My reviewing for rte means that I can for the first time provide a reasonably contemporary list of the best new mysteries which I read in 2008 - and as I love a list here goes.....1) Reginald Hill - A Cure for All Diseases2) Laura Wilson - Strat

It must have been back in March or April that we went to hear Sara Paretsky speak in the somewhat unlikely surroundings of Sandwell Town Hall (it was Sandwell Libraries who have an excellent programme who had arranged the visit). Paretsky was speakin

 I was surprised and delighted to be invited to join the reviewers at the mystery fiction review site Reviewing the Evidence (http://www.reviewingtheevidence.com/) by the site's editor, a true expert , Sharon Wheeler. The 'job' invol

 I spent the weekend of 17th to 19th August at the annual St Hilda's Mystery and Crime Weekend in Oxford. This is the third time I have attended - my report on the

 I have been attending a local Mystery reading group - the Erdington Crime Fiction Reading Group - at my local library for a few months now. This is partly as a result of Mark (my therapist/analyst) encouraging me to participate in more 'rea

Another very belated enrty this time on the subject of the St Hilda's Crime and Mystery Conference 2006, which was held, as usual, at St Hilda's College, Oxford in August 2006.

 The following is a reproduction of something I wrote for the Yahoo Reading Group BritishMysteries (which can be found at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/britishmysteries/ ) and is concerned with a persona scheme for the classifiction of mystery nove