This was the previous month’s book group book. It follows the turbulent life of a parish priest in rural Cornwall through the eyes of his family and some of his parishioners who are inextricably linked because of him and the decisions he makes. I was a little uncertain when I started to read it because [...]
Georgia, a single mother to her daughter Dakota, is the owner of Walker and Daughter a New York yarn shop. Every Friday night, several women get together to knit together: Anita, Georgia’s mentor and backer; Peri, a student with designs on making designer handbags; Darwin, a student whose thesis is about knitting; Lucie, a film-maker [...]
I’m slowing down on the reading front. As we are already in Week 15 of the year, I’ve slipped behind so I’d better get reading again! The Blue Train is a Hercule Poirot story. He boards the Blue Train which is carrying an American heiress, Ruth Kettering, down to the French Riviera to meet her [...]
I was ever so pleased when our book group said that they would read this book Louise and I were looking at in Waterstones when she and Bob were over in December and I’ve been wondering about reading it for a while so it was great to have an excuse. An autobiographical story, James Bowen [...]
I think I’m just making it a habit – this novel is set before the two that I read before (perhaps I’m a novel time traveller?). Cetin Ikmen is called in to find a missing woman married to one of Instanbul’s movers and shakers. The missing woman, Emine Asku, is known to be promiscuous and [...]
My friend’s mother sent this book for me and I did smile when I opened it up and saw the sock pattern in the front cover. This is the second in the Blossom Street yarn store series, the first of which I’d read and enjoyed several years ago courtesy of Jeanne and Chris It is [...]
Although this is the story that precedes Death by Design, I didn’t feel at all like I’d missed anything by reading them in the wrong order. A violent criminal, Yusuf Kaya, escapes from prison by faking a heart attack. He is an extremely dangerous man with a far-reaching drugs empire and Ikmen and his second-in-command, [...]
I picked this up in our mobile library not having come across a Turkish detective series before. Inspector Cetin İkmen arrives at a factory manufacturing fakes when a boy they are trying to take into custody blows himself up. Amongst the ruins of the factory are found a map of the London Underground and evidence [...]
I can’t remember why this was on my Amazon wish list but I have a feeling I saw it reviewed somewhere and thought it sounded like fun. Orange, a young, handsome ginger cat, is distressed when his Monkey goes abroad on a trip to Egypt and the young feline soon takes up with his Uncle [...]
I’ve never read any of the Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes novels so I came to The House of Silk with a fairly open mind as I didn’t have anything to compare Horowitz’s story with. Quite often when someone writes a sequel or addition to a well-loved series, it comes as a disappointment as there is [...]