A couple of weeks ago I met a friend for lunch and one topic of conversation was facebook (Not a book, although if it were a book, if you ask me Facebook accounts would be on a par with the telephone directory. We all have one sitting around and don’t really want to get rid…
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Bloodline – review
I think that sometimes one of the most underrated aspect of the crime novel genre is the humour that can often be found amongst the blood, guts and gore. It was with this in mind that for TOPCWFC book four I cheated a little by returning to an old favourite rather than picking someone new….
Dead Like You – A review
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…
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…
A crime readers blog 