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A great piece on Salon.com highlighting the relationship between the two Bs, Bibi and Barack cites my new ebook PSYCHOBIBI: Who is Israel’s Prime Minister and Why Does He Want to Fail?: “Netanyahu’s often clumsy outreach to the United States and his image, in Israel, as a complex figure with a dark and possibly unfathomable [...]

The Jerusalem Post highlights the investigation by my new alternative news venture DeltaFourth into Yasser Arafat’s murder. JPost writer Rachel Marder interviews me about The Murder of Yasser Arafat and writes that Matthew Kalman and I have a “compelling explanation [for] the 75-year-old leader’s death near Paris in November 2004 based on years of reporting [...]

The Murder of Yasser Arafat, the first book from my new alternative journalism venture DeltaFourth, is “racy and provocative,” according to a write-up in The Times of Israel.  Elhanan Miller, the news site’s Arab affairs correspondent, calls the book “quite the page turner.” Miller also picks up on something very notable about our treatment of [...]

A great review by Kathy Stevenson in The Daily Mail of my new novel A NAME IN BLOOD: “The well-known image of Caravaggio is of a great artist but a deeply flawed man, a profligate and uncouth murderer. Matt Rees’s novel adds the light and shade that were so characteristic of his work to the [...]

I’d seen “The Robespierre Serial” on my parents shelves for years. It was published in 1975, so I assume it must’ve been up there since I was eight. I knew the cover because, even as a kid, there was something compelling about a southern European country scene viewed through the sights of a sniper. I [...]

For the Western Mail, the main newspaper in my native Wales, I wrote about the importance of recent discoveries of Caravaggio’s youthful sketches, as well as how I came to write my novel A NAME IN BLOOD. Meanwhile, Declan Burke, author of the Crime Always Pays blog and one of Ireland’s premier crime novelists, reviews [...]

The Sunday Times reviews recent historical fiction (including the latest from Harry Sidebottom who, despite the ring of his name to the British ear, writes about the wars of ancient Rome, rather than Yorkshire cricket in the 1930s) and has great things to say about my new Caravaggio novel A NAME IN BLOOD. “A NAME [...]

Some great reviews online for my new Caravaggio novel A NAME IN BLOOD. The delightfully named ARRSE blog, which is mainly for members of the British military, rates the novel highly: A really good novel, based on real characters, real paintings and real events. I would suggest that you look up the actual pictures on [...]

A fabulous review on examiner.com for my historical mystery MOZART’S LAST ARIA. Lynn Farris writes: “I strongly recommend this book and feel that it would be an excellent book for book clubs to discuss as well.”

My novel about the great Italian artist Caravaggio A Name in Blood won’t be out in the UK until July 1. Still the review copies are out there and the It’s a Crime blog gets in first with a very positive mention. A Name in Blood is a superb tale of intrigue and wrong doing [...]