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The True Mystery in James Comey’s Crime Novel June 02, 2023

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...

Murders for Late November November 26, 2021

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...