15 July 2025
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I imagine it feels like a bit of a risk for an established author to start on a new series with a new central character. Of course, while readers often like to spend more time with “familiar faces”, sometimes a … Continue reading
8 February 2018
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One way to be a big fish is to swim in a small pond. I have to admit that this was what the cover blurb on my copy of Back Up by Paul Colize brought to mind: “the bestselling Belgian … Continue reading
8 November 2017
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Downloadkill sounds to me like either a (probably schlocky) sci fi novel or a (probably equally schlocky) metal band. However, it turns out to be a phrase used in South Korea to refer to the suicides resulting from the malignant … Continue reading
2 July 2015
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I read lots of books and they range from the unputdownable to the unpickupable. On the fiction side, it is rare that I find a book that I can’t bring myself to finish; I am more interested though in the … Continue reading
30 September 2014
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Revd Faith Morgan was formerly a police detective and thus perhaps an ideal person to have on the scene when the vicar of the church she is visiting dies unexpectedly during the service; all the more so when it turns … Continue reading
15 April 2014
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Rendell’s Wexford is a long-lived character in a long-lived series. Although his life runs at a slower pace than normal time, he retired from the police a couple of books ago but he still makes his contributions to the causes … Continue reading
19 February 2014
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This week I took my first dip into Polish crime fiction with Grain of Truth by Zygmunt Miloszewski. In this country it seems that there is a different division of labour to the British and Nordic jurisdictions where most of my … Continue reading
18 March 2013
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It is really a bit late to recommend the BBC’s crime drama Shetland, based on one of the books in Ann Cleeves’ Shetland Quartet, as it will disappear off the iPlayer this evening. I only recently became aware of it … Continue reading
7 March 2013
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Kathy Reichs has published 15 novels featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan and I have read all of them. This morning, I polished off the final few chapters of the most recent, Bones are Forever. I imagine that writing a long-running … Continue reading
28 May 2012
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On reflection, staying up to watch a second episode of ITV’s Vera (based on the Vera Stanhope novels by Ann Cleeves) was not a particularly bright move. Jane had found a recently broadcast episode, which we enjoyed, but we then … Continue reading