When a young woman is found lying half-naked in the snow, bleeding and unconscious, and a highly esteemed, elderly writer falls to his death in the local theatre, Ari is dragged straight into the heart of a community where he can trust no one, and secrets and lies are a way of life. An avalancheContinue reading “Snowblind by Ragnar Jonasson, translated by Quentin Bates”
Monthly Archives: February 2016
The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti
Erykah Macdonald has a nice life – the kind of life you’re meant to want. But on her twentieth wedding anniversary, she’s about to cross a line. Several hundred miles away in the shallow waters of a Hebridean island, a body is found. It’s been in the water long enough to make identification tricky butContinue reading “The Turning Tide by Brooke Magnanti”
Reviewer’s Dilemma
Can’t exactly classify this as a problem, but I realised while I was away over Christmas that I have a huge backlog of books that I want to read but haven’t got round to. And the reason for that is that the books I am reviewing take precedence in my reading, so that I canContinue reading “Reviewer’s Dilemma”
Live and Deadly 