by FOOL | Sep 11, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Espionage, Fiction
Gabriel’s Moon by William Boyd was a book I saw recommended in a newspaper’s Best Books for Summer Reading list and it took me by surprise. It is – as you’d expect – beautifully written and completely gripping. Yet afterwards, when telling a friend about it, I...
by FOOL | Sep 4, 2026 | Crime Fiction, Fiction
This is the latest book by the Australian author, Jane Harper, who wrote the award-winning novel The Lost Man. I found her last two books less riveting than that, but it seems to me she’s back on top form with this one. Last One Out is excellent! So good, in fact,...
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 | 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...
