Pretty Sinister Books

THE STORY: Donald Chadmore, newly released from prison for an assault charge has come to his uncle Theodore's home in order to protect ...

Here we go again. Another puzzle laden "mystery" novel has arrived fresh from the pen of Uketsu and the English language translato...

There will always be Sherlock Holmes pastiches.  It is the one type of mystery novel homage that seems to be pouring out of an eternal fount...

For the past two years I've seen an intriguing spike in modern writers trying their hand at a retro GAD-style locked room or impossible ...

THE STORY:   Inspector Jack Grief and John Finnegan, a forensic chemist, join forces to solve two baffling poisoning murders that seem impos...

THE STORY:  Jonas Wright, owner of an engraving business in Chicago, is found stabbed in a locked room where he housed his collection of med...

Here is the continuation of my 2024 reading summation.  In looking over my reading log I see a predominance of newly translated Japanese det...

A dead body in a locked room, a house surrounded by undisturbed snow, all suspects have an alibi but one and yet it seems that one person co...

In Still Life with Pistol (1986), the second outing featuring ex-police detective Richard Patton and his paramour Amelia, we find the two t...

THE STORY: Portrait painter Elton Cleeves sees a vision of his nephew he before the man is found dead. Cleeve’s vision showed his nephew g...

Can a murder mystery about a locked room with a broken window still be considered as an impossible crime? The bloody shotgun murder in The ...