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Book 9 in the Simon Serrailler Series. I had read this previously (during the time I was not reviewing on here) and, when this came up at the St Andrew's Book Club, I felt I should read it again (especially seeing as I'd recommended Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series to the others). Suffice to say,... Continue Reading →
Following the death of her lover, Detective Sergeant Kate Powers has moved to join the police in Birmingham. Yes, 'police procedural' again, but a good read, the sort of book for which you'd stay up late to finish a chapter and look forward to picking up again. Murder the Boys is the first of the... Continue Reading →
A murder mystery without a proper murder. Well, yes, there was a murder but it was committed a long time ago, reported towards the end of the book and only part of the story. But read on, lovers of crime fiction, read on. Simon Naylor, a likeable ingenue, has just inherited his father's house in... Continue Reading →
Oh Joy! DI Rowan Jackman and DS Marie Evans (of 'The Murderer's Son' fame) are starting a murder investigation for one teenage girl when they are asked, by their inappropriately named chief inspector, Ruth Crooke, to renew the cold case of Kenya Black, a child who vanished eight years ago. Ooh, and then they are... Continue Reading →
The Jazz Files starts with a death, at a railway yard in Slough, on a cold Guy Fawkes Night in 1913. The characters we're meeting are Suffragettes (or Suffragists) and already we are learning about terrible secrets contained a cedarwood box. Immediately afterwards, we meet Poppy Denby disembarking from a train at King's Cross Station... Continue Reading →
Available from Alfie Dog Fiction here. This is a repeat of a review I've posted on Goodreads and Amazon, as a member of the Reading Panel for Alfie Dog Fiction. Caroline rents a Riverbank Cottage in a Sussex village with no thought of ‘getting involved’ with the neighbours. On the run from an abusive husband,... Continue Reading →
Available from No Exit Press and Amazon. This is the sixth in the Geraldine Steel series. Geraldine has now moved to a new job as an inspector in the Homicide Assessment Team with the (London) Metropolitan Police, and now reports to Chief Inspector Reg Milton, who she hasn't yet got the measure of. This book... Continue Reading →
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Birds-of-a-Feather/dp/B002SQ75J8 This was my second Maisie Dobbs story and, having enjoyed the first one ('Maisie Dobbs'), I was looking forward to it, especially as I was aware that Jacqueline has written a long series. So what went wrong for me? Set in the 1920s, we had the setup classic detective story setup, with Maisie in... Continue Reading →
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