‘Kneeling in the fragrant moist grass of the village green Clara Morrow carefully hid the Easter egg and thought about raising the dead, which she planned to do right after supper.’ Welcome back to Three Pines, a village in Quebec only discovered by those who need it. In this, the third book in the series, […]
What a killer premise! An injured man stumbles into a remote Australian police station. He has fought his way through the wilderness after being drugged and kidnapped, somehow managing to escape from a cabin in the mountains where he was chained. His name is Gabriel and he is fleeing a man called Heath, who threatened […]
As a parent / guardian, you want your children to be happy. More than that, you want them to be able to create their own secure, inner happiness that isn’t dependent upon treats and toys – lovely though a well-timed ice cream can be! How can we do this? The authors believe they have some […]
‘We are more alike than different.’ This is the essence of Dr Adshead’s argument: that while it is easier to write off certain criminals as monsters, it is essential to admit their humanity and recognise the value of rehabilitation over our instinctive desire for vengeance. Of course, this is easier said than done, but Dr […]
How do you electrocute someone on a frozen lake, in front of dozens of witnesses? Equally significant, perhaps, is why. Why choose such a complicated murder method? Why choose to risk carrying out such a dangerous act in front of such a large audience? The local police in sleepy Three Pines – a small, Quebecois […]
We all know that images can be crafted. Public personas can be exactly that – a carefully crafted creation, shaped for and by an adoring public. Celebrity Lara King knows all about fame: how to get it, how to keep it and how to manipulate it. Then her daughter vanishes…and the persona begins to unravel. […]
One abandoned baby. Two sisters with a secret. The ‘Munro Baby Mystery’ has been a wonderful money spinner for the Doughty sisters for over 70 years, but when family matriarch Connie Doughty dies, her younger sister Rose begins to wonder whether it’s time to tell the truth… What’s it about? Once upon a time, two […]
In 2018 I celebrated the joys of Crimefest in person and in an excited blog post. Fast forward to 2022 and I’m still loving Crimefest, but this year my lovely friend Mar visited with me and here is their take on it all! *** Crimefest is a fun-filled weekend-long crime fiction event, with a variety […]
It’s the middle of the night and there’s a shadow looming over the bed. Of course, it’s only Margret, a child who suffers nightmares, come to inform her mother there’s a man in the house. A bad man, because who else would be there at this time of night? Elisa drags herself out of bed […]
I have recently discovered the joy of audiobooks. ‘Child A’, read in a perfectly disinterested fashion by Holliday Grainger worked really well in this format. The jumps in time were often confusing and disconcerting, but on reflection I think they were meant to be. After all, Lex Gracie is not a straightforward narrator… What’s it […]