by FOOL | Oct 17, 2026 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Espionage, Fiction
Last year, Oundle Crime read a novel called Mrs Spy by M.J. Robotham – a light hearted spy story, set in 1960s London. It got the thumbs up from our group and we hoped there would be more books in the pipeline. Now there’s a sequel called The Spy and the Snake which,...
by FOOL | Oct 9, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction
It took a while for me to decide to borrow The Drowning Place by Sarah Hilary from Oundle Library, because the cover blurb made it sound a bit predictable. There’s a detective carrying childhood trauma fighting his way through a complex murder case while learning to...
by FOOL | Sep 25, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Humour, Psychological Thriller
A large chunk of our meeting at the end of September was taken up discussing Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray and we posted our blog about that on 25 September. But we still managed to chat about six other books that we’d enjoyed and would like to recommend As...
by FOOL | Sep 25, 2026 | Courtroom drama, Crime Fiction
Thanks to the Reading Agency and Pan Macmillan, Oundle Crime was offered copies of Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray to read and review. It’s not often we can all read and chat about the same book, so this was a treat. As you’d expect, our group was divided in our...
by FOOL | Sep 19, 2026 | Espionage, Non-fiction
I only read non-fiction very occasionally, but this looked intriguing enough to borrow when I saw it at Oundle Library – and I’m glad I did! The Spy in the Archive by Gordon Corera is a tantalising story of how one, lowly librarian for the KGB became a traitor, stole...
