Book review: The Devil All the Time and other summer reading pleasures
No matter how stressful the Christmas/New Year period is (and mine has been pretty stressful for reasons I won’t go into here) there’s always the chance to read. This year’s been no exception. I...
View ArticleMy top crime reads of 2012
What’s the end of a year without a best of post? Recently, I was asked by UK site Crime Fiction Lover to list my top crime reads for 2012. They would only let me pick five, but obviously I’ve read a...
View ArticleBook review: Wake in Fright
Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. While it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961...
View ArticleBook review: The Devil All the Time and other summer reading pleasures
No matter how stressful the Christmas/New Year period is (and mine has been pretty stressful for reasons I won’t go into here) there’s always the chance to read. This year’s been no exception. I...
View ArticleMy top crime reads of 2012
What’s the end of a year without a best of post? Recently, I was asked by UK site Crime Fiction Lover to list my top crime reads for 2012. They would only let me pick five, but obviously I’ve read a...
View ArticleBook review: Wake in Fright
Rural noir is big at the moment, if the interest in US writers like Donald Ray Pollock, Cormac McCarthy and Daniel Woodrell, is anything to go by. While it is not be as well known, Kenneth Cook’s 1961...
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