This weekend I was asked by a friend to recommend what I thought was the best ever crime book. She has recently got back into crime fiction via way of Lisa Gardner and was asking what to read next. This is quite possibly one of the hardest questions I’ve ever contemplated (after do you want…
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The Tideline by Penny Hancock – a review
This book was another new author for me and I read it almost in one sitting (I only stopped when I got to Glasgow and I had to get off) The cover of the book states: ‘He chose to come to the river house, She chose to keep him there forever’ and the story pretty…
The Cuckoo by Julia Crouch – a review
Julia Crouch is in the session entitled Deadlier than the Male, which I have to say seems a strange session for her to be in. Having just read her book ‘The Cuckoo’ it wasn’t particularly gruesome, or violent especially when compared to someone like Chelsea Cain or Jilliane Hoffman and so I wander if she…
The Leopard – Jo Nesbo a review
My latest book (read in two halfs around Gillian Flynn due to train equalling kindle and home equalling real books!) was The Leopard by Jo Nesbo. I’ve read the Redeemer by the same author previously so had an idea that I was going to like it. Jo Nesbo is an author based in Norway, and…
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