As I mentioned previously in a review, I am not usually a big fan of translated novels, and probably wouldn’t normally pick them out of choice. However the recent books I’ve read haven’t really blown me away, the last really good book I read was by Pierre Lemaitre and translated from French. Therefore when picking…
The Turning Tide by Dr Brooke Magnanti
I am always a big fan of books with female leads and I like a bit of humour with my crime. Therefore I thought a novel by Brooke Magnanti (of Belle de Jour Fame) would have been right up my street. She is talking in a session at the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival…
Monday Mourning
I love a bank holiday. Not only is it a day not having to work, it’s a free day off unlike weekends which are full of chores to be done. Plus weekends come with that pressure of a Monday morning back at work. If you have a bank holiday, the first comment on arrival at…
Blood Wedding by Pierre Lemaitre – a review.
Pierre Lemaitre is talking at the festival in the session entitled France Noir – Le Roman Policier. He was not an author that I had read before as I must confess to not normally reading many translated books. However I was lucky enough to get a copy of this from netgalley so I had to…
A crime readers blog 