Archive for June, 2010
Peter Robinson, Strange Affair
Strange Affair is the 15th installment in the inspector Banks novels. This series has its ups and downs. It started as a pleasant new detective series with Gallows View, and became a more serious rival to the best mystery series over the years. It culminated, in my opinion, with Aftermath, a masterpiece of suspense and [...]
Mary Lawson, The Other Side of the Bridge
Much of what was in the books must have been completely beyond her – she had never had a day’s schooling in her life – but still she read them, and struggled to understand. I was impressed by that, even as a child. Now I find it touching as well. That hunger for knowledge, that [...]
Peter James, Dead simple
Dead simple begins with a stag night going very, very wrong. Michael Harrison is about to get married to beautiful Ashley Harper. Since he is a practical joker himself, his friends have decided to take revenge, put him in a coffin, and bury him for a couple of hours, just time for them to get [...]