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 11, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Espionage, Fiction
Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd was a book I saw recommended in a newspaper’s Best Books for Summer Reading list and it took me by surprise. It is – as you’d expect – beautifully written and completely gripping. Yet afterwards, when telling a friend about it, I...
by FOOL | Sep 4, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Fiction
This is the latest book by the Australian author, Jane Harper, who wrote the award-winning novel The Lost Man. I found her last two books less riveting than that, but it seems to me she’s back on top form with this one. Last One Out is excellent! So good, in fact,...
