Review: Death in a Far Country by Patricia Hall
Police in Bradfield struggle to identify the body of a young woman found in a canal. While DCI Michael Thackeray, newly returned to work after leave to recover from an injury, is busy getting the...
View ArticleReview: Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
I have set myself a mini challenge to ‘read’ all the Agatha Christie books that I can find in audio format narrated by David Suchet and the latest to find its way onto my iPod is Sad Cypress, a novel I...
View ArticleReview: Dead at Daybreak by Deon Meyer
In South Africa Zatopek (Zet to his friends) van Heerden is an ex cop now working, reluctantly, as a private detective. Lawyer Hope Beneke hires him to find the will of an antiques dealer called...
View ArticleA Review of a kind: If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr
The first two-thirds of If the Dead Rise Not is set in Berlin in 1934. Hitler’s National Socialist Party has been in power for 18 months which made Bernie Gunther’s life as a homicide detective...
View ArticleReview: Still Midnight by Denise Mina
Denise Mina’s Garnethill was one of my ten best reads of last year so, even though I haven’t finished that series yet, I was keen to read her latest adult fiction. In suburban Glasgow one Sunday...
View ArticleReview: Slay Ride by Chris Grabenstein
Thanks to Ms Bookish last year I discovered the joy that is Chris Grabenstein’s John Ceepak series as read by Jeff Woodman and the series has become my ‘go to’ recommendation for people new to audio...
View ArticleReview: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie
A few months ago Kerrie who is hosting the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge & Blog Carnival prompted me to look for a way to re-visit Agatha Christie’s work, something I hadn’t done for more than...
View ArticleReview: The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean
This excellent review at Crime Scraps (the blog which has single-handedly rekindled my interest in historical fiction over the past year or so) prompted me to add this book to my TBR pile (or, if we’re...
View ArticleReview: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
The 19th book to count towards my 2010 Audio book challenge is the first crime novel by this author and I was tempted to read it by this review at Petrona (where Maxine posts what amounts to my...
View ArticleReview: Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill
Midnight Fugue is the 20th and final book to count towards the obsessed level for the 2010 Audio Book Challenge (that’s one challenge done, three to go for twenty ten). It is several months since he...
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