Books Read 2025

JANUARY 2025

Edited by Martin Edwards - Lessons in Crime. Crime Fiction Short Stories. (British Library Crime Classics republished 2024) These 15  stories are all set in schools or university and range from Arthur Conan Doyle to a surprise modern story from Jacqueline Wilson.

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air. Fiction. Short Stories (Originally Published 1955) Some of these stories are so short and very weird.

Elizabeth Anthony - Dramatic Murder. Crime Fiction ( Originally Published 1948. BLCC Reprint 2024) Playwright Dimpsie McCabe has invited all his friends from the theatre world to join him at his castle in Scotland for Christmas. However, the festivities haven't even started when two latecomers find Dimpsie dead amongst the branches of his Christmas tree that he had been decorating. The death seems to be accidental caused by faulty electrics but when another member of the party dies a few weeks later the police and some of Dimpsie's friends become suspicious.

Edited by Vaseem Khan - Murder in Harrogate; Stories inspired by the Theakston Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival. Crime Fiction. Short Stories. (Published 2024) All these stories are by modern crime writers and are set in Harrogate in Yorkshire. Some are set in the early part of the twentieth century and others are up to date.

Evie Woods - The Story Collector. Fiction (Published 2024) In 1911 Ireland, Anna, a young farm girl, volunteers to help an intriguing American visitor translate the old stories of the fairy world for his university studies. In 2011Sarah Harper boards a plane for the west coast of Ireland, she was supposed to be heading to her parents home in Boston - running away from sadness and a failed marriage.

Candace Robb -A Snake in the Barley. Crime Fiction. (Published 2024). The 15th in a series featuring Owen Archer and his Apothecary wife Lucy, and set in 14th Century York. Tom Merchet, taverner and good friend has been missing for five days, his wife Bess is frantic. As Owen hunts for clues, Bess visits the lodgings of a mystery woman that Tom was seen visiting. The hunt sends Owen to Beverly in Yorkshire.

Catherine Aird - Inheritance Tracks. Crime Fiction. (Published 2019) A Sloan and Crosby police mystery. Five strangers attend the solicitor, they don't know each other but it turns out they are all due to inherit from from a distant relative, but not until another relative is found. Then one of the group is murdered.

Ann Granger - Death on the Prowl. Crime Fiction (Published 2024) This is a Campbell and Carter mystery - the 8th in this police series. When the cleaners of a remote Cotswold cottage find a body the police aren't sure who is laying dead, but a neighbour identifies him as Jerry Harrison, the man who inherited the cottage from an aunt but never mixes with other people and lets out the cottage every summer. There are no witnesses and no information so it takes a while to get to the answer.

2 Older Crime Fiction ( 1 Short Stories)

2 Fiction ( 1 Short Stories)

4 Recently Written Crime Fiction (1 Short Stories)