Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: William Power, lawyer, confides with his married novelist friends, Vincie and Penny Mercer, on an unusual murder involving wha...

Here’s a list for you. Tell me if you know what they all have in common. Heart to Heart by Boileau-Narcejac Withered Murder by Antho...

The contrast between Francis Vivian's early detective novels and his final two is rather striking. While the early novel show Gordon K...

THE STORY: Horror of horrors! Someone has done in poor Mildred Manchester's pets. First her beloved budgerigar Sweetums and then he...

Basil Thomson is a writer I had no interest in reading until I came across TomCat’s review of The Case of Naomi Clynes (1934), the third...

Time for a rerun.  When I first posted this review back in 2011 on The Poison Fly Murders I received no comments. That's probably beca...

I have been checking for the past two weeks to let you know when Dead Man's Quarry would be available for purchase again in paperback...

A group of art students touring the Hereford-Wales border country on bicycle lose one of their party on a simple ride down a hill and begi...