Let me preface this little brain-squeeze by saying that I can’t recall reading any satire before, so the finer nuances of the genre may be a little lost on me. I came by The Breaking […]
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The Dry and its amazing claustrophobic openness…
I grabbed The Dry by Jane Harper on a whim, having seen that beautiful jacket and read half a line of the synopsis. I think I’d clicked BUY NOW before I’d even realised I’d done […]
The Last Cut, But A Great New Series
One of my formative memories in my fledgling writing career was at Bloody Scotland in September 2014, when, bumbling and in awe, I asked Danielle Ramsay to sign a paperback for me. I proceeded to […]
A Wanted Man – FREE TODAY!
‘A Wanted Man’, is FREE today! ‘A fantastic read with brilliant characters… A perfect ending… did not see that coming. 5 stars’ ‘one of the best books out the hundred I’ve read this year so […]
A Wanted Man – published!
It’s with great delight that I can share the news that A Wanted Man, my debut novel, has been published by Endeavour Press. You can grab it here! A Wanted Man is, simply put, the […]
Old Faithful
Nice recent family sunshine holiday enhanced by enjoying a favourite author’s standalone work. The thing with CJ Box is that he’s so reliable that I don’t even see it as expenditure when I order his […]
My Sister’s Grave and where your moral compass lies…
Read this great novel, My Sister’s Grave by Robert Dugoni, and really enjoyed it. I grabbed it after seeing an advert for Dugoni’s latest, and wanted to go back to the start of the series […]
That rarest beast: a villain that is somehow evil AND sympathetic?
I’ve waxed lyrical on here before about my love of Ace Atkins’ Quinn Colson books, and am working my way steadily through the stories. Each one seems better than the last, which is quite some feat, […]
Two hauntings, two very different deliveries… two great reads
Every now and then a thirst for a scary story rears its ugly head, and I take a break from my usual crime novel inhaling to satisfy it. The last two I’ve read have both […]
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