Could it? After all, police officers are there to uphold the law, not bend it to their own devices or desires. However, the more often I read about cases like this, where an undercover officer had a relationship with a woman, whilst operating undercover using an assumed identity, the more I realise that that ain't [...]
Don't you just hate it when you find a book with a cover so awful that you very nearly don't read it at all? This happened with 'Boulevard' - the copy I picked up in the library had a photo of a young man on the front that was so 'blond brain-dead Eighties porno-flick twink' [...]
Okay, I’ll admit it - this book had me baffled. It was billed as a fictionalised biography based on the diaries of a real-life actor, Mark Sheridan, as written by his descendant Alan Sheridan, but I have to admit I couldn’t tell if this was the case, or if it was really just a novel [...]
I bought this book just before we went on holiday to the Lake District, because it happens to be set in... the Lake District! There's a lovely sepia photo of a lakeland scene on the cover, and the story it tells is one of human drama and tragedy in the 1930s, when the Manchester City [...]
I read Mills' 'The Savage Garden' last year and thoroughly enjoyed it (a garden *and* a mystery - what's not to like *g*) so when I saw another title by the same author I grabbed it. Oddly, it isn't a follow-up; 'The Whaleboat House' is actually his first novel, republished under a different title. I [...]
I first came across this author when a friend gave me her first novel, 'Birth of Venus', for Christmas. Straight away I loved her style of writing, but in that case found the story a little too tragic. Thankfully, 'Courtesan' has none of the same aching sense of sadness and wasted lives, being a bawdy, [...]
Finding this book at all was something of a happy accident, since I’d never even heard of the author, let alone the title. This isn’t really surprising as Hilu is an Israeli writer and Death of a Monk was translated from Hebrew by an American scholar. Browsing the shelves of an Aladdin’s cave of a [...]
