I read Murder in Malmö shortly after reading and enjoying Meet me in Malmö by the same author. All I can say is that if Torquil MacLeod wants to keep on churning out mystery novels with alliterative titles, set in Sweden, I’ll keep reading them. Especially, if they stay relatively cheap on Kindle.
There are lots of books available for the Amazon Kindle at very low prices, or even for free. All too often, it becomes obvious quite quickly why they are not being sold at full price. I normally make it a point of finishing any book that I start reading – but I make an exception […]
I’ve never read anything by Joanne Harris before, but looking round our local lending library, I came across Gentlemen & Players and thought it might be worth a look. There are a lot of interesting, amusing and engaging scenes in the book, but overall, the story which is set in a small private school failed to grip. […]
When you have read all of Peter Robinson’s Inspector Banks novels, the next logical step is to read Caedmon’s Song. This is a fairly hard hitting story which uses the thriller genre to explore some difficult issues. Like many of the Banks books, it has two intertwining threads which are slowly drawn together as the book […]
There was a time when I was an avid reader Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels, but no longer. It could be that I’m getting older and more discerning, but while there is plenty of evidence for the former, there is very little for the latter. Whatever the cause, I no longer buy the latest Pratchett as […]
This isn’t the best novel I’ve read, but it is rather pleasing and well worth investing in if you have to spend a night in a Catholic guest house in Africa with a group of teenagers on the next floor creating mayhem and a Pentecostal pastor in the next room praying and singing in a […]
For some detective writers, the city where the action takes place can be almost as important as the characters in the novel. The Morse books could only be set in Oxford, Inspector Rebus would be lost if he moved out of Edinburgh and Brighton is more or less DI Grace’s side kick. David Mark’s Dark Winter is […]
I write about mission and theology and I muse about Bible translation, but when push comes to shove, my real field of expertise is detective novels. I’ve read lots of Agatha Christie (clever mysteries, dreadful characterization) a fair bit of Simenon (amazing characters, boring mysteries – and in French), all of the Morse books, the whole […]
A few years ago, I found myself spending a few days in a hospital in Northern-Thailand. I wasn’t ill, but there was some concern that I was and it took three days to work it all out. While I was there, some kind friends loaned me some copies of the Shardlake books by C.J. Samson. […]
Raven Black (Shetland Quartet 1) by Ann Cleeves is a thoroughly enjoyable murder mystery with an excellent couple of twists right at the end. If you like a good whodunnit, you won’t be disappointed (especially at the current low price that they Kindle edition is selling for). The book is set on the Shetland Isles (as […]