As you all hopefully remember a couple of weekends ago the clocks all went backwards an hour. This meant that for one day only everyone had an hour extra in the day. I very smugly used this extra hour to go for a run, although this meant in reality I was in bed by 9pm…
Tag: crime fiction
24 Hours by Claire Seeber – a review
I was given a copy of this by netgalley. 24 Hours starts with a fire at a hotel where Laurie and her best friend Emily are spending the night. Emily dies but Laurie believes that she is the intended target and therefore her daughter could also be in danger. So begins a frantic race by…
In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward – a review
I received a copy of this from netgalley earlier in the year, but for some reason it fell off my reading radar until a recent trip to Birmingham where I was lucky enough to devour it in a couple of sessions. In Bitter Chill by Sarah Ward starts off with the kidnapping of two young…
If she did it by Jessica Treadway – a review
As I have mentioned many times before, one of the best things about the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival is the abundance of new books and writers that are around. The goodie bag this year was a thing of beauty, sturdy, black and full of books. Of course it does always lead to a…
A crime readers blog 