Publisher Carina has started a new online crime club, aimed at people who love crime fiction and who want to be able to interact with authors and other fans of the genre. Naturally I was completely sold on the idea and signed up straight away…
A Savage Hunger
6 April 2016 by Leave a Comment
In the past couple of years I’ve become something of a fan of Claire McGowan’s Paula Maguire series, crime novels with a forensic pathologist based in Northern Ireland. Last December I reviewed The Silent Dead, the third in the series and was desperate to find out what happened next …
Snowblind
14 January 2016 by Leave a Comment
A few years ago we visited Iceland for a long weekend and I absolutely fell in love with the country. Darren dived at Silfra between the European and North American continental shelf while I mooched around Reykjavik taking photos and being mesmerised by the water and the mountains…
Only The Brave
29 October 2015 by Leave a Comment
Mel Sherratt is one of those writers that I’ve heard a lot about but never actually got round to reading. Her name is always all over Twitter and Facebook and she has a number of firm fans among the book blogging community…
The Defenceless
11 September 2015 by Leave a Comment
When I put together my mid-year top ten books I included Kati Hiekkapelto’s debut novel, The Hummingbird – a fabulous Finnish crime novel with great new heroine Detective Anna Fekete as its lead character. When Orenda Books asked me to participate in the Blog Tour…
Disclaimer
21 April 2015 by Leave a Comment
Imagine you’re reading a book and you slowly begin to realise that the story is about you and events in your life that you’ve hidden for over two decades? How would you cope? Would you want to know how the story ended and would you search for the author?
Playing with Fire
5 September 2013 by Leave a Comment
One of the UK’s hardest working crime writers must be Kindle sensation turned paperback hit Kerry Wilkinson. Already we’re onto the fifth novel in his DS Jessica Daniel series and there’s no sign of a let-up with a new spin-off series in the pipeline. I’ll admit that when I received a review copy of Playing with Fire I was a little worried….
Top Ten: Crime Writers (Part Two)
3 May 2013 by Leave a Comment
One of my most consistently popular articles is my Top Ten Crime Writers feature. It is my second most viewed post beaten only by the In Praise of Trailers article. In that I listed 10 crime writers I love..
The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
23 April 2013 by Leave a Comment
Today, April 23rd, we are celebrating the UK’s third annual World Book Night. Last year I participated for the first time distributing copies of Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. It was a fabulous experience and as soon as the opportunity to sign up as giver for this year opened up I grabbed the chance…
Think of the Children
25 February 2013 by Leave a Comment
When I first got my Kindle I went through a period of downloading many, many free and cheap books. More than I could possibly read in a decade and with no quality control whatsoever. There was a flurry of mindless downloading of books onto my new and special machine. I was, I admit, greedy. In some cases I discovered gems that I would previously never have found…