Topic

Crime

A collection of 7 issues

'25 May - theme: Was the Book or the Movie better?

The Talented Mr Ripley by Patricia Highsmith I had so many choices of books to read which fit the bill this month but I am very happy I picked this one. Both the book and the movie are superb (insert Jeremy Clarkson's voice here please). This was a

Additional Review C - Our Greatest Living Mystery Writer?

The Searcher by Tana French The book jacket does indeed call Tana French our greatest living mystery writer. It seems a bold claim to make. The book is good, but not that good and not actually that much of a straight forward mystery. I would probably pick someone like Lisa

Additional Review A - British Quiz-show host and comedian becomes a novelist?

We Solve Murders by Richard Osman After having so much fun completing my monthly reading challenge last year, I embarked on some other challenges this year. Namely to visit every library my Wake County Library Card gives me access to. This challenge saw me driving to the other side of

December - theme: Winter (Snow)

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg Time Magazine's "Book of the Year" in 1992. Unfortunately it is not 1992 anymore and while this book might have seemed fresh and genre defining back then, I've read the girl with the dragon

Additional Review 6

Dirty Thirty by Janet Evanovich 30! Yes, she has written and I have read 30 of these guys! Like The Simpsons or SouthPark the characters never age while technology and society changes around them. I have been reading these since I was in Year 8/9! I read the first

Additional Review 4

Bones Of The Lost by Kathy Reichs 10 years! I started this book in 2014 and made it to about the midway mark. Then Tempe went to Afganistan and suddenly all the bones were replaced with black Hawks, IUD's and military bases. Urgh. So there it sat for