Another addition to the America’s Got Talent (showcasing new writers) slot in Harrogate is Chris Mooney. His latest book The Soul Collectors is his sixth novel I believe (at what point do people stop being classed as ‘new’ authors?) Children are kidnapped and their bodies never found. Years later their fingerprints are turning up at fresh abduction…
The Glass Room by Ann Cleeves – a review
Of all the books I’ve bought in preparation for the TOPCWFC, this was one that I’d put right to the top of the pile. I haven’t read any other Ann Cleeves books before. However we have recently bought tickets for the murder mystery night at the festival and it is based around the setting in this book…
The Memory Game
I suspect that people read less nowadays then they used to. Obviously I have no scientific evidence for this at all, but I think its probably common sense. When Charlotte Bronte was penning her stories up in Howarth her other options for entertainment were housework or painting (or maybe polishing the church pews!) so writing…
The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver – a review
Once again me and my kindle (someone should write a song about that) have been out and about, this time reading The Dead Tracks by Tim Weaver. This is the first of his novels I’ve read although the second he has written. In the Dead Tracks a girl is missing and her parent’s employ widower…
A crime readers blog 