Forever Nigh: Circles of Confusion II Jilly Graham has buried the terrible events of the past at the back of her mind. She doesn’t feel guilt or remorse because she doesn’t allow herself to think about the night someone died because of her desire for revenge. Nothing stays hidden forever, though, and when Leon arrivesContinue reading “It’s payback time …”
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Picture this …
Today, I’ve been amusing myself by making advertisements for some of my books. I love messing about in Photoshop and, at one time, I would have been using my own photographs as backgrounds but macular degeneration put paid to that so, nowadays, I’ve made friends with Getty Images instead. Anyway, these are the results ofContinue reading “Picture this …”
Nightshade: Michael Connelly
Location: A small town on Catalina island. Lots of descriptions of the area, name dropping of local landmarks and a mass of boating terms. It’s a first novel in a new series. I get it. But to fill the opening chapters with terminology that will be unfamiliar to most readers makes for a very slowContinue reading “Nightshade: Michael Connelly”
The 4MK Trilogy: J D Barker
I waited until I had listened to all three of the 4MK Killer trilogy before writing a review. What started off in book one, The Four Monkey Killer, as a more-than-average serial killer story morphed into a surreal, fairly muddled storm of death and destruction in book two, The Fifth to Die, before settling intoContinue reading “The 4MK Trilogy: J D Barker”
Fill your Kindle for summer!
To celebrate the onset of summer – and I’m convinced it’s going to be a fantastic one – I have reduced all my ebooks to 99 pence until the end of summer. As I have a grasshopper mind, there’s a selection of genres to choose from – or download them all and just go withContinue reading “Fill your Kindle for summer!”
The Children of Eve: John Connolly
Charlie Parker is a bystander in this tale of kidnapped, mummified children and the hunt by some sort of deity to recover the, There are lots o bad characters on a sort of hierarchy where the most evil are killing off the lesser evil in grotesquely violent ways. Connolly devotes a fair bit of timeContinue reading “The Children of Eve: John Connolly”
A very evocative photograph
This photograph, by the hugely talented David Baker, took me back to a day, many years ago, when I stood on the beach at Inch, near Dublin. The landscape was composed entirely of sand, sea and sky. The only things disturbing the serenity of the scene were me with my camera and some jackeen who’dContinue reading “A very evocative photograph”
Tom Lundy, the ‘Cut’ and toffee apples
A lot of the background material in Ashes in the Tongue comes from my childhood in Banbridge in County Down. One of my early memories, which didn’t make it into the book, is of being wrapped up warmly on a winter’s night to witness the burning of Tom Lundy (Robert Lundy, died 1717). In 1950s NorthernContinue reading “Tom Lundy, the ‘Cut’ and toffee apples”
A Pair of Kings
Holly by Stephen King. I had already read this book but was quite happy to listen to it again as (1) listening is quite a different experience to reading and (2) Holly Gibney is one of my favourite King characters. Jerome and Barbara are good back-ups for her but they’re just a little too perfect.Continue reading “A Pair of Kings”
Nobody’s Fool: Harlan Coben
Twenty two years ago, Sami Pierce woke up to find his girlfriend, Anna, dead in the bed beside him, her body awash with blood. After he reported this to the police and returned to the scene, the body had disappeared. On his father’s advice, Sami left the country, returned yo America and got on withContinue reading “Nobody’s Fool: Harlan Coben”
JJ Grafton 