Amanda Gillies reviews The Moses Stone by James Becker, an excellent follow-up to The First Apostle;Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.
Maxine Clarke reviews Petra Hammesfahr's The Lie which she found didn't live up to the promise of The Sinner;
Terry Halligan reviews Fat Blackmail by Bruce Kennedy Jones and Eric Allison the sequel to The Last Straight Face;
Michelle Peckham reviews the recent paperback release of The Slaughter Pavilion by Catherine Sampson, set in China;
Amanda Brown reviews the paperback edition of Steven Saylor's The Triumph of Caesar, the latest in his Gordianus the Finder series
and Norman Price reviews The Ignorance of Blood by Robert Wilson the final book in the Javier Falcon quartet.
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Showing posts with label Catherine Sampson. Show all posts
Sunday, October 11, 2009
New Reviews: Becker, Hammesfahr, Jones & Allison, Sampson, Saylor, Wilson
The settings for this week's books include the UK, Spain, Germany, Italy, Israel and China:
Saturday, September 06, 2008
New Reviews: Mike Ripley's round-up, Carofiglio, Charney, Holt, Sampson and Tremayne
Here are this week's new reviews and a reminder of this month's new competition:
Latest Reviews:
In Mike Ripley's latest crime file he reviews The Minutes of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard, October Skies by Alex Scarrow and Ashes To Ashes by Barbara Nadel;
Amanda Gillies joins the Gianrico Carofiglio fan club with her review of the paperback edition of the standalone The Past is a Foreign Country and recommends that "you go out to buy it today";
Laura Root reviews The Art Thief by American historian Noah Charney which jaunts across Europe with refreshingly little bloodshed;
Sunnie Gill reviews the seventeenth in the long running Sheila Malory series by Hazel Holt: A Death in the Family ;
Maxine Clarke reviews The Slaughter Pavilion by Catherine Sampson which is set mainly in China and the lead characters, Song, Wolf and Blue, have all come from the previous book, The Pool of Unease; Maxine says the author has come into her own with this book
and our regular historical crime fiction reviewer, Terry Halligan says that Peter Tremayne's The Council of the Cursed is the best historical mystery he's ever read.
Current Competition:
Win a copy of Nemesis by Jo Nesbo*
* no geographical restrictions on entrants (ends 30 September)
Latest Reviews:
In Mike Ripley's latest crime file he reviews The Minutes of the Lazarus Club by Tony Pollard, October Skies by Alex Scarrow and Ashes To Ashes by Barbara Nadel;
Amanda Gillies joins the Gianrico Carofiglio fan club with her review of the paperback edition of the standalone The Past is a Foreign Country and recommends that "you go out to buy it today";
Laura Root reviews The Art Thief by American historian Noah Charney which jaunts across Europe with refreshingly little bloodshed;
Sunnie Gill reviews the seventeenth in the long running Sheila Malory series by Hazel Holt: A Death in the Family ;
Maxine Clarke reviews The Slaughter Pavilion by Catherine Sampson which is set mainly in China and the lead characters, Song, Wolf and Blue, have all come from the previous book, The Pool of Unease; Maxine says the author has come into her own with this book
and our regular historical crime fiction reviewer, Terry Halligan says that Peter Tremayne's The Council of the Cursed is the best historical mystery he's ever read.
Current Competition:
Win a copy of Nemesis by Jo Nesbo*
* no geographical restrictions on entrants (ends 30 September)
Sunday, April 06, 2008
New Reviews & April's Competitions
Here are this week's new reviews and details of the two new competitions for April (with no geographical restrictions):
Latest Reviews:
It's time for Mike Ripley's March Crime File in which he reviews A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr, Silesian Station by David Downing, The Mesmerist's Apprentice by L M Jackson and Orpheus Rising by Colin Bateman;
I review the latest Bryant and May title by Christopher Fowler to make it onto audiobook: Ten-Second Staircase - I just love this series which is so well narrated by Tim Goodman;
New Euro Crime reviewer Amanda Gillies opens her account with her take on Allan Guthrie's Savage Night, calling it "noir fiction at its best";
Fiona Walker provides the low down on the latest antics of Dalziel and Pascoe in Reginald Hill's A Cure For All Diseases and explains why she found it "mostly brilliant";
Maxine reviews Brian McGilloway's follow up to Borderlands - Gallows Lane which "leaves the reader looking forward to more"
and Maxine loved the latest offering from Catherine Sampson The Pool of Unease which takes the series character to China.
Current Competitions (closing date 30 April):
Win a copy of The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin
Win a copy of An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
(there are no geographical restrictions on entrants)
Latest Reviews:
It's time for Mike Ripley's March Crime File in which he reviews A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr, Silesian Station by David Downing, The Mesmerist's Apprentice by L M Jackson and Orpheus Rising by Colin Bateman;
I review the latest Bryant and May title by Christopher Fowler to make it onto audiobook: Ten-Second Staircase - I just love this series which is so well narrated by Tim Goodman;
New Euro Crime reviewer Amanda Gillies opens her account with her take on Allan Guthrie's Savage Night, calling it "noir fiction at its best";
Fiona Walker provides the low down on the latest antics of Dalziel and Pascoe in Reginald Hill's A Cure For All Diseases and explains why she found it "mostly brilliant";
Maxine reviews Brian McGilloway's follow up to Borderlands - Gallows Lane which "leaves the reader looking forward to more"
and Maxine loved the latest offering from Catherine Sampson The Pool of Unease which takes the series character to China.
Current Competitions (closing date 30 April):
Win a copy of The Death Maze by Ariana Franklin
Win a copy of An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson
(there are no geographical restrictions on entrants)
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