Tag: crime ficton

  • REVIEW: The Mind’s Eye

    More Scandi Noir. I think it’s the dark nights and cold weather that means I’m drawn to the genre during the winter. I know it’s spring now but I haven’t quite caught up blogging about the books I read last month yet. Just this one and one more to go, then I have February checked…

  • REVIEW: Strange Shores

    I have no idea why I chose to read the final exploits of Detective Erlendur Sveinsson as my introduction to his character, but I did and now I am going to have to track down all the others (there are ten) because I loved it. Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason isn’t exactly Erlendur’s last case,…

  • REVIEW: Burial Rites

    Oh my god this book is good. Go buy, borrow or steal it and read it immediately (actually don’t steal it, stealing is bad and wrong). I could leave it there, but I won’t obviously. It wouldn’t make for a very good blog post and this book deserves so much more than a one-liner. Burial…