Reviews

‘My favourite type of mystery, suspenseful, and where everyone is not what they appear . . . Christine is great at creating atmosphere . . . she evokes the magic of the stage, and her characters [have] a past to be uncovered before the mystery is solved.’ [Stage Fright]

- Lizzie Hayes, MYSTERY WOMEN

Two new crime novels

Posted on Nov 10, 2015 in Dolores Gordon-Smith, Quentin Bates, Ragnar Jonasson, Snow Blind, Snowblind, The Chessman | 2 Comments

A few post ago I wrote about reducing my TBR pile by culling those novels that I decided not to read. Well, here are a couple that made the cut. I read both on my e-reader, where unread books were also accumulating: fatally easy to buy them and just as easy to forget you’ve got them. I’m […]

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Interview with crime writer Dolores Gordon-Smith

Posted on Feb 9, 2015 in After the Exhibition, Dolores Gordon-Smith, Jack Haldean, The Chessman | 4 Comments

Dolores Gordon-Smith is my guest today. Dolores is great company and am always glad to run into her. We first met when she was on a panel that I chaired at Crimefest. That was also when I first encountered her series featuring Jack Haldean, set  in the 1920s and drawing on the Golden Age tradition of […]

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