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 | Aug 9, 2026 | Fiction
In 2008, Aravind Adiga’s debut novel – The White Tiger – won the Booker prize. It’s a brilliant book, but not crime fiction, although there is a killing in it. Rather it is a story of India in the very recent past. In places it’s difficult to read, but I...
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 17, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Fiction, Psychological Thriller
Lisa Jewell is a popular and prolific writer who started out writing romance and general fiction before switching to mystery and thrillers some years later. When you read the synopsis on the back of this 2025 thriller – Don’t Let Him In – you could be excused for...
by FOOL | Jul 10, 2026 | Cosy Crime, Crime Fiction, Fiction
Earlier this year, I read Jeremy Vine’s debut novel (Murder on Line One) and really rather liked it. Turn the Dial for Death is the follow-up and it is – in my view – less accomplished. Yes, it’s okay to read, but not as good as the debut novel. As before, the story...
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...
