As you all know I’m a big fan of the New Blood Panel at the festival and am always keen to read these before the event. However to be honest none of them really jumped out at me this year. Obviously wanting to ensure I completed the challenge I still continued and therefore recently finished…
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Soho Honey – AW Rock Q and Q – Blogival Tour
For my second act of the Blogival festival I’m delighted to welcome A.W. Rock to the ‘stage’ author of the gripping Soho Honey. Hi and thanks for joining me. I believe you spent a while working in Soho, are the characters in your novel inspired by real people? I have spent both my working and…
River of Souls by Kate Rhodes – a review
This is apparently Kate Rhodes’ 4th novel to feature psychologist Alice, however its the first one I’ve read. She is appearing at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival in a session on the Sunday called ‘Political corruption’ River of Souls is set in London along the banks of the river Thames. Jude Shelley is…
The Frozen Dead by Bernard Minier – a review
As I mentioned previously in a review, I am not usually a big fan of translated novels, and probably wouldn’t normally pick them out of choice. However the recent books I’ve read haven’t really blown me away, the last really good book I read was by Pierre Lemaitre and translated from French. Therefore when picking…
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