Book Reviews
Most of our book reviews are written by members of our Oundle Crime book group, and if you enjoy reading crime fiction and thrillers and want to know more about Oundle Crime, click here.
But we don’t only review crime fiction. We’re happy to include reviews of any literary genre on our website, so if you’d like to write something for us about a book you’ve enjoyed, please send your review to join@friendsofoundlelibrary.org.uk
Take a look below to see our latest reviews, and click through to a book review to find our Archive. We should also add that, if you buy books linked to our website, we may earn commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops.
May 2022
Watch this space…
… we’ll be posting another book review here soon.
16 May 2022
We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker
No wonder this won last year’s CWA Gold Dagger Award. It’s a story that’s multi-layered, absorbing and utterly believable. It can’t be rated at anything less than 5-Stars.
9 May 2022
Money in the Morgue by Ngaio Marsh & Stella Duffy
Stella Duffy has done a great job completing a ‘lost’ story in the Roderick Alleyn series. The plot and characters feel entirely true to the originals and nothing jars. This is a ‘must read’ for fans of Classic Crime.
1 May 2022
Oundle Crime recommends
Oundle Crime drew the letter ‘U’ out of the hat last month, so their blog includes several authors and book titles starting with that letter as well as a smattering of others besides.
27 April 2022
Deadlock by Quintin Jardine
Book 31 in Jardine’s popular Bob Skinner series. It’s an interesting mystery set during the Covid-19 pandemic involving unexplained deaths and a gruesome murder. A very satisfying read.
20April 2022
One Way Street by Trevor Wood
A wonderful follow-up to Trevor Wood’s debut novel The Man on the Street. Gritty, well-paced and realistic. It’s unputdownable! 5-Stars.
11 April 2022
American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
The haunting story of a mother and her young son fleeing a Mexican drug cartel and travelling to North America. This is an absolute must-read. 5-Stars.
2 April 2022
Oundle Crime recommends
The reading theme was to try an author they’d never read before, and Oundle Crime have obliged by recommending 9 novels including murder mysteries, espionage and psychological thrillers…
29 March 2022
Ascension by Oliver Harris
At the start, this novel looks and feels like a traditional spy story, but it soon morphs into something more akin to a thriller. It’s a really absorbing and well-crafted novel, and our reviewer gives it 5-Stars.
20 March 2022
Fools and Mortals by Bernard Cornwell
A swashbuckling historical adventure that’s built around a good mystery and is so well written that Elizabethan London positively springs off the page.
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