Simon Mayo's Book Review Show

The latest edition of the Simon Mayo's Book Review podcast - hosted by Richard Bacon this week - reviews The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi -the 'true crime' story of Italy's notorious serial killer. Interestingly, none of the panel had heard about the story before. The Euro Crime review, posted in January, is here. One of the senior policeman in the case, Michele Giuttari, now writes a crime series set in Florence and his bibliography is here.

The books podcast can be downloaded or listened to here.

New Reviews; M R Hall, Roberta Kray, Preston & Spezi, Roz Southey

There's a faint theme of 'true crime' about this week's reviews which include: a fiction book written by Roberta Kray and a true crime book about 'The Monster of Florence'...

The following reviews have been added to the review archive over on the main Euro Crime website:

New Reviews:

Maxine Clarke praises highly the debut novel from M R Hall The Coroner which is the first in a several book series starring Jenny Cooper, Coroner and prescription drug addict;

Amanda Brown reviews The Lost by Roberta Kray which has an authenticity about it;

Michelle Peckham reviews the true crime book about the investigation into The Monster of Florence written by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi and the bizarre tack the police took

and Terry Halligan reviews the unusual sounding historical mystery by Roz Southey - Chords and Discords.

Previous reviews can be found in the review archive and forthcoming titles can be found here.

The competition is back - go here to see how you can win a copy of The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri.