Pretty Sinister Books

Who Is Maud Dixon? by Alexandra Andrews Little, Brown & Co. ISBN: 978-0316500319 336 pp. $28 Publication date: March 2, 2021 I imagin...

Publishing executive Markham Grant has been sent to Norway to secure the rights to the memoir of renowned resistance fighter Tor Holberg.  W...

Police procedural gives way to domestic melodrama then morphs into a full blown cat-and-mouse thriller in No Questions Asked (1949), Edna S...

This is the year I’ve been reading books by several writers who I’ve known about for a long time and have been dancing around the periphery ...

THE STORY:   What seems to be a simple job of finding a university student who took an extended leave turns into an adventure worthy of a ...

UK edition (Hodder & Stoughton, 1958) THE STORY: Con artist and thief Victor Clyde (aka Francis Edwards) sees in Jessie Hewitt an e...

THE STORY: The Knapp sisters are planning to murder their domineering physician father who is hoping to marry his much younger nurse assi...

"Well written, but most unpleasant tale" -- penciled remark by a Previous Owner left in my copy of Dead Reckoning THE STORY: ...

While browsing in a Barnes & Noble bookstore (one of three left in the entire city of Chicago) I came across Cat Out of Hell (2014) by ...

UK 1st edition (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1955) Illustration by collectible DJ artist Biro THE STORY: Alistair Casson Duker (Casson to ...

Edith Talbot has fled Paris and her ex-husband to return to New York for a well deserved break. She takes up residence in the Hotel Majestic...