# book research (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover book research. Page: Feed: --- ## [Anatomy of a City: The Hunterian Museum and London’s Dissection Past](https://jfpenn.com/hunterian-museum-london-dissection-past/) _2026-08-17 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ Where to trace London's dissection past: the Hunterian Museum, the Old Operating Theatre, the Wellcome Collection and Barts Pathology Museum, plus the resurrection men, the Murder Act and the Anatomy Act behind Desecration. ## [Books Like The Wicker Man: British Folk Horror and Pagan Fiction](https://jfpenn.com/books-like-the-wicker-man-british-folk-horror/) _2026-08-17 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ If you love The Wicker Man, here are 27 folk horror and pagan fiction novels to read next, from The Ritual and Harvest Home to The Loney, Starve Acre and Blood Vintage. ## [Best Creature Horror Books: Underground Monsters and Cave Thrillers](https://jfpenn.com/best-creature-horror-books-underground-monsters-cave-thrillers/) _2026-08-17 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ 23 of the best creature horror and confinement novels: cave monsters, underground thrillers, deep-sea terrors, parasites and isolated predators, from The Descent and The Ruins to The Luminous Dead and Catacomb. ## [30+ Best Medical Thrillers with Female Detectives](https://jfpenn.com/best-medical-thrillers-with-female-detectives/) _2026-08-17 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ A core list of 21 medical and forensic thriller series with female detectives, medical examiners and forensic experts, from Rizzoli & Isles and Kay Scarpetta to Ruth Galloway and the Dark London thrillers, plus bonus female-led crime series and related reads, with a guide to choosing your next series. ## [Thrillers with Tattoos: Ink, Identity, and the Clues We Carry on Skin](https://jfpenn.com/thrillers-with-tattoos/) _2025-10-14 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ Nine thrillers where tattoos are motive, weapon or the only way to name the dead, from The Tattoo Thief and The Skin Collector to Deviance and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. ## [Macabre Museums: 9 Crime Novels Featuring Museums Collections And Cabinets of Curiosity](https://jfpenn.com/macabre-museums-crime-thrillers/) _2025-10-14 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ Nine crime novels set in museums, collections and cabinets of curiosity, from Relic and The Da Vinci Code to Desecration, and why museums make perfect crime scenes. ## [Where Did The Idea For Blood Vintage Come From? J.F. Penn On The Unreserved Wine Talk Podcast](https://jfpenn.com/where-did-the-idea-for-blood-vintage-come-from/) _2024-10-09 · J.F. Penn · J.F.Penn_ How visiting two English vineyards, and the strange practices of biodynamic winemaking, sparked Blood Vintage, a folk horror novel. J.F. Penn talks to Natalie MacLean on The Unreserved Wine Talk Podcast.