'Humans may be the supremely musical animal, but, with or without us, this is a musical planet.'

@MathewJLyons on how music on earth began.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/symphony-of-a-thousand-millennia

'In 2007, German scientists analysed the soil of this lunar landscape and found that 17 per cent of its weight was made up of arsenic. The ground wasn’t poisoned – it was poison.'

http://ow.ly/Ck7j50Er3mu

'Rivalries are intense and dangerous, and someone has to die.'

@NJCooper_crime on new thrillers by @HenryCPorter, @k_faulkner, @annafbailey, @mserinkelly, @JoelDicker, @AlanJParks, @whartonswords and more.

https://literaryreview.co.uk/april-2021-crime-round-up