25 February 2012
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No, I haven’t given up blogging for Lent. It is still just late nights I have given up. Having said that, I am still bleary-eyed this morning. Last night was my weekly “night of grace”, where I allow myself a … Continue reading
12 January 2012
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Reading Dr McKay’s book reminded me of Kathy Reichs series about Temperance Brennan. Like Tempe, Dick Meyer is a civilian expert and, like Tempe, he gets much deeper into the investigation — and associated trouble — than might be considered … Continue reading
5 January 2012
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As far as it goes, Coming to the Edge is a half-way decent police procedural. It has all the expected cast, such as the maverick hero and dependable sidekick (two in this case) along with support from villains, witnesses and … Continue reading
14 August 2011
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Aha! Browsing through ITV’s online offerings this weekend, we spotted Vera. This is the TV adaptation of Ann Cleeve’s novels about Vera Stanhope, a detective who can come across as an old bag but who is also revealed to be … Continue reading
7 January 2011
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I watched another of Lassgård’s depictions of Wallander last night, One Step Behind (now gone from the iPlayer site — you have just a few more hours to catch the one I watched earlier this week). Again, it was very … Continue reading
3 January 2011
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The BBC has recently been showing another Swedish adaptation of Henning Mankell’s p0liceman, Wallander. This one is played by Rolf Lassgård and a couple of episodes can be found on the iPlayer site until Friday this week, including the one … Continue reading
19 October 2010
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Here is an interesting — if slightly gruesome — mash-up site: MurderMap. It combines a Google map with information from London court records to plot the location of all murders noted across the region in the records. I don’t know … Continue reading
18 February 2010
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Martin Misunderstood by Karin Slaughter 18 February, 2010 by Wulf Forrester-Barker bookBook Review0.3 Rating: 1 / 5 This book is refreshingly short; at least you only waste about 150 pages of reading time compared to the longer works Slaughter normally … Continue reading
25 July 2009
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One of my favourite fictional detectives is Henning Mankell’s Kurt Wallander. I only discovered him a couple of years ago but have read quite a few of the Wallander novels since then. Last year the BBC released a series of … Continue reading