Rambling about books since 1996…
Who knew that chestnuts could be so creepy? I didn't know that Soren Sveistrup was the man behind The Killing TV show, but now I do, I'm both completely unsurprised, and even more in love with this book than I was before. It's gory, it's chills-down-your-spine cold, and it's got more twists and turns than …
Continue reading Blog Tour: The Chestnut Man, by Soren Sveistrup
I first came into contact with M. J Tjia's work almost exactly a year ago, with the great book She Be Damned, and here, we're diving right back into the thick of things, into the lives of Heloise Chancey, Victorian courtesan and part-time mystery solver, and her mother, Amah, or Li Lee. This book continues …
This was a twisting, turning rollercoaster of a novel, with thrills to spare. Taking us into the mind of the killer- and into the minds of two similarly conflicted, but very different protagonists, Max Manning has created a great murder mystery. The main story riffs on the common unease that many people have with the …
A quick thank you before I start to Accent Press, who kindly sent me an advance copy of this book. So, The Development. This is the first book that I've read by Jackie Kabler- and the first in the Cora Baxter Mysteries, of which this is the third novel- but she did an admirable job …
Grit and drama collide in this, the second in Joseph Knox's excellent and dark Aidan Waits series. With intrigue in spades, this tightly-plotted thriller serves up a peek into the dark underbelly of Manchester. One of the first things that hits you about this novel is that it's dark in only the way that a …
