Howard Linskey

2 months ago | wwwshotsmagcouk.blogspot.com | Howard Linskey |Ayo Onatade

The man at the heart of my Elizabethan murder mystery was a writer and an actor but was he also a spy? William Shakespeare was a playwright, the world’s most famous in fact, and he was also an actor who appeared in his own plays and others. That is a matter of record. We also know that he was a businessman, a shareholder in a theatrical company and the Globe theatre and had investments in all manner of things, including land. He may even have been a money lender. But was he also a spy?

Dec 1, 2024 | literaryreview.co.uk | Belinda Bauer |Sam Blake |Chris Hammer |Howard Linskey

December 2024/January 2025 Crime Round-up My Crime Novels of the Year Knife Skills for Beginnersby Orlando Murrin (Bantam Press). For fans of cosy crime with an edge, this novel is wickedly entertaining. Set in an upmarket cookery school in Belgravia, it includes among the murders some really helpful culinary advice by a chef who knows his stuff. The Long Waterby Stef Penney (Quercus). Stef Penney’s impressive and beautifully written The Long Water is set in a small community in the Norwegian...