⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ( Backstory: I have to confess - I love mysteries. Particularly British detective series. So I saved this book for a day I knew I would need a treat - and it’s fair to say I was not disappointed. So much so that I read this one…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] A near-perfect heart-stoppingly intense NY crime story - I read this almost straight through, hovering between intense interest in the events unfolding and an equally intense sickly anxiety for what I feared was going to happen next. Callum Burke, our main protagonist, is a Hong Kong cop…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Compulsively readable, “Black Reed Bay “ is crime fiction at its summit. One of my true joys is finding superb new authors, - authors whose writing style, characterization and plotting hit the sweet spot that defines what reading does for me - takes me away into another…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] With an interesting (and very socially intermingled) cast of police characters, this Scottish crime book, the first of the new DC Jane Renwick series, is off to an intriguing start. Part procedural police mystery, and part what-do-police-officers-do-in-their-social-lives, this story begins with a emotional wallop and the psychological…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] I had no idea what to expect in a book with such a strange title. So I looked it up. Sophomania: A delusion of having superior knowledge. And armed with that definition, as you now are, I began reading one of the most unusual mysteries I’ve…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monsterAnd when you gaze long into an abyss then the abyss also gazes into you”. With those words from philosopher Nietzsche, we get a glimpse into the soul of Detective Sergeant…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] The third installment in the “Sam Applewhite” series, this madly manic romp has Sam, - once again inadvertently enmeshed in a labyrinth of criminal activity - fighting for her life, scouting out stolen antiques and staring down Hugh, a rangy elderly tiger. All of this mayhem takes…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Right to Kill is an intense, intelligent, and totally absorbing British police procedural - one of the very best I’ve read in a long while. From the first pages of this book we are dropped into a situation that quickly unleashes a horrifying and deeply chilling homicide,…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Prepare to greet “Jane Austen meets Agatha Christie” in the delightful novel “Murder at Rosings”, by Annette Purdey Pugh, which was published by Honno on 17 June 2021. Taking off where Pride and Prejudice left off, it doesn’t take long for us to be drawn right back…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] What a fabulous read. I just love finding new and addictive detective series, particularly those with a strong female protagonist. And the icing on the cake, - the dual setting of this book, with the story - alternating between Long Island, NY and in and around County…