I get to read so much!

Last week I finished another nephew present - Alex, the Dog and the Unopenable Door, the first book by Ross Montgomery. Alex Jennings lives in a town on the outskirts of which is The Forbidden Land. If anyone tries to travel across the border dividing the town and The Forbidden Land, they are physically forced back and ( Read more... )

The Blind Goddess (Blind gudinne) is a Norwegian crime novel, the first in a series about Detective Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen by Anne Holt. Strangely, I felt the main character was actually a solicitor, Karen Borg, or perhaps Håkon Sand, a police lawyer. Karen discovers a body while walking her dog one morning in Oslo. When a suspect is found ( Read more... )

S is for Silence, is the 19th book by Sue Grafton featuring Kinsey Milhone. I haven’t read many in this series so didn’t know this one is unusual until I read some reviews. Unlike the others there are sections, flashbacks to the past, which are written in the third-person. Kinsey takes on a case that her friend, Tannie, brings to her. Tannie’s ( Read more... )

Camilla Läckberg's 5th book featuring featuring policeman Patrick Hedström and his writer wife Erica Falck is The Hidden Child. Patrick is on paternity leave, looking after his and Erica's daughter Maja. Hedstrom's wife Erica has discovered her mother's old wartime diaries in their attic, along with a Nazi medal and a blood stained baby shirt. ( Read more... )

And one from February. I remembered I hadn't read any of Donna Leon's Commissario Brunetti books for a while so looked for any I may have missed. I found Acqua Alta, #5 in the series. Brunetti hears that American Brett Lynch, a friend since a case at La Fenice, has been badly beaten. She was left with a warning to not keep her appointment with ( Read more... )