Today is International Women’s Day, which apparently started as far back as 1908 when 15 000 women marched through New York City demanding voting rights and better pay, although it was first celebrated in Europe in 1911. In this country women demonstrated in the streets, went on hunger strikes, threw themselves under horses all to fight…
Category: Theakstons Festival
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…
Body in the Library
So yesterday was the first day of my crime reading challenge. With the list of authors sitting printed on my desk I decided first port of call at lunchtime would be the local library. I often visit the library on a Saturday morning but as patience has never been my strong point I didn’t want…
Point of Origin
Last year my sister and I went to one day of the Harrogate Crime Writers Festival. For an avid reader of crime fiction as I am, this was pretty much on a par with a 12 year old being given back stage passes to the aftershow party at a Harry Potter film premier. A whole…
A crime readers blog 