The Forgotten Garden

After a rather busy few weeks, hopefully normal service can once again be resumed at acrimereadersblog. Having been working on a big event down in Brighton, time has very much been of the essence. Working weekends and evenings does tend to eat into time for other more enjoyable things such as seeing friends, and drinking…

Mercy by Jussi Adler-Olsen – a review

I picked this book up purely because it was the only one being stocked in my local bookshop by one of the speakers in the Dead in Deutschland session (even though Jussi Adler-Olsen is actually Danish not German) From the start I found this book gripping. As the cliché goes there are two sides to…

Crime Writers: A decade of crime

Well it’s all over for another year. The weekend before last the sun was shining, the deck chairs were out and the pimms was ready on ice as Harrogate got taken over by 100s of people all with one thing in common, an obsession with crime fiction. The Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Festival really is…

Shatter by Michael Robotham – a review

This was the first book I’ve read by Michael Robotham and I have to confess to being slightly confused as to why he is in a session called South of the Equator. Having been to Bristol a few times over the years to visit my Gran I’m pretty sure I didn’t need to take my…