So what happened at the end there, Val? Why that infernal rush? Did you suddenly become aware that you were on your way towards producing a minor brick, or did your publisher tell you to cut it short? There we were, sailing nicely along in the usual 4-stars-or-higher bracket into which this serie...
This is a hugely popular series & like most of its kind, you probably enjoy some instalments more than others. I’ve read them all & this was not one of my favourites but that may be down to the format of the story more than content which I’ll try to explain. If you read the last one, no doubt you ...
For some reason, this book is listed as the first of the "Karen Pirie" series. I'd read one further along the line (#5, I think it was) and figured to try to begin at the beginning. Karen Pirie has only a couple of cameo appearances in this book. Weird. So, we begin in 1978. Four extremely inebriate...
This is the second in the Tony Hill/Carol Jordan series, and also the book that the tv show took its name from. We see Tony in charge of training young officers in a profiling task force and Carol has also started a new job. The two haven't seen each other since the events that unfolded at the end...
A big thank you to Moonlight Reader for yet another fun, inventive BookLikes game! I had a wonderful time, while also advancing -- though with decidedly fewer new reads than I'd origianlly been planning -- my two main reading goals for this year (classic crime fiction and books written by women). ...
Series: Inspector Karen Pirie #2 There's nothing really wrong with this cold case mystery book, but it felt like it dragged on. I guess I just wasn't all that fussed about the constant jumping back and forth between the past and present rather than watching the police discover the story. Now, I'm ...
Didn't love it, didn't hate it. Enjoyed it well enough, I suppose.This series of books is the basis for the British television series Wire in the Blood. This book in particular is the basis for the first two episodes of the show. If you've seen the show, you know a bit about what to expect in the bo...
Turns out I already knew five of the ten stories in this anthology: Ellis Peters's The Trinity Cat Julian Symons's The Santa Claus Club Ian Rankin's No Sanity Clause G.K. Chesterton's The Dagger With Wings and Marjorie Bowen's Cambric Tea. So I skipped those (though I do really like the storie...
I have so many thoughts about this book and they're scattered all over the joint. It occurred to me as I finally finished reading it that we sometimes come at books in much the same way faulty investigators come at a crime scene: we take in the initial information (in our case, the title, cover ...
I had long rants going through my head on pretty much every page of this book while I was reading, but bottom line, it just doesn't deserve the attention of my detailing them. I like McDermid's crime fiction (most of it, anyway) and I'd very much wish she'd stick to that in the future. There is en...
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