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…
Breaking point
With less than a week to go until the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival its time to take stock of how the TOPCWFC2013 has gone. Unfortunately however it looks like I’m definitely more Novak Djokovic than Andy Murray. Even for a reasonably fast reader like me there are just so many authors at the…
The Poison Tree by Erin Kelly – a review
I ordered this book online but for some reason I obviously clicked the wrong button (yes I know that’s why you should always check your order before pressing send but where’s the fun in that) so I was very disappointed when this arrived instead of the Sick Rose as I’d actually watched the Poison Tree…
A crime readers blog 