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Gumshoe Book of the Month


  • August Book of the Month: The House At Devil's Neck

    August 25: The House At Devil's Neck

    August's BOM (Book of the Month) is Tom Mead's The House at Devil's Neck. It's the fourth volume in the Joseph Spector series of locked-room murder mysteries set in the...

  • March 25: Playing Dead

    Gumshoe Books of the Month March 25 is Playing Dead - an anthology of brand-new short stories by the members of The Detection Club.

  • February 25: The Frozen People

    Elly Griffiths is deservedly one of the most popular crime authors in the UK. Here is the start of a new series of time-travelling detectives: In The Frozen People, Cold...

  • January 25: Runaway Horses

    Translated here into English for the first time by Gregory Dowling, this 1983 novel was originally published in Italy under the title "Il Palio delle contrade morte". Runaway Horses is...

  • December 24: Guilty by Defintion

    Susie Dent's debut novel takes place in Oxford, the protagonists are a group of lexicographers who are trying to solve riddles posed to them by an anonymous letter writer. The...