Wandering the world

I just had to read Home by first-time Scottish author, Cailean Steed. I've always been interested in cults, how people get sucked into them, and the power wielded by their (usually male) leaders. Home is not a light read, but if you're interested in the subject matter, give it a go. Home | Published January 2023 | Read July 2024 In Home, Zoe has escaped from the cult she was raised in and is working in a Dublin café. She leads a simple life, well supported by the woman who ow

Kate London is a graduate of Cambridge University, interestingly working in theatre before joining the London Metropolitan Police Service. Before taking up writing. Kate was part of the Major Investigation Team on the Met's Homicide Command. She certainly has the background to write an authentic police series so I was intrigued to read her books. Also, gritty female detectives are totally my jam. The Collins and Griffiths books form the Tower series, four novels published in

British author, Lisa Jewell, is a prolific writer of psychological thrillers. I've only just started working my way through her collection. See my review of four other books by Jewell that I have read to date. I waxed lyrical about Jewell's cleverly crafted thrillers in that review, but I don't think None of this is true is on par with the other books of Jewell's that I have read to date. None of this is true | Published July 2023 | Read April 2024 None of this is true is ce

This post is a review of the 16th book in the VI Warshawski series by American author, Sara Paretsky. VI - Victoria Iphigenia - is a private detective in Chicago whom Paretsky has been writing about since the early 1980s. I'd heard about the series but had never taken the plunge. I'm not sure about the wisdom of starting with book 16 but I saw it on the shelves of my local library, so I thought I'd give it a go. Critical mass | Book 16 | Published October 2013 | Read December