I picked up Revenge of the Tide by Elizabeth Haynes after seeing her at the festival, and so it was on the top of my pile of signed copies of books to read when I got home. Revenge of the Tide is the name of the boat that Genevieve has bought to live on to…
A necessary end
The Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival 2012 is over. The books have been put on the shelf, the ‘tossergate’ explosion on twitter has died down, and the reservations have been made for 2013. Therefore Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival Challenge 2012 has come to an end. As I’ve said before technically I failed…
The Dark Winter by David Mark – a review
Ok, well technically this book was not actually finished before the TOPCWF but I did finish it the day I got back so am going to include it. I saw David Mark at the event I went to at York Library and it was there I picked up a copy of his debut novel The…
Doors Open
Well it’s over, the Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Writing Festival has finished, and I have no idea how to begin to describe this weekend. It was excellent! Me and the Sister travelled over on Thursday afternoon. After a quick trip round the bookshops of Harrogate (market research obviously) we headed to the hotel where the…
A crime readers blog 