Reviews

‘A marvellous entry in this excellent series, one of those books that  you have to keep reading but hate to finish. Highly recommended.’ [Stage Fright]

- MYSTERY WOMEN

Author of the Cassandra James series and of standalone suspense novels.

About Christine Poulson About Christine Poulson

I was a respectable academic, lecturing in art history at a Cambridge college before I turned to crime. My first three novels featured literary historian and accidental sleuth, Cassandra James, and my most recent is Invisible, a standalone suspense novel.

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A Reading Life

Crime writer Christine Poulson's blog on reading, writing, and all things literary

A good way to spend an autumn afternoon

My last post was about buying new books. It’s a great pleasure, but perhaps not quite such a pleasure as a trip to a second book shop and finding books that you didn’t even know you wanted as well as some that you did. Last Friday I needed cheering up and, as I had to […]

Why we should buy lots of books

Yesterday I decided pretty much at the last minute to book a ticket for Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, a play which is having a short run at the Lyceum in Sheffield. Of course I am curious to see how Tom Chambers, who is playing Morse, will measure up to the great John Thaw, but […]

A Wonderful Tribute

Yesterday was the first day of an exhibition at Sheffield University of material from the archive of my late husband:  Peter Blundell Jones: Architecture, Landscape and the City. I went to see it with our younger daughter (there will be an official opening later in the year). It covers the whole range of Peter’s work, […]

REVIEWS

Invisible’s got an excellent, tense plot, shifting between the two main characters, with a good number of surprises along the way. Poulson always has great, strong women characters, with real lives and feelings . . .  I liked the fact that the depictions of violence and injury were realistic without being over-detailed or gloating . . . It was a pleasure to find a book that did the excitement, the jeopardy and the thrills without putting off this reader . . .  a very good read for anyone.’

- CLOTHES IN BOOKS

‘This is splendidly written fare from the reliable Poulson, written with keen psychological insight.’ [Invisible]

- CRIMETIME

Invisible is a great thriller. I can’t say too much more about the plot because the twists and turns are the whole point of reading a book that wrong foots the reader at every turn . . . Christine Poulson kept me reading by giving out just enough information to intrigue and puzzle so that I had to read just one more chapter. That’s why, in the end, I just dropped everything else and read the last half of Invisible in one sitting.’

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