News Review: Murder, mystery and Melanesian realpolitik August 26, 2025 / September 2, 2025 by Samantha By Gordon Peake Crime fiction is abidingly popular. Why is that so? Partly the reason is the obvious fun of working out a puzzle, but fans of the genre and literary critics often advance another reason: such books work as lenses to examine wider truths in a light-touch but revealing way. Matt Francis’s delightful Murder […] Read more » crime fiction Vanuatu