I’ve been a fan of Christopher Brookmyre for a number of years now. It was the funny titles such as Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks and All Fun And Games Until Somebody Loses An Eye which first attracted me to the books and the black humour kept me hooked…
Top Ten: 2013 Reads (so far…)
28 June 2013 by 2 Comments
Last week I wrote about my Top Ten Films of 2013 (so far), now it’s time for my Top Ten Reads. Unlike the films list this one isn’t confined to books released this year. I hardly ever read books in the year that they are first published, partly because of the cost of hardback books compared to their paperback counterparts…
Soulseeker
19 February 2013 by Leave a Comment
Just over a year ago I reviewed Sinclair Macleod’s The Reluctant Detective, the first in his series of crime novels set in Glasgow with an insurance investigator who gets caught up in murders. I mentioned in that review that while The Reluctant Detective wasn’t by any stretch of the imagination a cosy mystery nor was it quite dark enough to be categorised as a “tartan noir”…
#BookTwub Review – 27 October 2011
28 October 2011 by Leave a Comment
It was a quiet old night for the #BookTwub. Most people hadn’t read the chosen book Cutting for Stone and so discussion on that was fairly limited. Those who had read it liked it and would recommend to friends, my review is here. I thoroughly enjoyed it….
Top Ten: Crime Writers
19 August 2011 by 9 Comments
Every so often I worry that I’m not a “serious” enough reader. I don’t scour the new literary releases looking for the critics’ choice as my next purchase. I don’t obsessively plough my way through the shortlists of the highbrow book prizes. That’s not to say that I don’t read any literary fiction at all, but offered the choice of a Booker Prize winner or a good crime thriller I’d pick the latter any day of the week.
There is a wealth of enjoyable crime fiction available and hundreds of new and established crime novelists but I tend to find myself returning to the same authors over and over again. Here, in alphabetical order, are my top ten crime writers.