In first place for the year of our lord 2022, winner of the coveted prize, the Sulari Gentill Award, is 'Blackstone Fell' by Martin Edwards. We talk a lot on this show about the way that murder mystery has evolved over the centuries, nay millennia, but I haven’t read a piece of detective fiction in a long while that manages to feel so very familiar while also taking me by surprise at every twist and turn of the deep-flowing river at the centre of Blackstone Fell. This is the third book in the Rachel Savernake series, after Gallows Court and Mortmain Hall, and this detective is but the latest in a prestigious career for Edwards.