Crime Watch

MURDER AT THE MICROPHONE by Freda Bream (Ulverscroft, 1995) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson During a radio broadcast Lance Temple suddenly...

EXECUTION LULLABY by Nigel Latta (HarperCollins, 2000) Reviewed by Craig Sisterson Before New Zealand psychologist Nigel Latta became ...

There are some wonderful old crime, mystery, and thriller tales that have fallen by the wayside over the years, no longer remaining in pri...

SLEEPERS CAN KILL by Simon Jay (Collins, 1968) The story: Members of a communist group meet once on an Italian beach as the war is endin...

THE FEARED AND THE FEARLESS by Guthrie Wilson (Corgi, 1956) The blurb: The story starts in a British post behind the German lines in ...

LIGHT SPEED by David Frame (Quoin Press, 1996) The blurb: Who killed the lovely Claire Bartlett, New Zealand's youngest, prettiest, ...

I love browsing through secondhand bookstores. I'm always on the look out for out-of-print and hard-to-find Kiwi crime novels, and oth...

Now that we've passed the two year blogosphere anniversary of Crime Watch , I thought it might be a good time to introduce a new recurr...

Last year I shared how British crime writer and renowned crime commentator Mike Ripley was part of a project to reissue classic Britis...

For my second go around at the Crime Fiction Alphabet (read my 2010 posts here ), I've set myself the challenging task of focusing not o...

For my second go around at the Crime Fiction Alphabet (read my 2010 posts here ), I've set myself the challenging task of focusing not o...

Over the past couple of years I've been keeping a keen eye out for any New Zealand-written crime, mystery or thriller fiction, both cont...

Now fully caught up in relation to the fantastic Crime Fiction Alphabet series created and run by my fellow Anzac and book blogger Kerrie at...

As regular readers of this blog will know, over the past year or more, I've been gradually building up a collection of out-of-print and ...

I've been scouring the secondhand bookshops and dealers again recently, and have stumbled across some more intriguing out-of-print and h...

As I've noted before here on Crime Watch, including with my 'Kiwi crime bookshelves' photo back in July, I've found myself c...

As I've noted before here on Crime Watch, including with my 'Kiwi crime bookshelves' photo back in July (see right), I've f...

As I noted last month , and some of you would no doubt have already been aware of, for some time now I have been gradually searching out les...

As I noted last week , and some of you would no doubt have already been aware of, for some time now I have been gradually searching out less...

As many of you know, I've been quietly building up information on New Zealand crime, mystery and thriller writers - both those in print ...