Here are this week's new reviews:
Maxine Clarke reviews The Serpent Pool by Martin Edwards, fourth in his Lakeland series which Maxine believes is "is one of the very best crime-fiction series being written today";Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.
Terry Halligan reviews Peter Grimsdale debut novel, Perfect Night;
Amanda Gillies is very enthusiastic about Allan Guthrie's Slammer;
Paul Blackburn reviews Bill Kitson's debut Depth of Despair set in Yorkshire;
Rik Shepherd reviews the paperback edition of The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona Maclean and
Michelle Peckham reviews Henning Mankell's The Man Who Smiled, tr. Laurie Thompson and compares it to the tv show.
Some very good reviews in here - Amanda really likes that Allan Guthrie book! And having read The Man Who Smiled and seen the awful TV version, I think Michelle has it spot-on.
ReplyDeleteI definitely cannot recommend these Martin Edwards books highly enough to anyone who likes a good crime story!
Two points from this weeks reviews Maxine has convinced me I must read more Martin Edwards.
ReplyDeleteAnd although I haven't read any Mankell for years I agree the Branagh series was not the BBC's finest hour.
Some sneaky online browsing's kicked up something interesting... Is it correct that you're a judge for this year's International Dagger??
ReplyDeletemight be :).
ReplyDeleteI'm sold on reading the Martin Edwards' book as reviewed here and starting with the first book.
ReplyDeleteHave to see if the public library here has the series and, if not, go to plan B, and checking out Amazon and the local mystery bookshop.