Amidst the excitement of the World Cup, the South African writer Beverley Roos Muller found the time to review some novels set in Russia, mine included. I particularly liked “richly complex and located well within the tradition of Russian literature is A Razor Wrapped In Silk by R N Morris”. She went on to say …
I’ll be taking part in this event in Cambridge: Bodies in the Bookshop: 20th Anniversary Thursday 15th July at 6.00pm Heffers Bookshop, 20 Trinity Street Join us for a glass of wine and make murder your business at our annual crime fiction extravaganza for an evening free from speeches and readings – a great …
The murderer sent Dalgliesh an orange. The famous detective immediately knew where to look for the body.
The killer gave himself away by removing a small piece of flesh from beneath the victims’ noses. It was as good as a confession. “This is one for Marvell,” said the chief. Psychological profiler Dr Hank Marvell was not a universally popular figure among the officers of Scotland Yard’s Weird Crimes Unit (WCU). Perhaps it …
The dead man held an empty envelope. According to hearsay, the police found 20 identical letters on or around the corpse. Blame it on sloppy journalism. Or a mischievous Police Press Officer with a fondness for bad puns. “There was no letter in the envelope,” Sergeant Jan Serengeti told the crime reporter for the …