Pretty Sinister Books

Readers of this blog know the term domestic suspense as a subgenre that encompasses crime novels usually set in sinister suburbs populated w...

THE STORY : This Is the House (1945) is a Caribbean homage to the British claustrophobic village murder mystery. The Jacques family live...

Sometime this blog has a confessional tone and today I’m surrendering again to a not-so-whispered admission. The “Badass Biddy” category (...

I'm on vacation in Washington state (first time here, only seven more states left and I'll have been to all 50 at least once) and di...

It's the story of a girl, a gun and a killer. The girl wants the gun, the killer wants the girl and his gun, and the police want all t...

Shelley Smith enters the territory usually visited by writers like Elisabeth Sanxay Holding and Charlotte Armstrong in this exploration of...

There is tendency lately among actors to refer to their career as "their craft." Fiction writers, too, have been known to call w...

Mrs. Roach stood there like a stock, with her hands clasped, thinking: Twenty-two pounds for a piece of useless bric-a-brac that could be s...