It is all so complicated that the detective decides that it will be the final case he investigates

A memoir of two immigrants with very different backgrounds.

A delayed ship, drug smuggling, a romance and murder

A girl has died and Sergeant Cluff is not sure that the murderer is the obvious suspect

A new reading challenge for June

I review the 25 books I have read this Spring for this challenge

Portrait of a Murderer by Anne Meredith is published as part of the series of reprints by the British Library. It is advertised as a Christmas Crime Story, and it is true that the murder takes place during the festive season, but it is nowhere as cosy a story as you might expect from the … Continue reading A family murder at Christmas

Hope is reviewing her life and some of the dramatic events she has been part of.

The author explores the land of his birth

A local newspaper editor finds a body and is faced with a number of puzzling events in the area.