Author of the Cassandra James series and of standalone suspense novels.
About Christine Poulson
I was a respectable academic, lecturing in art history at a Cambridge college before I turned to crime. My first three novels featured literary historian and accidental sleuth, Cassandra James, and my most recent is Invisible, a standalone suspense novel.
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A Reading Life
Crime writer Christine Poulson's blog on reading, writing, and all things literary
More GA crime and a present day gem
Villanous Saltpetre (1962) is the latest Clifford Witting to be released by the splendid Galileo Publishers. In 1930, Guy Brangley, an unsuccessful playwright, stages his own disappearance as a publicity stunt.Twenty-five years later he really does disappear. His body is recovered from the sea, three days after he was last seen by anyone. Was this […]
The Count of Monte Cristo
I asked my friend Moira over at Clothes in Books if she would read Dumas’s novel with a view to our both blogging about it. This is my offering and I can’t wait to read hers. And now here it is: https://clothesinbooks.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-count-of-monte-cristo-will-get-you.html I must have eight or maybe nine when I first read The Count […]
REVIEWS
‘Invisible’s got an excellent, tense plot, shifting between the two main characters, with a good number of surprises along the way. Poulson always has great, strong women characters, with real lives and feelings . . . I liked the fact that the depictions of violence and injury were realistic without being over-detailed or gloating . . . It was a pleasure to find a book that did the excitement, the jeopardy and the thrills without putting off this reader . . . a very good read for anyone.’
- CLOTHES IN BOOKS‘This is splendidly written fare from the reliable Poulson, written with keen psychological insight.’ [Invisible]
- CRIMETIME‘Invisible is a great thriller. I can’t say too much more about the plot because the twists and turns are the whole point of reading a book that wrong foots the reader at every turn . . . Christine Poulson kept me reading by giving out just enough information to intrigue and puzzle so that I had to read just one more chapter. That’s why, in the end, I just dropped everything else and read the last half of Invisible in one sitting.’
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