New Reviews: Hill, McCoy, Monroe, Theorin, Tursten, White

Here are this week's new reviews:

Latest Reviews:

After seeing Suzette A Hill at CrimeFest in June, I knew I had to try her series which features 'talking animals'. The first one in the series is A Load of Old Bones and didn't disappoint though most of the story is in fact told by a human;

Terry Halligan reviews the latest in the 'Mad' Carew series from Ken McCoy: Loser calling it an "enjoyable, hard to put down book";

Pat Austin, really, really didn't like Blood Lines by Grace Monroe but managed to finish it out of public duty to the rest of us;

In contrast, the pressure's being applied, first by Maxine, and now by Norman Price to find the time asap to read Johan Theorin's Echoes from the Dead - Norman writes that it was "the most gripping crime fiction novel I have read so far this year";

Maxine Clarke's now up to date (for the moment) with the English translations of Helene Tursten's Inspector Huss series with the latest, The Glass Devil, in which Huss spends a lot of time in England

and Amanda Gillies enjoys the second book from Neil White: Lost Souls and finds it as good as his debut, Fallen Idols.

New Competition on Euro Crime

I've just been given the go-ahead to offer up 4 copies of Grace Monroe's Blood Lines. The catch, as usual, is a tricky question...Entrants from UK and Europe only please and the closing date is 5 July. Still running is a competition for Death on a Branch Line by Andrew Martin and there are no geograpical restrictions on this one.
Enter the competitions - here!

New Year Reviews

Here are this week's new reviews and details of January's competition:

Latest Reviews:

I review The Patience of the Spider by Andrea Camilleri which isn't one of the stronger ones in my opinion but still a good read;

Maxine Clarke reviews what could be the stand-out translated crime novel of the year: The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson;

Donna Leon uber-fan, Norman Price, gives his verdict on Suffer the Little Children;

If Maxine's review of The Mystery Writer by Jessica Mann doesn't entice you to read it, then nothing will

and Pat Austin feels that Grace Monroe's Brodie McClennan series has potential, based on Dark Angels, once they get the Dan Brown nonsense out of their system.


Current Competition (closing date 31 January):

Win a copy of Bad Traffic by Simon Lewis (UK & Europe only)

(geographical restrictions are in brackets)