Reviews

‘I opened this book with high expectations. They have been admirably fulfilled.  Here we have a stand alone thriller about two lonely people who pursue a relationship of monthly weekends together in remote spots.  Suddenly one of these two fails to get to the rendezvous-vous and the other realises how very limited her knowledge of her  companion is . . . Gradually the reader pieces together some of the facts as an atmosphere of rising tension envelops everything. The intelligent way Jay, Lisa and others plan their actions is enjoyable and the suspense of the tale is palpable.’

- MYSTERY PEOPLE

Ink and Daggers

Posted on Sep 1, 2023 in Christopher Fowler, Ink and Daggers, Maxim Jakubowski | 3 Comments

It is always nice to get back from holiday and find that a book has arrived in the post and it’s even nicer when the book contains one of your own short stories. I’ve written elsewhere on my website about how much I enjoy the short story form. It is possible be playful and experimental […]

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Writing a locked room mystery

Posted on Jul 1, 2020 in 'The House in Goblin Wood', John Dickson Carr, Maxim Jakubowski, The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths | 4 Comments

I love a locked room mystery, so when the call came for contributions to an anthology of stories featuring impossible crimes, I jumped at the chance to write one of my own. My story, ‘The House by the Thames,’ is by way of being a tribute to the master of locked room mysteries, John Dickson […]

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Does it matter if you guess the ending?

Posted on Jun 8, 2016 in After The Crash, Barry Forshaw, guessing the ending, Joan Smith, Maxim Jakubowski, Michel Bussi, plot twists | 8 Comments

Joan Smith thought After the Crash was ‘one of the most remarkable books I’ve read in a long time’, Maxim Jakubowski called it ‘a compulsive page-turner’ and Barry Forshaw said ‘Michel Bussi knows exactly how to keep the reader turning page after page.’ So I was expecting great things, and maybe that was the part […]

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The Adventures of Moriarty

Posted on Oct 13, 2015 in Maxim Jakubowski, The Adventures of Moriarty | No Comments

I always enjoy writing a story to a brief and ‘The Mystery of the Missing Child’ was no exception. I’d been thinking for a while that I’d like to try my hand at a Sherlock Holmes pastiche. So when Maxim Jakubowski put out a call for stories featuring Holmes’s arch-enemy, Professor Moriarty, ‘the Napoleon of […]

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