Review: The Last, Hanna Jameson
‘Nadia once told me that she was kept awake at night by the idea that she would read about the end of the world on a phone notification.‘ American historian […]
Crime
Review: Lies Sleeping, Ben Aaronovitch
I finished my review of The Hanging Tree with the expressed hope that it would not take another two years for the next instalment. But then that was exactly what happened, other […]
Review: The Lost Man, Jane Harper
Jane Harper always writes with an incredibly powerful sense of place and The Lost Man is no exception. However, while her two previous novels, The Dry and Force of Nature […]
Review: Lethal White, Robert Galbraith
I read this book while in the early stages of labour with my first child, so it has a special significance for me. As the contractions gathered pace, my focus […]
Review: The Case of the Missing Brontë, Robert Barnard
The Case of the Missing Brontë appealed to me on the basis of the title alone. Even when I read the blurb and discovered that it was not about uncovering the […]
Review: Force Of Nature, Jane Harper
Jane Harper stormed onto the contemporary crime scene last year with The Dry with the mystery of what happened to the Hadler family one of my top reads of last year. Force […]
Review: A Maigret Christmas, Georges Simenon
Peculiar one here – I received a Netgalley proof of this and was saving it for Christmas. It promised three festive tales featuring famous literary detective Maigret. However, when I […]