Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear
We meet Maisie Dobbs in the Spring of 1929, as she embarks on her solo career as a private investigator. Very early on we can…
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The Department of Sensitive Crimes by Alexander McCall Smith
Reading a novel by Alexander McCall Smith feels as if a soothing balm is being applied to all the hurts and injuries inflicted by the…
Crucible by James Rollins
Whilst this instalment; Crucible, is number 14 in the Sigma Force thriller series, it’s best to have read the immediate predecessor The Demon Crown first…
Redemption by David Baldacci
Book five; Redemption, of the Amos Decker series starts, ominously enough, with the lead character reluctantly returning to his home town in Ohio USA.
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear
This is the second instalment in the Maisie Dobbs series, set in post-war London. It is 1930 and Maisie is instructed by Joseph Waite, a…
Just One Damned Thing After Another by Jodi Taylor
Just One Damned Thing After Another, the first book in the highly entertaining Chronicles of St Mary’s series, wastes no time in getting to the…
The Quiet American by Graham Greene
“Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. Greene shows us who…
Preservation by Jock Serong
Serong’s empathy within Preservation, for the mixed feelings that the indigenous Australians must have felt is beautifully conveyed. As a white Australian, it made me…
The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths
In The Crossing Places, when a child’s bones are discovered in the marshes close to an ancient site that Ruth helped excavated ten years ago,…
The Book Artist by Mark Pryor
One approaches the latest instalment; The Book Artist in the Hugo Marston crime-solving series with a decent glass of red wine and a cozy fireplace…
The Ink Stain by Meg and Tom Keneally
The Ink Stain is set in Sydney town and The Rocks of 1826 and concerns the murder of a newspaper editor.
Holding by Graham Norton
Holding by Graham Norton is set in a small remote village in Ireland where everyone knows everyone and their business.