I’ve not read any of the Scarpetta series for a while, and picked this up for £1 in the staff booksale. Scarpetta continues on from where Book of the Dead left off and there is just as much focus on friends and family as there is on the criminal foe. But the Kay/Marino relationship storyline … Continue reading “Scarpetta – Patricia Cornwell”
Borrowed from Steph in Samarkand at the end of our Central Asia Overland trip, Bones to Ashes was my first taste of Kathy Reichs, and a bit of American medical-based criminal investigation was just what the doctor ordered. Well, apart from the child abuse and pornography that turns out to be behind the deaths of … Continue reading “Bones to Ashes – Kathy Reichs”
Hurrah! A new crime author whose works keep me turning the pages into the wee small hours. John Rebus replaces the somewhat lost Kay Scarpetta and moves alongside the much missed Aurelio Zen to keep company with Commisario Brunetti on my bookshelves. Ian Rankin/Inspector Rebus have both been on my radar for yonks, but for … Continue reading “Black & Blue – Ian Rankin”
The latest Scarpetta novel, and written in a much briefer sentence style which took me a bit of getting used to. The other odd feature which takes some getting used to is Marino’s character change – whilst I don’t think it’s a sudden shift (but I’d need to have read Blow Fly/Trace/Predator more recently to … Continue reading “Book of the Dead – Patricia Cornwell”
Having read all of (now sadly departed) Michael Dibdin’s Aurelio Zen novels, and being up to date with both Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone Alphabet and (to the best of my knowledge – my reading has been a bit hotchpotch here) Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series, I am in need of some fresh crime fiction and … Continue reading “The Black Echo – Michael Connelly”