Where The Crawdads Sing
‘Yes this is in part a murder-mystery – but it is also a coming-of-age novel, a romance and an evocative celebration of nature.’
Am Reading
The Lincoln Highway
The Lincoln Highway is out and deservedly dominating the American best-seller charts.
Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Rules for Perfect Murders pays homage to the classics whilst deftly weaving its own twisty murder story.
Review – Will Dean’s Black River
Dean’s setting complements the creepiness of the characters very well…
Secret Library Feature
The book blog, Cafe Thinking has asked me to write about three lesser known books I have loved. So here …
Mediterranean Noir
The author of Total Chaos, Jean-Claude Izzo was born in Marseilles in 1945 and died at the age of 55. …
The Wench Is Dead by Colin Dexter
This was Dexter’s eighth book in the Inspector Morse series and as a crime novel set on a canal, it …
The Puppet Show by M.W.Craven (Washington Poe Book)
This book won the Crime Writers’ Association 2019 Golden Dagger and so it came highly recommended. It is another police …
Natural Causes by James Oswald (Inspector McLean Mystery)
I was intrigued by this author’s regular Twitter posts as he is also a farmer in the Scottish Highlands and …