My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) Alan Rickman shot to fame as villainous Hans Gruber in Die Hard, back in 1988. Up until then he’d done a lot of theatre, mostly in the UK. His diaries run from 1993 until his death in 2016 and offer insight into the actor’s public and private…
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‘The Lonely Lake Killings’ by Wes Markin
My Review (3 out of 5 stars) This is book 2 in the Yorkshire Murders series, and is the first I’ve read by this author. The story centres on the murder of a barmaid who is found dead by a lake. The proximity of the body to the home of a local recluse seems to…
On Creating a Series
I assume that other authors, like me, create a series of books (ie a sequence featuring the same characters or setting/location) so the expectation that whatever readers loved about the first book will prompt them to read the others. But do we do it simply to have the same group of characters ready and waiting,…
‘King of Kings’ by MJ Porter
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Following his father’s death, King Athelstan rules over the English, unifying the territories of Wessex, Mercia and York. But uniting the Scots and Welsh to ensure peace and protect against invasion from the Norse Vikings, isn’t so easy. Set against him, is his own stepbrother, Edwin, who believes…
‘The Small Hand’ by Susan Hill
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Antiquarian bookseller Adam Snow gets lost on his way home from seeing a client. Discovering an apparently abandoned Edwardian house, he has a look around. In doing so, he experiences a strange sensation – the feeling of a child’s hand slipping into his own. Following a series of…
‘The Blue Bar’ by Damyanti Biswas
My Review (3 stars out of 5) A Mumbai police officer striving to solve a spate of murders, finds himself hindered at every turn. It seems someone is keen to stop him tracking down a serial killer. Troubled by his own past, Inspector Arnav Singh Rajput can’t escape the memory of his former lover, Tara,…
‘The Flight’ by Heather J Fitt
My Review (4 stars out of 5) On a flight to the Caribbean, young mum Melissa finds her nursing skills called upon when one of the passengers dies suddenly. At first it appears the woman may have suffered a heart attack, but later begins to look as if she has been poisoned. After a second…
‘Thin Air’ by Ann Cleeves
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A group of friends travel to Shetland to join the celebrations when one of their number gets married to a local. But following the wedding party, one of the women disappears. When she is found dead, cops Jimmy Perez and Willow Reeves launch an investigation. Learning that the…
‘Dancing with the Devil’ by Matthew Jones
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Offered a job as an engineer at a boat yard, Danny realises he’s being asked to spy on the workers by the firm’s wealthy business partner, Conrad Szekely. But things get off to a bad start and Danny finds himself an unpopular and unwanted addition to a failing…
‘In Ice’ by Dave Sivers
My Review (5 stars out of 5) DI Nathan Quarrel and his team uncover a horrific scene in an apparently empty house in a Hertfordshire village. Finding three chest freezers in the basement, they discover the bodies of five naked women. As the investigation gets under way, the team realise they have a serial killer…
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