by Helen | May 5, 2025 | Book reviews
As you may guess from the title, Can You Solve the Murder is a ‘choose your own adventure’ take on the crime novel. As you read, you’re asked to make choices (eg about who to interview next, or which location to go to). You need to make notes...
by Helen | May 1, 2025 | Book reviews
Julie Chan is Dead is not the book you think it is. Sure, when it begins, you’ll run headfirst into into thriller/stolen identity territory, as Julie visits the twin she doesn’t really talk to (separated as infants), finds her dead, then decides to become...
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...
