Murder
Murders for August
Locked rooms and dark churchyards
Riding for murdered women
Have some respect for female spaces
Lifeless life of a Technicolor titan
Ronan McGreevy plumbs new depths with his pitiful accounting of a great man’s death
Murders for May
A deadly mixture of reprints and new releases
Murders for March
Parties and post boxes make beguiling settings for this month’s mysteries
Serial killer self-ID
Men who kill women shouldn’t get to define themselves
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Murders for January
While away the winter with would-be classics
Murders for early December
Pass the time by these passages into times present and past: post-war to Covid-era
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not