A novel should be more than just an artifact of imagination; it should be an act of revelation. That’s no less true of workaday genre books than it is of the most deliberately literary works: What distinguishes a good Michael Crichton or John Grisham...
Andrew Wilson’s I Saw Him Die (Simon and Schuster, 2021, £8.99) is the fourth of Wilson’s detective novels featuring Agatha Christie and written from her perspective. Set in Scotland in 1930 at Dallach Lodge near a ruined castle, the plot hinges on t...