by Helen | Nov 4, 2024 | Book reviews
I’m fully invested in this Whity-based crime series now, featuring DCI Frank Black and DI Gerry Carver. Each one (so far) explores a case featuring an old body – the forgotten bodies of the series name. Frank fights hard to do what’s right by each...
by Helen | Nov 2, 2024 | Book reviews
There are so many interesting ideas in Interstellar MegaChef. Glance at the cover and read the blurb, and you may think this will be a cosy SF story about a woman in an intergalactic version of the Great British Bake Off. There’s certainly a (small) element of...
by Helen | Oct 5, 2024 | Book reviews
Forgotten Lives is the second of the Whitby’s Forgotten Victims series, and I’ve seen enough now to think I’ll probably be on board for any additions – it’s a good read.In this volume, a body is found in the walls of a pub that’s...
by Helen | Sep 19, 2024 | Book reviews
I always enjoy a crime book that makes you feel like you’re reading something fresh and interesting, rather than a retread of everything that’s gone before, even when there are familiar elements. That was certainly the case for me in One of Us Is Dead.It...
by Helen | Sep 8, 2024 | Book reviews
This was a fun read, albeit one that took a little while to get into.It opens with the birthday party – and death – of the wealthy Anthony Wistern. Impaled on a spike in a pool, his death draws interest and suspicion from far and wide. If he was murdered,...
by Helen | Aug 16, 2024 | Book reviews
The Salt Flats is a taut and well-told tale about a couple heading to a mysterious retreat on the Bolivian salt flats.It’s difficult to pin down as a specific genre. Is it a book about climate change fear (guilt about climate change eats away at main character...
