It is impossible to separate the fictional character of British cop Jane Tennison from the actor Helen Mirren who played her so brilliantly in the Prime Suspect series. And from the first pages of author Lynda La Plante’s latest Jane Tennison book, The Dirty Dozen, Mirren is instantly conjured up by…
A bumper crime spree with some new arresting new releases … and a chat with John Grisham
There are rich pickings on the crime scene with Graeme Blundell, one of my favourite followers of crime fiction, sleuthing out four new offerings (should that be a massacre of crime novels?) in his popular Crime File. The latest from Garry Disher, who has been producing literary thrillers for decades, is…