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 | Aug 29, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Humour, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Three-word titles was the theme this month, although we decided we could disregard the word ‘the’ in the title if it made it a little easier to find books we actually wanted to read … because one-word-titles we attempted earlier in the year had been quite a...
by FOOL | Aug 13, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction
Barbara Nadel is an award-winning British author whose Inspector Ikmen series inspired an eight-part BBC TV series – The Turkish Detective. To date, Nadel has written 28 mysteries about the now ex-inspector Çetin Ikmen and Serpent’s Tongue is the latest, published in...
by FOOL | Jul 31, 2026 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
It’s summer, so naturally we chose exotic or holiday locations as our reading theme in July. Some of our choices are new books and a few were published quite a while ago, but the thing they all have in common is that we enjoyed reading them and think you might do so...
by FOOL | Jul 3, 2026 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction, Historical, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Each year the Crime Writers’ Association (CWA) runs a Crime Reading Month in June, and this year, as part of the National Year of Reading, it was also Jury June. Fair to say June was a month tailor-made for our book group! Oundle Library made the most of things with a...
