Mrs Pargeter (Melita to no one but her late husband) has always kept her distance from the shady businesses that her late husband was engaged in. The lifestyle it has set her up in is extremely com…

My Review: There’s a curse on ‘The Scottish Play’, or so the old acting tradition goes. Part of that curse is that if any of the actors in the play utter the play’s actual title, that the production will be doomed. It’s possible that tradition arose because The Tragedy of Macbeth has the potential to be a rather expensive play to put on, and a lot of theaters that did so went out of business because they were already in financial trouble and hoping that a splashy production would rescue them.

Severn House has scooped The Swan, a romantic suspense novel from the late New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood, to be completed by her son Bryan Garwood.

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Severn House, the genre fiction imprint of Canongate Books, has acquired Old Boys, New Rules, a queer, dark academia thriller by American trans author Alex Myers.

The publishing world gets a savage skewering in this intricate meta-mystery from Ripley (Mr. Campion’s Christmas). For years, Ro...

My Review: Sherlock Holmes’ investment in his experiment pays surprising dividends for the ‘Great Detective’ in this third book in the Irregular Detective series. The physician who has been misplaced is Holmes’ own friend and chronicler, Dr. John H. Watson, while Holmes is out of town and out of reach on some mysterious errand of his own - or more likely at the behest of his brother Mycroft.