by FOOL | Oct 4, 2021 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
A mix of different crime fiction sub-genres feature in our latest reading recommendations. A Lie for a Lie by Julie CorbinThe story takes place at a large public school in Scotland. The school’s highly respected senior nurse and head of department is suddenly accused...
by FOOL | Sep 30, 2021 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction
A rather traditional police procedural, but none the worse for that! ‘Arnaldur Indridason is the grand old man of Icelandic noir’ The Times A few in our book group have, over the years, read and enjoyed Arnaldur Indridason’s Inspector Erlendur series, so we were...
by FOOL | Sep 4, 2021 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction
An attractive student. An older professor. Think you know the story? Think again. This 2021 book from Cara Hunter was a bit of a surprise. It’s number five in a series about a detective inspector, Adam Fawley, and his team based in Oxford. I’m not too keen on lengthy...
by FOOL | Aug 22, 2021 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction
There’s something irresistible about John Rebus I’d waited so long to get a copy of A Song for the Dark Times by Ian Rankin from the library that the paperback had been published by the time I did. This is the latest Rebus novel, which was published in hardback last...
by FOOL | Aug 9, 2021 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction
A beguiling mystery set in Japan, and featuring ‘Detective Galileo’. A Midsummer’s Equation by Keigo Higashino is a difficult story to describe. The sticker on the front of the paperback proclaimed the author to be ‘The Japanese Stieg Larsson’, which is why I chose it...
by FOOL | Aug 3, 2021 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Thriller
Six books that we read and enjoyed in July. At our last meeting these were six of the books we discussed which we’d read and enjoyed. If you want more information about any of them, just click on the links… The Innocent Dead by Lin AndersonA...
