Book reviews

A bloody account

I’m a sucker for a bargain and free is as good as it gets. But if my Kindle experience had taught me anything it’s that

An introduction is in order

Many, many years ago, in another life, an old friend came to visit me in Anchorage, Alaska. We spent a week or so travelling around,

The spinning heart

Never backward about coming forward when asked for my opinion, it usually doesn’t take me long to share whatever it is that’s being asked of

2015 Grateful 50: CJ Sansom

Blessed is [s]he who never expects anything, for [s]he shall never be disappointed. Heady words indeed. Words, in fact, I have mistakenly attributed for many

The stuff nightmares are made of

WTF?!* Had I been doing anything more than a sedate 25 mph on this relatively remote stretch of a very minor Austrian road, I might

Domestic cosiness and blood-curdling horror

Until very recently, Camilla Läckberg played no part in my world. I didn’t know her from Eve. And, had I been pushed to guess where she’s

Who’s been in my bed lately?

Yesterday, apparently, was International Translators’ Day. I missed it. It’s not a UN International Day so it wasn’t on my list of observances. It was

2013 Grateful 18

I’ve spent a lot of time this week with the ever-so-lovely Finlay McLeod (Fionnlaigh, to his Gaelic-speaking friends, and Fin to his English-speaking friends). He’s