The Mist is the third and final book in the Hidden Iceland series. Reviews of the previous two books can be found elsewhere on my site. I’ve really enjoyed this quirky take on Icelandic police work. The Hidden Iceland series begins at the end of Hulda’s career with the police. […]
Now I will never admit this to your face but I’m a bit of a closet Country Music fan. Growing up on a diet of Johnny Cash and Glen Campbell, my Dad made it a compulsory accompaniment to every childhood car journey. As I result I now secretly love the […]
Set in a crumbling country estate on the south coast of Ireland The Christmas Party is a little gem of a book. Declan Lorne is the last Knight in Ireland. A title that ceases to be when he dies suddenly with three female heirs. His estate is passed to his […]
Moriarty’s back catalogue has become much more popular since the TV version of Big Little Lies hit our screens. What Alice Forgot was first published ten years ago but it hasn’t lost anything in the intervening years. Alice Love knows exactly who she is. At twenty nine she is newly […]
Samantha Smith is the most unlikely heroine. She’s the younger of two sisters but while Cleo is vivacious and outgoing Sam is a lover of routine, of old black and white movies and is happiest with her nose buried in a book. Her life revolves her job as box office […]
Painter has created a wonderful supernaturally infused underworld in London that rivals Aaronovitch’s Rivers of London series. Here the central character is Lydia Crow, heir apparent to one of the four magical family dynasties. Working as a private detective from the family cafe she tries to stay clear of the […]
If you’ve ever had nightmare neighbours you can sympathise with the residents of Lowland Way. It’s a pretty well to do street in an area of South London that has become gentrified. Waitrose shoppers aspiring to send their well heeled offspring to good schools and to have the best start […]
Just when you think that Caroline Mitchell can’t surprise you she comes up with The Perfect Mother. Roz is just about scraping by in a job that she hates in Dublin. When she realises that she is pregnant after an ill advised one night stand things are pretty desperate. She […]
You’ve probably discovered Tess Gerritsen even if you’ve never read any of her books. She was the author of the the hugely successful crime series which was turned into the TNT television series “Rizzoli & Isles” starring Angie Harmon and Sasha Alexander. The Shape of Night is a new stand […]
Over the past few years Louise Jensen has become one of my favourite writers of psychological thrillers. Always uniquely British and always impossible to predict they are stories that will keep you gripped right to the very last page. Laura is struggling. Recently widowed, she is about to lose her […]
