New review - it's cosy time with Murder By The Book by @mrgdavies.bsky.social #BookSky #CosyMystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/22/m...

A classic mystery that you need to read before someone tells you why it’s a classic… #ClassicMystery #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/02/21/t...

A book that's impossible to find but, good news - it's okay, but not that brilliant... #BookSky #ClassicMystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/19/w...

A really interesting short story collection from members of @thecwa.bsky.social edited by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social #Mystery #ShortStories #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/02/18/t...

2025’s Dream Reprint - Let's Get Voting crossexaminingcrime.com/2026/02/15/2... - courtesy of Kate at Cross Examining Crime #BookSky #ClassicMystery #Reprint

A little favour for my blogging buddy Kate with a round-up of the candidates for the Dream Reprint Poll - coming soon to her blog #classiccrime #BookSky #Reprint classicmystery.blog/2026/02/10/d...

Out now - the latest from the wonderful @kateellisauthor.bsky.social . The return after ten years of Joe Plantagenet in a marvellously twisty and spooky mystery from @littlebrown.bsky.social #BookSky #Mystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/09/k...

About 30% through this book now and laughing out loud. #booksky

Time for the Dream Classic Crime Reprint nominations - here's mine #BookSky #ClassicCrime #ClassicMystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/07/d...

Out now from @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social and @hodderfiction.bsky.social - the sixth Malabar House mystery, The Edge Of Darkness #BookSky #Mystery #HistoryMystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/05/t...

Trigger Warning - in this one, the dog dies! That's not a spoiler, is it? #BookSky #SherlockHolmes #Mystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/02/t...

Yesterday I went to the fabulous @stockportnoir.bsky.social book festival in, well, Stockport and I thought I'd share the experience as best I can. #BookSky #CrimeFiction #Mystery classicmystery.blog/2026/02/01/s...

Book Of The Month time - and quite an easy win this month for @robparkerauthor.bsky.social #BookTwitter #Puzzly #BookOfTheMonth classicmystery.blog/2026/02/01/t...

"A proper mystery with interesting and varied characters, and Ace the border collie is absolutely fabulous! Another entertaining read in one of my favourite new series" Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective Takes the Lead from The Puzzle Doctor:

Today's post sees me take a look at The Wicked Go To Hell, a short novel by Frédéric Dard. The concept: two men are put in a jail cell together. One of them is a dangerous spy, the other an undercover cop. But which is which? ⚡️📚

Another first-rate canine murder mystery in one of my favourite new series from @antonyjohnston.bsky.social and @allisonandbusby.bsky.social #Mystery #BorderCollie #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/01/29/t...

Out now from the @britishlibrary.bsky.social Crime Classics range - Sky High by Michael Gilbert, with an introduction by @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social #BookSky #CrimeClassics classicmystery.blog/2026/01/24/s...

Out now from @robparkerauthor.bsky.social, the follow-up to the equally impressive The Troubled Deep, the absolutely first rate Forbidden Waters #Thriller #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/01/16/f...

It was my December Book of the Month but it's finally out in the wild for anyone to read! The latest from @robthor.bsky.social and @hqstories.bsky.social and the only Murder Club that matters! #BookSky #Mystery classicmystery.blog/2025/12/11/t...

A fun collection of short stories from the master of the locked room mystery #JohnDicksonCarr #BookSky #LockedRoom classicmystery.blog/2026/01/12/t...

"A comedy of manners with the occasional murder." Kind of wish it had been the other way round... #Mystery #ClassicCrime #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/01/10/t...

Many thanks to @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social books for the tip on this author - a really interesting read and I hope I'll find more from the author in the future #Mystery #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/01/05/t...

A masterpiece of suspense... #Mystery #ClassicCrime #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2026/01/04/t...

The Black Archive is a series of books which take an in-depth look at individual Doctor Who stories.

First review of the year and Perry Mason finds himself in deep water... #BookSky #Mystery #PerryMason classicmystery.blog/2026/01/02/t...

Here we go... it's time for my Review of the Year on the blog... #BookSky #Mystery classicmystery.blog/2025/12/31/r...

The Puzzly is a day early this month to make way for my Review of 2025 and luckily @robthor.bsky.social made it very, very easy to choose the winner classicmystery.blog/2025/12/30/t...

My thoughts on the @deathinparadise Christmas special - and series 14 as I forgot to do it at the time. Sorry! classicmystery.blog/2025/12/30/d...

A seasonal collection of short stories from @britishlibrary.bsky.social and @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social - just not this season... #ClassicCrime #BookSky #ShortStories classicmystery.blog/2025/12/29/c...

An old unreprinted title that is very hard to find - and probably not worth the effort #BookSky #ClassicMystery #JohnRhode classicmystery.blog/2025/12/29/t...

Book Three in one of my favourite series - The Black Dove by Steve Hockensmith classicmystery.blog/2025/12/28/t...

Another children's mystery - an unread title from a series that I loved, but, alas, it's not a very good one... #BookSky #ThreeInvestigators classicmystery.blog/2025/12/27/t...

It's a disappearing and re-appearing body mystery set on a pirate ship - what more could you ask for? The fourth Montgomery Bonbon mystery from @misterabk.bsky.social #BookSky #Mysteries #MinorOffences classicmystery.blog/2025/12/22/m...

🥳 Here’s to 15 years of amazing blogging, and many more to come @puzzledoctor.bsky.social ! 📚✨ Forty Brian Flynn books back in the spotlight, with brilliant new introductions. Keep making the literary world a brighter, funnier, and more brilliant place. 🙏🥰 classicmystery.blog/2025/12/20/f...

Happy Blogday To Me! Fifteen years ago today I started my mutterings about mystery novels - so here are some thoughts for the next fifteen years… #mystery #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2025/12/20/f...

A day early with the Reprint Of The Year nomination, but it's the Blogiversary tomorrow and I've got a plan... #BrianFlynn @deanstpress.bsky.social #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2025/12/19/b...

The best mystery movie in years... @rianjohnson.bsky.social #WakeUpDeadMan classicmystery.blog/2025/12/18/p...

On the Twelfth Day Of Christmas... if you're lucky, your true love will bring you these, my top twelve Christmas mysteries... @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social @michaeljecksauthor.bsky.social @andreinacordani.bsky.social @chrismcgeorge.bsky.social #Mystery #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2025/12/17/f...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

Time to kick off the Classic Crime Reprint Of The Year awards with my first nomination #BookSky #Mystery #Honkaku classicmystery.blog/2025/12/13/m...

I hate to tease my followers but you have to read this masterfully crafted mystery by @robthor.bsky.social from @hqstories.bsky.social - but you'll have to wait a month before it's available to buy. I just couldn't wait... #BookSky #MarlowMurderClub classicmystery.blog/2025/12/11/t...

Just finished The Mysterious Affair Of Judith Potts, the fifth Marlow Murder Club book and I can confirm that @robthor.bsky.social is a devious and clever so-and-so. But you'll have to wait a month before it's on sale... lnk.to/TheMysteriou...

Book Of The Month time on the blog for November... Congrats to @mossmontmomery ... classicmystery.blog/2025/11/30/t... #BookSky #Mystery #BookOfTheMonth

Some recommendations for Christmas mysteries included in this review... but is this one of them? #BookSky #ChristmasMystery classicmystery.blog/2025/11/21/m...

New review: the not-very-Christmassy The Dead Of Winter by S J Parris #BookSky #History classicmystery.blog/2025/11/17/t...

Don't be fooled by the pblisher's claims to be a locked room mystery - it's not - but this is a fun Christmas mystery from F L Everett #Mystery #BookSky classicmystery.blog/2025/11/15/m...

Amused that Trump's lawyers really sent the legal letter to: BBC Television Centre, London W12 8QT. I wonder if they included a self addressed envelope for a reply and called 018118055 to confirm receipt. www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/tru...

"This just feels so fresh. Clear, distinct suspects, loads of secrets hiding under the surface… a perfect stocking filler" Great review of The Dog Sitter Detective's Christmas Tail 🎄🐶🔍 from The Puzzle Doctor:

It's dog sitting time again with a dead spy in a snowed-in house. Cracking new mystery from @antonyjohnston.bsky.social and @allisonandbusby.bsky.social #BookSky #Mystery classicmystery.blog/2025/11/11/t...

After an unintentional thirteen year break from the series, I'm back in Shetland with Cass Lynch and Marsali Taylor #BookSky #Mystery #Shetland classicmystery.blog/2025/11/09/b...