Today I’m welcoming Lee Cockburn to the blog to discuss ‘Porcelain’. This is Lee’s second crime story featuring Detective Sergeant Taylor Nicks and this post is part of the blog tour. Want to know more? Here’s the blurb: High-powered businessmen are turning up tortured around the city of Edinburgh with one specific thing in common — […]
Occasionally, a book can become a victim of its own publicity. Clare Mackintosh’s dramatic debut novel, ‘I Let You Go’, has been extensively marketed and reviewed as containing an ‘astonishing‘ and ‘shocking‘ twist. So, as a reader of many crime thrillers and psychological suspense stories containing big twists, I was obviously On Guard for hints […]
Blurbs can be tricky things: they often reveal too much, but sometimes they hint too little at key aspects of the tale within. Having recently read and mostly enjoyed Gillian Flynn’s thriller ‘Gone Girl’ I was keen to explore her back catalogue. ‘Sharp Objects’ is her debut novel – and it’s even darker than the […]