Wandering the world

The road trip was my first outing with English author, Beth O'Leary. I confess to diving into the book with no knowledge of the author or her other works. Judging a book by its cover, I was expecting something fun and feelgood, a story told with typical British humour. There ARE lots of funny moments, but the book tackles serious and confronting subjects. As I've come to see with all of O'Leary's books, the covers don't really match the contents. The tone of this one is quite

The bone hacker is number 22 in the Temperance Brennan series, the books that inspired the TV series, Bones. Tempe is a forensic anthropologist who works out of both Montreal and North Carolina for their respective Chief Medical Examiner bureaus. Like Jonathan Kellerman's child psychology background, Kathy Reich's expertise shines through in the novels. Dr Reichs is a forensic anthropologist for the CME bureaus featured in the books, and one of only fifty forensic anthropolo

At the time of publishing this post, there are 28 books in the Detective Inspector Wesley Peterson series, by Kate Ellis. The series began in 1998 and Ellis is still churning them out. I'll keep updating this post with reviews as I work my way through the catalogue. The series follows DI Peterson's cases in a clever interweaving of the past and present, where the modern day crime draws parallels or is somehow connected to history. Wesley's archaeologist friend, Dr Neil Watso

Claire McGowan grew up in a small village in Northern Ireland. She earned a degree in English and French from Oxford then moved to London to work in the charity sector. Her first novel was published in 2012 and she has been writing full time ever since. I'm a huge fan of McGowan's Paula Maguire series and I've read all six books, published from 2013 until the series wrapped up in 2018. Paula Maguire is a forensic psychologist, and those books combine strong characterisation,