Author of the Cassandra James series and of standalone suspense novels.
About Christine Poulson
I was a respectable academic, lecturing in art history at a Cambridge college before I turned to crime. My first three novels featured literary historian and accidental sleuth, Cassandra James, and my most recent is Invisible, a standalone suspense novel.
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A Reading Life
Crime writer Christine Poulson's blog on reading, writing, and all things literary
The Count of Monte Cristo
I asked my friend Moira over at Clothes in Books if she would read Dumas’s novel with a view to our both blogging about it. This is my offering and I can’t wait to read hers. And now here it is: https://clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-count-of-monte-cristo-will-get-you.html I must have eight or maybe nine when I first read The Count […]
I Was a Stranger
Every now and then I come across a book that I go on thinking about long after I have finished it and I know I will return again and again. One such book is I Was A Stranger (1977) by John Hackett. In September 1944 he was commander of the 4th Parachute Brigade and at […]
REVIEWS
‘Invisible’s got an excellent, tense plot, shifting between the two main characters, with a good number of surprises along the way. Poulson always has great, strong women characters, with real lives and feelings . . . I liked the fact that the depictions of violence and injury were realistic without being over-detailed or gloating . . . It was a pleasure to find a book that did the excitement, the jeopardy and the thrills without putting off this reader . . . a very good read for anyone.’
- CLOTHES IN BOOKS‘This is splendidly written fare from the reliable Poulson, written with keen psychological insight.’ [Invisible]
- CRIMETIME‘Invisible is a great thriller. I can’t say too much more about the plot because the twists and turns are the whole point of reading a book that wrong foots the reader at every turn . . . Christine Poulson kept me reading by giving out just enough information to intrigue and puzzle so that I had to read just one more chapter. That’s why, in the end, I just dropped everything else and read the last half of Invisible in one sitting.’
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