by Helen | Apr 10, 2025 | Book reviews
While this is the 8th book in the Nosey Parker mystery series, you can quite happily jump into The Cornish Castle Murder whether you have read any or not. Saying that, it probably adds to the charm if you’re at least a little familiar with the main cast.In this...
by Helen | Mar 31, 2025 | Book reviews
Dissolution is a mind-bending science fiction thriller, largely told through interviews and flashback, that’s ultimately about love and memory.It begins with Maggie Webb, an elderly woman whose ailing husband Stanley is struggling with memory loss. She’s...
by Helen | Mar 25, 2025 | Book reviews
An utterly bizarre book that takes the premise ‘what if the moon turned into cheese?’ and runs away with it, to both logical and hilarious extremes (albeit not always both at once).It’s written as a series of interconnected short stories and the...
by Helen | Mar 20, 2025 | Book reviews
Another solid entry in the ‘Forgotten Victims’ series.This time a body is discovered in an old farm silo when some teens crash into it. The victim is a young girl who went missing years ago with only a single and contentious eye witness for her last...
by Helen | Feb 28, 2025 | Book reviews
Tchaikovsky is incredibly prolific and blessed with ideas, as shown here, in Shroud.If I was pitching Shroud to a friend, I might say it’s a mix of The Martian with a futuristic space horror.We start with a team of scientists investigating a dark and mysterious...
