Wandering the world

I've found another British author I love! Her name is Michelle Davies and she is the author of six crime novels to date. Davies has a long history of journalistic writing, as a freelance features writer and editor at Grazia magazine and a crime fiction reviewer for The Sunday Express. She has written two standalone books. I have read both of them, reviewed in this post. She's also written a four-book series featuring DC Maggie Neville. I've read book 4 in the series, also rev

Clare Mackintosh is a British author with an interesting background. She studied French and Management at university and spent a year as a bilingual secretary in Paris as part of her program. After graduation she joined the police force, first becoming a sergeant in Chipping Norton and later Operations Inspector for Thames Valley Police in Oxfordshire. Mackintosh left the police force in 2011 to become a writer full time. Mackintosh now lives in rural north Wales and has foun

Fiona Barton is a British author who started her writing career as a journalist, covering notorious crimes and trials for a bunch of daily newspapers. She has penned two series, one featuring journalist, Kate Waters, and the other featuring Detective Elise King. I'd rate Barton as a solid thriller writer, not at the top of my list of writers of the genre, but still worth the read. This post reviews the three Kate Waters books: The widow (2016), The child (2017) and The suspe

I waited a whole year to see Lee after seeing the preview for the film at the end of 2023. Kate Winslet is my favourite actor and I would run to the cinema to see anything that she is in. I understand that Lee was a passion project for her. Kate was the drawcard but I was also interested in the subject of the film - model-turned-photographer, Lee Miller - who was a trailblazing war photographer. Lee features in the infamous shot of herself in Hitler's bath tub in this private