2021 saw the publication of two so-called hybrid mysteries , Yamaguchi Masaya's Ikeru shikabane no shi ( Death of the Living Dead , 198...

The first post to appear on this blog in 2020 was a review of a very unorthodox Japanese crime novel, Hirakasete itadaki k ō ei desu ( The ...

Back in late 2018, Ho-Ling Wong posted an intriguing review of Masahiro Imamura's debut novel, Shijinso no satsujin ( The Murders in ...

Jay Clarke is a Canadian lawyer specialized in criminal insanity and a novelist who writes under the pseudonym of " Michael Slade ,&...

" There he lies, white and cold in death ." - The Monster (Mary Shelley's Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus , 18...