The Midnight Feast

Lucy Foley is an interesting author. The Midnight Feast is her seventh standalone novel, and her three previous novels have all been nominated or shortlisted for awards in the UK and overseas. I’ve read several of her books and enjoyed them, and I found this one to be...

The Last Ride

I don’t think I’ve read a book by the British author, Nick Louth that I haven’t thought excellent. And The Last Ride, which was published in 2024, is no exception. I was immersed in the story from the first few pages – so much so, that putting the book down was a real...

Other People’s Houses

Before picking up Other People’s Houses, I’d never read anything by British author Clare Mackintosh, but it turns out this is her eighth novel, and the third to feature DC Ffion Morgan. This mystery was a mix of different police investigations tangling...

The Castle

John Sutherland, author of The Castle, was an experienced and high-ranking police officer and hostage and crisis negotiator, who is now retired. He’s written several books (fiction and non-fiction) of which this is the latest. And in this, like his other thrillers, he...

Miss Winter in the Library

I’m not normally a fan of books by Martin Edwards, but Miss Winter in the Library with a Knife had such a cheerful cover that I was seduced into trying it. And actually, I thought it was pretty good. Written in the tradition of Golden Age crime fiction, it’s full of...