The Blue Place by Nicola Griffith
When you read that a series of books are “brilliant and heartbreaking and made of awesome sauce and everybody should read them but go into them blind or you won’t get...
10 August 2015
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas
Reread in April 2015 and it was just as good as I remembered. Original review from 22nd April 2006. ISBN: 0098461560 Trans from the French: David Bellos Yes again a cover...
14 April 2015
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A Leo Demidov story. When a young boy’s body is found on the train tracks in Moscow Leo Demidov’s job is to make sure everyone knows that it wasn’t murder. After...
30 March 2015
A serpent uncoiled by Simon Spurrier
Dan Shaper is a private investigator. He used to be a mob enforcer. He used to beat and batter and otherwise assault various people on behalf of his criminal bosses. But...
31 January 2015
Velvet : Before the living end by Ed Brubaker
Back in November LadyBusiness celebrated Superwomen & Comics Week, and as part of that they had a “links of steel” post in which several comics were recommended. I caved and bought...
21 December 2014
Clouds of witness by Dorothy L Sayers
After solving the mystery of Whose Body Lord Peter Wimsey holidays in the wilds of Corsica, but, tiring of the rustic and wanting a bit of luxury he heads to Paris where he gets the shocking news that his brother, the Duke of Denver, has been arrested for murder. And the victim was Denis Cathcart, his sister’s fiancée. Wimsey heads for home straight away, and together with Inspector Parker he begins to investigate what actually happened.
21 December 2014
A walk among the tombstones [based on the book] by Lawrence Block dir. by Scott Frank
In 1991 three men robbed a bar that was known not to charge police officers for their drinks. Matthew Scudder was off duty and drinking at the time. When they shot...
20 September 2014
Wake of the Bloody Angel by Alex Bledsoe
Book 4 in the Eddie LaCrosse series. Eddie LaCrosse has a new client, and it is a surprising one to him. Angelina, the innkeeper and an old friend, suddenly reveals that...
9 November 2013
An uncertain place by Fred Vargas
Translated by Sian Reynolds. An Inspector Adamsberg novel #6 Adamsberg is in England at a European policing convention, discussing immigration and the control thereof. Well, that’s what everyone else is discussing,...
7 September 2013
Sorry by Zoran Drvenkar
translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside. Seeing a couple break-up in public Kris goes over to apologise to the woman. He tells her that her ex is sorry for what...
5 July 2012
Leviathan wakes by James S. A. Corey
The Expanse – book 1 In the not so distant, but still far off, future humans have left Earth. Colonised Mars, the Moon, and many asteroids. The Solar System is our...
2 July 2012
The Islanders by Christopher Priest
I have no idea what to say about this book. I have no idea what it is all about. But I suppose I should make some sort of an effort. The...
10 June 2012
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