Stuart Mitchell

Jenny Morris's An Ethical Guide To Murder is a tale where the line between right and wrong is blurred  in both an entertaining and thought-provoking manner. As someone who runs…

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Grady Hendrix's Witchcraft for Wayward Girls is a spellbinding (of course) journey into the heart of darkness and defiance, set within the confines of a girls' school where the ordinary…

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I am a bit new to the party of Naomi Novik, so felt a good way to start was with this short story anthology."Buried Deep and Other Stories" is an…

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"A Divine Fury" by D.V. Bishop is the fourth novel in the Cesare Aldo series, people who have read this blog before may note I reviewed the third book Ritual…

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I’ve never read Sam Blake before but as she’s coming to my local crime fiction festival Granite Noir this felt as good a time as any to give her a…

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I’ve never done a book review tour before but when  Pan Macmillan, Tor gave me the opportunity to review the latest book in the Edinburgh Nights series by  T.L. Huchu,…

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In 1970, on the set of downmarket sitcom 'Floggit and Leggit', leading man Edward Lowe stumbles across the body of a woman, apparently the victim of a tragic drowning accident.…

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Oscar Wilde said  'Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.', and this kind of feels the case a little in this book, though mediocrity…

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They say don’t judge a book by its cover and the cover for Fathomfolk by Eliza Chan is a beautiful piece of art and the book inside is a strong…

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As a fan of a cozy mystery the idea of antiques and crime suited me to the ground and was part of what appealed to me. The fact that it…

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