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 […]
Tag: crime fiction
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 […]
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, […]
Only almost 30 years late…
One of the problems of days only having 24 hours in them is that it doesn’t possibly give you enough time to get everything done. I’m not talking about the mundane day to day stuff, […]
Rogue Lawyer…
Grabbed this one, John Grisham’s Rogue Lawyer, while I was at Copenhagen airport, and dug straight into it on the flight home. Grisham’s writing is, as always, dependable and engaging, and the story of a lawyer […]
A pint of the black stuff…
The Sean Duffy series became a favourite long before this sixth instalment, but this could be the best yet. Now a firm calendar highlight, the release of a new Duffy book guarantees a darkly funny, […]
From Bloody Scotland to Deep Down Dead…
When Deep Down Dead was first published as an ebook in October, I managed to convince myself to wait for the paperback in early January. I was very excited to read it, and had been […]
