27 March 2015
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Fred Vargas, despite, the assumption you might make from the name, is a French lady writing (in the books I’ve enjoyed so far) about male detectives. By contrast, travelling back north to Sweden for the last entry in my week … Continue reading
26 March 2015
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Fred Vargas is an archaeologist but also a very accomplished author. A few years ago I enjoyed The Three Evangelists and was similarly impressed by The Ghost Riders of Ordebec. Both are set in her native France and I will … Continue reading
25 March 2015
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I became aware of Peter May through his Lewis trilogy, detective fiction set in the Outer Hebrides. Since finishing the last of those I’ve keenly scanned the M section on the library shelves looking to read more. Last year I … Continue reading
24 March 2015
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Scandinavia isn’t the only place where crime – and crime-writing – happens. A country I haven’t paid a paper visit to before is Egypt but that is where Parker Bilal took me in Dogstar Rising. The focal point of this … Continue reading
23 March 2015
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Don’t worry – I’m not planning heist or embarking on some madcap spree. However, since read a lot of crime fiction, I thought I would take a few days to note various authors I have come across in the last … Continue reading
17 December 2014
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Hunting through the library the other day, my eye was caught by a Patricia Cornwell novel, All That Remains, that boasted the cover blurb “Cornwell still does it better than anyone else” (Daily Mail). I used to eagerly seek out … Continue reading