Last weekend I finished reading Deon Myer, Devil’s Peak. Set in South Africa it’s the story of three main characters, an alcoholic detective, a revenge seeking assassin and an ex prostitute. (Not exactly the basis for a PG rated comedy) The assassin is seeking revenge against child abusers by slicing them to pieces with what…
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Birthday Girl
Today is my birthday, and whilst many of you may think there is no way I can link that fact to books – you’d be wrong! That means it is exactly one year today since I started keeping a notebook of all the books I have read. This started as an idea I had when…
Bloodline – review
I think that sometimes one of the most underrated aspect of the crime novel genre is the humour that can often be found amongst the blood, guts and gore. It was with this in mind that for TOPCWFC book four I cheated a little by returning to an old favourite rather than picking someone new….
Dead Like You – A review
I’ve finished book three of the TOPCWFC (I’m determined to start a trend!) and I was not disappointed. Dead like you by Peter James is set in Brighton and is based around a serial rapist known as the Shoe Man. Detective Roy Grace failed to solve a series of rapes back in 1997 by a…
A crime readers blog 