REVIEW BY IAN JAMES BRYDON Like her previous book, Bluebird, Bluebird¸ this novel is set in East Texas and features Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews. Until I read the previous book, I hadn’t been aware that the Texas Rangers still existed, and had assumed that they had passed into legend during the period of the wild […]
This is the third instalment in Mick Herron’s series featuring the inimitable Jackson Lamb and his team of ‘slow horses’. Lamb himself is an extraordinary creation, reminiscent of Reginald Hill’s burly and crass Superintendent Andy Dalziel, only far more dishevelled and boorish. His ‘slow horses’ are cast-offs from the elite world of MI5, each having […]
This book marks the return of Jackson Brodie, protagonist of four of Kate Atkinson’s previous novels, the last of which, Started Early, Took My Dog, was published some nine years ago. All of Atkinson’s customary ingredients are present: plausible characters; a labyrinthine plot (well, it is more a case of several different plots all interlaced […]
Peter Lovesey is one of Britain’s most prolific and successful crime writers, having produced more than fifty novels and collections of short stories. Wobble to Death, published in 1970, was his first novel and introduced his enigmatic Sergeant Cribb, or Cribb of the Detective, as he is called by one of the characters. Set in […]
It has been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well and he’s in demand again as a police consultant. His life seems to be on an even keel. But not for long. The call comes from an old associate: a body has been found, and she’d like Hunter […]
REVIEW BY IAN JAMES BRYDON Like her previous book, Bluebird, Bluebird¸ this novel is set in East Texas and features Texas Ranger, Darren Matthews. Until I read the previous book, I hadn’t been aware that the Texas Rangers still existed, and had assumed that they had passed into legend during the period of the wild […]
This is the third instalment in Mick Herron’s series featuring the inimitable Jackson Lamb and his team of ‘slow horses’. Lamb himself is an extraordinary creation, reminiscent of Reginald Hill’s burly and crass Superintendent Andy Dalziel, only far more dishevelled and boorish. His ‘slow horses’ are cast-offs from the elite world of MI5, each having […]
This book marks the return of Jackson Brodie, protagonist of four of Kate Atkinson’s previous novels, the last of which, Started Early, Took My Dog, was published some nine years ago. All of Atkinson’s customary ingredients are present: plausible characters; a labyrinthine plot (well, it is more a case of several different plots all interlaced […]
Peter Lovesey is one of Britain’s most prolific and successful crime writers, having produced more than fifty novels and collections of short stories. Wobble to Death, published in 1970, was his first novel and introduced his enigmatic Sergeant Cribb, or Cribb of the Detective, as he is called by one of the characters. Set in […]
It has been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well and he’s in demand again as a police consultant. His life seems to be on an even keel. But not for long. The call comes from an old associate: a body has been found, and she’d like Hunter […]
