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Twilight Falls (2023) by Juneau Black
Today I have decided to return to the Shady Hollow series, one which is occupied by anthropomorphic animals. Our series sleuth is Vera Vixen, a local reporter, who is remarkably good at sniffing out a...
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Murder to Welcome Her (1957) by Margot Neville
Margot Neville was the penname of the Australian sister writing duo, Margot Goyder and Anne Neville Goyder Joske. They wrote 22 crime novels, most of which feature Inspector Grogan and Sergeant...
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The Other Devil’s Name (1986) by Elizabeth Ferrars
This is the fourth (out of eight) mysteries featuring amateur sleuth and retired botany professor, Andrew Basnett. To date, including this one, I have read five, the other titles being: Something...
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Lee Goldberg’s Mr Monk Series: A Ranked List
Over the past 20 or so months I have been working my way through Lee Goldberg’s Adrian Monk mysteries. In January I finally completed the series and naturally, when one has done this, a ranked list...
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#MurderEveryMonday Roundup: February 2025
Earlier in February I decided to start doing monthly roundups for #MurderEveryMonday, a book cover sharing meme over on Twitter (a.k.a. X) and Instagram. As the hashtag suggests it takes place on a...
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Murder Calling (1934) by David Whitelaw
Whitelaw is an author that I tried for the first time last May, when I reviewed Mystery at Furze Acres (1929), a book which induced a fair bit of eye rolling. My eyes having now recovered I decided to...
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The Spirit of Australia: The Crime Fiction of Arthur W. Upfield (1988) by Ray...
This is a book that I have had my eye on for some time, so I was pleased when I received this as a Valentine’s Day gift. Upfield is not an author I have read much by, only four of his mysteries: Wings...
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Book of the Month: February 2025
February fairly whizzed by, so I was surprised to see that I had managed 18 blog posts and 12 reads. Two of these posts were for ranked lists: British Library Crime Classics short story collections...
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The Cambridge Murders (1945) by Dilwyn Rees (a.k.a. Glyn Daniel)
Rees was an academic and archaeologist, a background which permeates his mystery writing. During WW2 he worked in the RAF’s air photo unit, where his skills in interpreting aerial photographs of...
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Murder Isn’t Cricket (1946) by E. & M. A. Radford
Today’s review is for the fourth book in the Radford’s Dr Manson series and through no planning of my own, it is also my fourth read by them. The other three reads have been: Who Killed Dick...
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The President’s Mystery Plot (1967) by Franklin Delano Roosevelt et al.
Et al.? Yes, whilst the 32nd American president may have come up with some of the original idea for this story, it was in fact written by several crime fiction writers, namely: Rupert Hughes, Samuel...
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