by FOOL | Feb 1, 2026 | Adventure, Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Fiction, Historical, Thriller
In January we tried to include at least one historical mystery in our reading for the month, so you’ll find these scattered through this list of recommendations. Our choices range from swashbuckling adventures to espionage and cosy crime, and there are several...
by FOOL | Jan 25, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction
I listened to The Island as an e-audiobook on BorrowBox, not realising it was Book 2 of Ragnar Jónasson’s Hidden Iceland trilogy, featuring Reykjavik Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir. Having said that, it still worked as a standalone novel, and because it was...
by FOOL | Jan 2, 2026 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Espionage, Historical
During a cold snap in November, we chose ‘Winter’ as our reading theme for December, agreeing this could encompass anything from Scandi crime to a book that was set in winter, or just had a wintery-sounding title. And at our meeting just before Christmas,...
by FOOL | Dec 13, 2025 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Fiction
Several of us in Oundle Crime enjoy the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling). So far there are eight books, with The Hallmarked Man being the latest. Since the first novel – The Cuckoo’s Calling – was published in 2013 we’ve followed the...
by FOOL | Dec 7, 2025 | Crime Fiction, Detective Fiction, Psychological Thriller, Thriller
Named ‘Best Book of the Summer’ by several major US newspapers, El Dorado Drive is the latest novel by Megan Abbott, an American crime writer who has a number of well-received books to her name. Published earlier this year, it’s a tense, dark story of menace, murder,...
