My friend messaged me last week to say that she’d just finished this book and that she couldn’t put it down. That’s a pretty good badge of quality from Kelly as we have very similar tastes in books. (Movies? Not so much – Speed 2 anyone??!) The next day I […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
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 […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
When I was young we used to go and visit my grandmother. If it coincided with a visit from my cousins it used to be great fun. On dark wet winter days not so much. My grandmother was an avid reader though and one wall of her bedroom had books […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
The latest instalment of Bryndza’s detective series sees Erika coming to terms with Peterson’s injuries and thinking about her future with the Met. When a suitcase is pulled out of the Thames containing dismembered body parts it becomes clear that there is a brutal killer on the loose in London. […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
Tracy Chevalier’s new book is the latest in the Hogarth Shakespeare series of modern day retellings of classic Shakespeare plays. Telling the story of Othello in a more contemporary setting, New Boy was always going to be a bit edgier than some of the others that have preceded it. It […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
The latest in the “Naked Men” series by Christi Barth sees federal agent Riley Ness meeting his match. Organised, prepared and ever reliable Riley has got a bit of a reputation amongst the other ACS buddies. A workaholic who drops everything for his job at the National Transportation Safety Board, […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
Fran wakes up in the night because the baby is crying. She realises that husband Nathan isn’t in bed so she checks on the baby and then goes in search of him. When he’d come in from the pub earlier he had snuggled up with her and they’d had sex […]
Estimated reading time: 1 minute
This time last year I read a short novella that was a digital prequel to what sounded like a really interesting new series. It has been a long wait but finally the first proper book in the Hanover House series has been published. Her Darkest Nightmare takes up right from […]
Estimated reading time: 3 minutes
I’ve had Lucie Whitehouse on my list of authors that interested me for quite a while now but never actually got around to picking up one of her books. I now realise that I was missing out because she is a master craftswoman when it comes to constructing the perfect […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
“Wanting it All” is the second book in Barth’s Naked Men series. The naked men in question here are a bunch of old school friends who bare their souls in a syndicated Podcast that has a large following online. I’ll be honest and say that I didn’t actually finish the […]
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes