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Peter Guttridge

Peter Guttridge is the Observer's crime fiction critic, the film critic for Shots magazine and the RLF Writing Fellow at Southampton University, For the second year he is one of the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger judges for the best foreign crime fiction.

October 2022

  • Peter Robinson in Gotland, Sweden - 17 Aug 2016<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Ibl/REX/Shutterstock (6431789b) Peter Robinson, Canadian crime writer Peter Robinson in Gotland, Sweden - 17 Aug 2016

    Peter Robinson obituary

    Author of the Inspector Alan Banks series and welcome presence at crime fiction festivals around the world

February 2013

  • Jackal's Share, Book

    The Jackal's Share by Chris Morgan Jones – review

    A private eye who despises the wealthy is employed by a billionaire in a memorable thriller, writes Peter Guttridge

20 September 2009

  • The Complaints by Ian Rankin

    Excellent, says Peter Guttridge. Rankin's Inspector Malcolm Fox is a match for Rebus

  • Trust Me by Peter Leonard

    The plot is smooth and Leonard conveys the menace with assured ease, says Peter Guttridge

  • Fever of the Bone by Val McDermid

    McDermid remains unrivalled at yoking chilling scenarios to a pulsing narrative, says Peter Guttridge

5 April 2009

  • The Manual of Detection

    Review: The Manual of Detection by Jedediah Berry
    Berry's debut detective novel is indeed imaginative, fantastical, sometimes inexplicable, labyrinthine and ingenious

  • My Soul to Take

    Review: My Soul to Take by Yrsa Sigurdardóttir
    This is both frightening and funny - a terrific trick if you can pull it off, says Peter Guttridge

  • War Damage

    Review: War Damage by Elizabeth Wilson
    Wilson presents a nation struggling to get back on its feet, but she does not overdo the period detail, writes Peter Guttridge

August 2008

  • You can take the man out of Big Easy

    Review: Autumn crime roundup
    James Lee Burke transports Dave Robicheaux to Montana, while Kate Atkinson and Barbara Vine are also on sizzling form says Peter Guttridge

May 2008

  • Murder most foul

    A killing that enthralled Britain is revisited to fine effect in Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, says Peter Guttridge

April 2008

  • On the way from Hope to Despair

    Peter Guttridge on Nothing to Lose | Blood From Stone | Can't Let Go | Savage Night | An Expert in Murder

March 2008

  • Nothing's shipshape in this Bristol

  • In pursuit of a Russian Ripper

    Peter Guttridge

February 2008

  • Evil comes in many guises

    Stephen King's Duma Key and John Grisham's The Appeal both have truly terrifying writers, says Peter Guttridge

January 2008

  • Why a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

  • Let's play corpse and robbers

December 2007

  • The murder rate just goes up and up

    ... and that was good news in a year when violent death made for riveting reading from writers both old and new

November 2007

  • Elegy for the helpless as Katrina's ill wind blows

    James Lee Burke is at the top of his form as his veteran detective Dave Robicheaux in The Tin Roof Blowdown tries to bring order to the Big Easy, says Peter Guttridge

October 2007

  • Elmore seems to have lost the plot

    Peter Guttridge on Up in Honey's Room | Down River | Silence | Power Play | Conned

September 2007

  • Rebus's last case?

    Peter Guttridge on Exit Music | Beneath the Bleeding | King of Swords | Last Light | The Last Card

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