28 February 2026
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Recently Jane has watched several episodes of a detective series called Patience (2025-). A detective is given invaluable hints in a case by someone who works in the records department, a neurodivergent woman called Patience. Tonight we settled down to … Continue reading
15 July 2025
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I imagine it feels like a bit of a risk for an established author to start on a new series with a new central character. Of course, while readers often like to spend more time with “familiar faces”, sometimes a … Continue reading
28 May 2025
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Jane and I have just finished off the third series of The Chelsea Detective, which was released last week on the U streaming service in the UK. It is set in Chelsea, a relatively affluent area of London and the … Continue reading
21 November 2021
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Although I found the Inspector Dalgliesh novels by the late P.D. James sometimes took odd twists and leap in their plots I found them generally highly enjoyable. They were highly literate crime fiction and a featured a highly literate protagonist … Continue reading
28 January 2020
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iZombie (2015-2019) is an interesting blend of lab-led detective work and zombies. The lead character is Olivia Moore, a medical student who gets turned into a zombie but manages to sate her hunger for brains (ie. one of the classic … Continue reading
14 September 2017
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Hounds of the Underworld, by Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, starts at a crime scene although one at which the expected body is strangely absent. It is set in New Zealand of the 2040s, although the characteristics of this imagined … Continue reading
4 April 2013
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Jane and I recently caught up with the Easter special edition of Jonathan Creek. This detective drama, featuring Alan Davies as the eponymous hero, began in 1997 but has subsisted with occasional programmes in recent years and I think it … Continue reading
25 June 2012
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Ecopsychology? I had not heard of that field before but then it turns out this is the vocation of the author as well as her fictional protagonist, the aptly named Dr Esmerelda Green. That puts it in the genre of … Continue reading