I suppose I should start by announcing a declaration of interest – I love York and am very lucky to live in such a wonderful city. It also makes me rather biased to anything that is York based, so my latest read, The Baedeker Murders did have a slight starting advantage! The Baedeker Murders is…
Tourist Season by Carl Hiaasen – a review
In a break from my usual reading fare (in that the author has absolutely no connection with the Harrogate festival) I have recently read Carl Hiaasen’s novel Tourist Season. This was recommended by a friend, and was the first Carl Hiaasen I’d read, it was also the first one he wrote. The story is set…
Deity by Stephen Dunne – a review
I met Steven Dunne at York Library, where he was talking to Peter Robinson and David Mark at the small but perfectly formed ‘crime on tour’ event last Summer, it was here that I picked up his latest novel called Deity. Deity could almost be read as two completely separate stories. The book starts with…
Small crimes
People are always saying that things have shrunk over the years and on the whole I would agree. For example, last week I was given a wagon wheel. When I was a kid finding a wagon wheel in my lunchbox was like a lottery win (although obviously I wouldn’t have thought that exact thought at…
A crime readers blog 