Many years after The girl with the dragon Tattoo was first published, The girl in the spider’s Web, a continuation novel of Stieg Larsson’s series has allowed me to return to characters that I enjoy, Salander and Blomkvist. The film of The girl with the dragon Tattoo, with Daniel Craig, was when I was first… Continue reading The girl that got lost in translation

    In 2019 Stuart MacBride and MC Beaton will show two different sides of Scottish crime. With MC Beaton’s emphasis on tea and poison as part of the banner of her website you can see the definitive style. The comedic tone of MacBride’s Logan McRae would probably not be seen with a cup of… Continue reading Scotland comes to Theakstons

  Since 1992 Michael Connelly has intrigued audiences with the world of Harry Bosch. On the 30th of October, the 21st book in this series was released. As a reviewer of many different authors, the cross pollination of the Bosch world with that of Renee Ballard was a relief, because the lack of spoilers from earlier… Continue reading Ballard and Bosch join forces

My thanks to Colleen Cross for a review copy of her 2012 book, recently released on Audible, Exit Strategy. Throughout the book I found myself comparing the themes with Jeffery Deaver’s Cutting Edge. The theme of diamond mines has lots of possibilities for a crime writer, although the two protagonists of the separate novels tackled… Continue reading Exit as an entry

  This November, Lee Child’s 23rd Jack Reacher book gives us an insight into the man left at the side of the road thumbing for a lift. Reacher comes across a building contractor who leads him to investigate his father’s home town of Laconia, New Hampshire. Throughout the 22 proceeding books Reacher has been a… Continue reading Reflections on a Past Tense

John Grisham’s latest legal outing goes back to 1946, to follow the life of a soldier after he comes back from the war. The book opens with him killing a minister, but throughout the book the mystery revolves around why he did this. As a 17.5 hour spectacle, this was really to long, as 1/3rd… Continue reading The Reckoning

Last night Elly Griffiths came to Nottingham Waterstones for the first time, on a tour with her new book The Stranger Diaries. The talk began with a potted history of her life so far as a writer, starting with her early days as a children’s editor. This gave her insight into the publishing world, and… Continue reading Elly Griffiths on tour in Nottingham