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...
by FOOL | Jun 12, 2026 | Historical, Non-fiction
I know that on these pages we mostly talk about crime fiction. The book reviews are, after all, mostly written by the Oundle Crime Book Group. But on and off I like to tell you about something else I have read. This time it is a piece of astonishing non-fiction called...
by FOOL | Mar 22, 2026 | Fiction, Historical
The Map of Bones is the final novel of the Joubert Family Chronicles, a series of four books by the British author, Kate Mosse. It couldn’t really be described as crime fiction, although many crimes are committed in the story. Instead, it is the closing chapters...
by FOOL | Mar 12, 2026 | Fiction, Historical, Humour
Let me say straight off that Small Bomb at Dimperley by Lissa Evans is not crime fiction. Far from it. It caught my eye on the shelf at Oundle Library recently, so I borrowed it on a whim. It is an ideal book to read on a rainy Sunday afternoon in winter, being easy,...
