How do parents protect their children when an innocent mistake could ruin their whole life? Even when that mistake has horrific consequences which are deserving of punishment? That’s the question at the heart of Lisa Scottoline’s new book Keep Quiet..
Archives for November 2014
Sunshine on Leith
19 November 2014 by Leave a Comment
I think it’s somewhere in Scots’ law that if you are a Scot, especially if you no longer live in the home country, you must love The Proclaimers. You don’t have to know many of their songs or even think that they are great singers, but you must be eager at any opportunity to burst into 500 miles or Letter from America…
Hour of Darkness
18 November 2014 by Leave a Comment
When I wrote my first Top Ten Crime Writers article one of the names I included was Quentin Jardine, creator of Edinburgh cop Bob Skinner. I adored the first few books in the Skinner series. Skinner’s Rules and Skinner’s Festival are among the best Scottish crime fiction I’ve ever read…
A Black Bear Killer in Castaway County
17 November 2014 by Leave a Comment
Sherriff Dell Hinton returns with a fresh case to trouble his generally quite quiet and amiable life. Three people have been shot at a truck stop in an apparent robbery gone wrong. Two are dead, a third is in a coma and the community is shocked by such a brutal crime in their midst…