I’ve finished book three of the TOPCWFC (I’m determined to start a trend!) and I was not disappointed. Dead like you by Peter James is set in Brighton and is based around a serial rapist known as the Shoe Man. Detective Roy Grace failed to solve a series of rapes back in 1997 by a…
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The Winterghosts – A review
After finishing Never Look Back, and without time to trawl through the bookcases (of which I have a few) the book closest to hand was The Winterghosts by Kate Mosse so that was what I started. The book cover was pretty and made of nice paper, however that’s about as good as it got. I…
Never Look Back – review
The Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival Challenge (TOPCWFC for short) has got off to a flying start. My first book was by Laura Lippman called Never look back. A brand new author for me, the story is about Elizabeth, now Eliza, who is married with 2 children including a teenage daughter. Eliza was kidnapped…
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