THE BOOK Varg Veum receives a surprise visit in his office. A woman introduces herself as his half-sister, and she has a job for him. Her god-daughter, a 19-year-old trainee nurse from Haugesund, moved from her bedsit in Bergen two weeks ago. Since then no one has heard anything from her. She didn’t leave an… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Big Sister’ by Gunnar Staalesen – Book Review
THE BOOK Oliver Marks has just served ten years for the murder of one of his closest friends – a murder he may or may not have committed. On the day he’s released, he’s greeted by the detective who put him in prison. Detective Colborne is retiring, but before he does, he wants to know… Continue reading Book Review – ‘If We Were Villains’ by ML Rio
Happy June my bookish friends! My monthly wrap-up is a little late, we’ll blame life for that. My May has been pretty full on – I’ve gone from working one day a week to four, Leo has started nursery and he has had every illness he can get over the last four weeks. So… Continue reading My Bookish Month – May
THE BOOK In a reimagined contemporary Edinburgh, in which a tectonic fault has opened up to produce a new volcano in the Firth of Forth, and where tremors are an everyday occurrence, volcanologist Surtsey makes a shocking discovery. On a clandestine trip to The Inch – the new volcanic island – to meet Tom, her… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Fault Lines’ by Doug Johnstone – Book Review
THE BOOK Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Lywll. His aunt thinks Lywll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside – and thinks the company even worse. In face, Edward has decided to murder his aunt. A darkly humorous depiction of fraught family ties, ‘The Murder… Continue reading Book Review – ‘The Murder of My Aunt’ by Richard Hull
THE BOOK When Tina Hopgood writes a letter of regret to a man she has never met, she doesn’t expect a reply. When Anders Larsen, a lonely museum curator, answers it, nor does he. They’re both searching for something, they just don’t know it yet. Anders has lost his wife, along with his hopes and… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Meet Me At The Museum’ by Anne Youngson – Book Review
THE BOOK It is 1997, eight months since vigilante justice-seeker Claymore Straker fled South Africa after his explosive testimony to Desmond Tutu’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In Paris, Rania LaTour, journalist, comes home to find that her son and her husband, a celebrated human rights lawyer, have disappeared. On an isolated island off the coast… Continue reading Blog Tour – ‘Absolution’ by Paul E. Hardisty – Book Review
