Perfect people by Peter James – a review

Last week was  a bit of a religious week for me. Firstly I had a trip to see the excellent York Mystery Plays. If you’d asked me previously if I wanted to spend three hours sat outside watching bible stories I’d have run a mile, but they were fantastic. It was a bit like a live…

A judgement in stone

 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…

Originally posted on It's a crime! (Or a mystery…):
From the press release: FROM SECRET AGENTS AND SMASH HIT THRILLERS TO MAGIC IN THE MET: 2012 THEAKSTONS OLD PECULIER CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR LONGLIST REVEALED A mix of writers old and new will do battle in this year’s Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel…

Ten Big Ones

Here on wordpress blogging thingy there is a big star telling me that apparently my target is to make 10 posts. Well this is my 10th post so I’m looking forward to receiving my gold sticker to put on the wall chart I hope they also send me. I wander if the 10th post is…