the setup… I learned in the prequel how important family is to Private Investigator Margo Angelhart but in the ensuing years, a lot has changed. She’s estranged from the family private investigatio…

Synopsis:”Murder and mystery lurk in the hills and on the shores of Devon and Cornwall in Agatha Christie’s finest countryside stories. Growing up in Torquay, Agatha Christie’s love of the We…

About the Book Two girls, born thousands of miles apart in Kazakhstan and Japan just after World War II, meet and are like peas in a pod. They also get on like sisters and keep in touch for the rest of their lives. However, one wants to help her battle-scarred country and the other wants to leave hers for the West.

Mix Tape by Jane Sanderson is published and Transworld/Bantam is is out now. My copy is actually a proof from *embarrassed blush* 2020. It was one of my most highly anticipated reads of that year b…

I’m delighted to be joined by Michael Wendroff today, author of What Goes Around. What Goes Around was published by Head of Zeus in October 2024 and available now in all formats: full details…

After the fabulous time at Chiltern Kills last weekend, this week has been somewhat of an anticlimax. Work, work and more work pretty much sums things up. Put what I hope are the finishing touches …

Source: Review copyPublication: 25 September 2025 fromPP: 656ISBN-13: 978-1035074624 My thanks to Pan MacMillan for a review copyIn Cornwall, a man suffers a violent death – and the killer may lurk…

I have come to really enjoy this police procedural series set mainly in the Stoke-On-Trent area of Staffordshire. The protagonist, Kate Young is a very complex character. Recently widowed, she stil…

I’ve been meaning to read The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri since it came out, but life has always intervened. Today, however, I am delighted to share my review as The Beekeeper of Aleppo …

The virgin rainforest seems a paradise to Englishman Simon Corbett. A last chance to salvage his career. A final refuge from a terrible secret.But the jungle is no Eden. It hides secrets of its own…

Today I am sharing my thoughts on the short story, Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd. It was a bonus read as part of the Amazon Prime First Reads promotion, and a very happy bonus it was too. Here’s w…

Happy Monday!! Today I’m resharing my review from 2016(!!!!!!!) of Jack Jordan’s second psych-thriller My Girl.

In deciding what to call this post I went for a more cultured approach to my usual, and opted to quote the first line of John Keats poem ‘To Autumn’. It’s a poem that captures the…

Book Gifts are always wonderful to receive at any time of the year and I highly recommend these three gorgeous new hardbacks.

Saturdays at the Café is a weekly feature hosted here to talk about and discuss the books I’ve discovered during the past week, added to my shelf and am excited about reading. They may be new/sched…

Regular readers of the blog will know that I am a big fan of Jane Lovering’s writing. In fact, her book How I Wonder What You Are was one of the first books I reviewed on the blog way back in…

Welcome to the Sunday Stills feature hosted by Terri at This week’s prompt is black/black and white/monochrome or desaturated. Some images from the Lake District A beautiful Snowy Owl A black…