by FOOL | Apr 28, 2024 | Action Thriller, Classic Crime, Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
Twelve titles to tempt you? We didn’t have a reading theme in April, but here’s a list of the 12 books we chatted about at our meeting. Rivers of London by Ben Aaronvitch“What a weird book!” said Norfolk Gal. The protagonist, Peter Grant, works in the London...
by FOOL | Apr 1, 2024 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
Six books we chatted about in March – from fun Cosy Crime to gruesome murders Here’s the second instalment of our blog with reading recommendations from our meeting in March. This covers authors H-T. Dark Waters by G. R. HallidayIn the Highlands of Scotland, DI...
by FOOL | Mar 5, 2024 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Historical, Thriller
Eight books we discussed at our February meeting. Some good, some not so good! Our theme in February was book titles which had a location in them. Not all the titles we read were worth including in this but the books we did chat about are listed below, alphabetically...
by FOOL | Feb 2, 2024 | Action Thriller, Classic Crime, Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Humour
Our first six reading recommendations for 2024 … A large chunk of our meeting in January was taken up with discussing two books we’d been sent by publishers to read and review. (Click the links to find out more about Gaslight by Femi Kayode and Back of Beyond by C.J....
by FOOL | Jan 16, 2024 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Humour
A light-hearted Cosy Crime novel that’s both clever and entertaining I’m not normally a fan of Cosy Crime, usually finding them unbearably ‘twee’ with cardboard-cut-out characters and settings. I thought even the really popular Thursday Murder Club series by Richard...
by FOOL | Dec 4, 2023 | Classic Crime, Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
‘M’ was for murder: Oundle Crime’s reading theme in November In November we read books with the word ‘murder’ in the title, which were actually harder to find in our library than we’d thought. Maybe it was just the wrong day! Whatever the case, we all ended up reading...
