SJ Parris
The latest news and comment on the author SJ Parris, the pseudonym of Stephanie Merritt
Thrillers of the month
The best recent thrillers – review roundupA Chicago cop causes ripples in a remote Irish village, and darkness descends on Dartmoor
Book clinic
Book clinic: can you recommend enjoyable historical fiction?From Sarah Dunant’s eye for detail to Peter Ackroyd’s ear for period dialogue, fiction anchored in the past varies in character
While You Sleep by Stephanie Merritt review – Broadchurch meets Anne Brontë
Merritt’s other life as historical crime novelist SJ Parris serves her well in this ghost story set on a Scottish island
Conspiracy by SJ Parris review – return of the Dominican detective
Monk-turned-spy Giordano Bruno has another murder to solve in an entertaining addition to the series
Forget 'serious' novels, I've turned to a life of crime
Murder mysteries, once looked down on, are now fit for the literary elite
