Reviews

‘One of those rare gems that comes to the reviewer out of the blue . . . enough twists to shame a cobra . . . the story fairly rips along, defying the reader to put the book down . . . Christine Poulson should be heralded as the fine entrant to the world of crime fiction she most certainly is.’ [Stage Fright]

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Character versus plot

Posted on Feb 26, 2020 in character versus plot, Harlan Coben, The Stranger | 4 Comments

I recently watched The Stranger on Netflix (based on Harlan Coben’s novel of the same name). It was certainly gripping. I watched one of the eight episodes a night and I really wanted to know what had happened to the woman who went missing at the beginning. There was a lot of excellent acting and […]

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Nasty People

Posted on Feb 10, 2020 in Blackwells bookshop, Lucy Foley, Patrica Highsmith, The Hunting Party, Tom Ripley, unpleasant protagonists, Val McDermid | 10 Comments

Last summer at the St Hilda’s crime fiction convention I guessed who the murderer was (Val McDermid!) in the after dinner play. I wasn’t the only one to get it right, but mine was the name picked out of the hat, and the prize was a year’s subscription for a crime novel sent by Blackwells […]

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