Wandering the world

There are currently 22 books in Sara Paretsky's iconic VI Warshawski series, published between 1982 and 2024. I've only read one other in the series - book 16. You can read my review of that book here. My stable of American authors is not as full as my British one, but I am warming to the VI Warshawski series after two books. I've come in at the end of the long-running series and VI is now around my age. That's enough to draw me in. Reading reviews of the later books suggest

I've read four of Gilly Macmillan's standalone novels. You can read my review of those books here. I am intrigued by the author as her books are cleverly constructed and her characters beautifully drawn, and so far I have not guessed what was going on. She takes seemingly ordinary people and situations and turns them into cracking stories. I recently read her first standalone, published in 2016. It's not as good as the other three I have read. Check out my thoughts on that b

I am a relatively new fan of Clare Mackintosh, having read the first two of her Ffion Morgan books and one of her standalone novels, an Idris Elba-like hijack story . I am working my way through the remaining four standalone novels, starting with After the end, the subject of this post. I was intrigued to read this one as it has personal meaning to Mackintosh after having lost one of her twin boys some years ago. I recommend you read the book with no prior knowledge of it as

If you've read my last Kathy Reich post , you'll know that, sadly, I have tapped out of the Tempe Brennan series after 23 books. I'm super interested in forensic science, so I am thrilled to have found a replacement for Tempe in Dr David Hunter. There are six books in the series on the British forensic anthropologist, published between 2006 and 2019, with book 7 due out later in 2025. My review in this post is of books 2 and 6, Written in bone and The scent of death. Author