The Saltmarsh Muders by Gladys Mitchell Out now in paperback from Vintage The Saltmarsh Murders is one of six books reprinted (so far) in the Mrs Bradley Mysteries series by Gladys Mitchell. I’m not sure what made Vintage decide to do it but I’m glad they did. These books have been the inspiration for a [...]
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Green Review: Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas (Vintage)
Have Mercy on Us All by Fred Vargas Out Now in Paperback from Vintage Firstly I have to say I’m ashamed of myself. No, I really am. When do you think I read the last book in this series? JUNE 2009! Let me say that another way. It’s been over 14 months. I know time [...]
Update: What I'm juggling, I mean reading
Though it does feel a bit like juggling. I’ve been stupid and been dipping into several books that I’ve been meaning to get to for a while and one or two brand new ones. This is a break in my usual routine of keeping two books going at the same time so that I can [...]
Release Round-Up: Missing from May and New to June, Mostly
I had a request for more summary posts on the blog rather than spreading promotional posts out of over the month. You might still see a few promotional posts this month either because I’ve only just heard about a book and it can’t wait until July or that I’ve forgotten about it and I want [...]
Review: Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas (Vintage)
Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas Published by Vintage Books – Out Now Returning to the next books in a series is always a bit nerve racking especially as Fred Vargas cleverly lead me up the garden path and then threw me off the edge of a cliff in her last one. It’s [...]
Feature: Richard & Judy Book Club Summer Reads 2009
I don’t really take too much notice of Richard & Judy’s Book Club, not that there is anything wrong with it but usually they don’t spark too much interest on the radar. But the Summer Reads have a couple of genre-touching titles you might like. Mystery Man by Colin Bateman Published by Headline [...]
Promo: Glister by John Burnside (Vintage)
Glister by John BurnsidePublished by Vintage and out in paperback 7 May 2009 The children of Innertown exist in a state of suspended terror. Every year or so, a boy from their school disappears, vanishing into the wasteland of the old chemical plant. Nobody knows where these boys go, or whether they are alive [...]
Promo: The Seance by John Harwood – A Victorian Mystery (Vintage)
The Seance – A Victorian Mystery by John HarwoodPublished by Vintage and out now ‘Sell the Hall unseen; burn it to the ground and plough the earth with salt, if you will; but never live there…’ London, the 1880s. A young girl grows up in a household marked by death, her father distant, her mother [...]
Promo: Glady Mitchell – The Saltmarsh Murders, Tom Brown’s Body and When Last I Died (Vintage)
If you didn’t already know I’m a big fan of twitter and you get to meet, tweet with and follow tweets of some brilliant and informative people. One of the people I follow being a book-junkie is Vintage Books and it was thanks to a tweet I found out about the reissue of some [...]
Review: Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason (Vintage)
Silence of the Grave by Arnaldur Indridason Published by Vintage and Out Now Silence of the Grave is the second in the Detective Erlendur series by Arnaldur Indridason , though forth in the series Sons of Dust and Silent Kill came out before Tainted Blood but I don’t think have been released in the UK. [...]
