Blood Wedding, Pierre Lemaitre

One problem I have - and it perhaps says more about me than anything else! - is that I tend to rely on familiar authors so in crime I have been reliant on Tana French's Dublin Murder Squad series, Susan Hill's Simon Serrailler series, Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie novels and a few others: Anthony Horowitz,… Continue reading Blood Wedding, Pierre Lemaitre

The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, Graeme Macrae Burnet

Graeme Macrae Burnet came to my attention through the Booker Prize: I loved his His Bloody Project novel with its multiple voices and setting, evocatively recreating the brutality of life in Scottish crofting communities. It was on the strength of that that I picked up this, the first of his Detective Gorski novels and -… Continue reading The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau, Graeme Macrae Burnet

Pure, Andrew Miller

You know what it's like... Unless it's just me... You see a book on a shelf, perhaps at a Service Station, maybe on the M5. Something about the cover appeals; the blurb interests you; the historical context intrigues you.... And yet for some reason (let's call them children and imagine the reasons were at the… Continue reading Pure, Andrew Miller