What’s the perfect Mother’s Day gift? Well, you know what we’re going to say, don’t you? It’s got to be a cosy crime novel. And, when we looked into it, we discovered there are actually several such books that focus on Mother’s Day itself… While…
Sometimes, you’ve just got to write. Maybe other authors reading can relate. This is certainly how AM Belsey felt, and she’s the writer we’re going to meet today here on the site. On 19 March 2026, her debut crime novella – Six Mile Store –…
Translated by Larissa Kyzer — Icelandic children’s author Snæbjörn Arngrímsson makes a complete genre U-turn with his first crime novel, a psychological thriller with a unique premise and a distinctly unsettling perspective. Júlía, a freelance writer, is in a bit of a fix. During a…
Entries are now open for The Glencairn Glass Crime Short Story Competition and with a closing date of 31 March 2026, there’s no time to lose! The official glass for Scotch whisky, Glencairn is once again raising a toast to crime fiction with the return…
The truth is that we’re not yet sure exactly what pottery occurs in Cathy Ace’s new novel, The Case of the Petrified Potter. We don’t know if pots get smashed, baked in a kiln, or whether the pot calls the kettle black. But we do…
Wife of Esau successfully queues, one might say (6,5). As every cruciverbalist worth their salt knows, the answer to this and several other puzzles is ‘Judith Potts’, although extrapolating the how and why from the who is generally more complex than even the most cryptic…
