Untouchable by Mike Lawson

Untouchable by Mike Lawson

Run, don’t walk, to your nearest bookstore and grab a copy of the latest Joe DeMarco adventure, which is out today. Untouchable by Mike Lawson (Atlantic Monthly Press, February 2025) is the 18th title in a consistently fine political thriller series that began 20...
Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense by Ethel Lina White

Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense by Ethel Lina White

Crippen & Landru Publishers (C&L) produces single-author short story collections, both current crime fiction authors and uncollected stories by mystery and detective writers of the past. It’s the latter that I find most valuable, since so many authors...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

Friday’s Forgotten Book: The Unfinished Clue by Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer (1902–1974) has long been one of my all-time favorite authors. Well known for creating the Regency romance, she also produced mysteries and historical fiction. She considered a trilogy about the House of Lancaster her master work but she was unable to...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

Friday’s Forgotten Book: Coffin, Scarcely Used by Colin Watson

Colin Watson (1920–1983) was an English journalist and author of a successful detective series set in the prosperous market and port town of Flaxborough in East Anglia. Flaxborough is a fictionalized version of the town of Boston in Lincolnshire where Watson was a...
Friday’s Forgotten Book: It’s Her Own Funeral by Carol Carnac

Friday’s Forgotten Book: It’s Her Own Funeral by Carol Carnac

Perhaps of all the obscure authors brought back into the public’s eye by the British Library in its Crime Classics series, I enjoy the work of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) the most. Her 70 plus mysteries, originally published between 1931 and 1959, are immensely...