The boy in the suitcase by Agnete Friis & Lene Kaaberbol. You think that you are doing a friend a favour and you are even doing it reluctantly. However, you do indeed go to the luggage depot where the lockers are to pick up something for your friend. She told you that you would be better […]
Book Reviews
“Steps to Heaven” by Wendy Cartmell
“Steps to Heaven” by Wendy Cartmell. The Holidays are an excellent time to relax and read so I downloaded a good number of books on my Nook. One of them came from Wendy Cartmell via Twitter. She generously gave me a copy of “Steps to Heaven” and wished me happy readings. She should have mentioned that […]
“Someone’s Daughter” by Silvia Pettem
“Someone’s Daughter” by Silvia Pettem. The author contacted me last year to tell me about the book she was working on. While discussing “Cold Case Research” she hinted at another book she had written in 2009. If I wanted it, she’d send me a copy. She wrote that her heart was in that book. And it showed. […]
Book alert: Cold Case Research
Book alert: Cold Case Research. In 2012 “Cold Case Research” will come out. The author is Silvia Pettem and this is how she describes her book: “Cold Case Research: Resources for Unidentified, Missing, and Cold Homicide Cases,” to be published by CRC Press in 2012. Topics include the latest search engine tools such as TLO, the […]
Death and the Dream by J.J. Brown
Death and the Dream by J.J. Brown is a collection of 14 short stories. In each dread seeps through the lines and the tension is being build up for the possibility of an explosive ending. Each story could easily end in death but then again, in each story death could also be prevented. The story […]
Estimated Time of Arrest by Delphine Pontvieux
Estimated Time of Arrest by Delphine Pontvieux. My second book review for “Blog Tour de Troops” is just like the eyes on the cover: different. The abbreviation ETA reflects the fate of one of the main characters, Lorenzo Lartaun Izcoa. However, ETA of course, also stands for Euskadi Ta Askatasuna. The author gives an overview of the Basque Nationalist […]
Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson
Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson. My first book review for “Blog Tour de Troops” is Murder at the Rocks by Jill Paterson. In contrast to what you might read in the title, the Rocks do not refer to the beach. They refer to a mansion but to me the Rocks refer to the main […]
Bad Luck Cadet by Suzie Ivy
Bad Luck Cadet by Suzie Ivy. Just when you think that you can get some sleep, another author spoils it for you! Rob generously kept me up way too late last night. I should have known that Suzie Ivy‘s book would be worse. Her posts on her blog “Bad Luck Detective” always make me laugh so […]
Black Beast by R.S. Guthrie
Black Beast by R.S. Guthrie. Now that I have an eReader, it is easier than ever to get my hands instantly on books that I see promoted in my Twitter stream. Rob Guthrie and I have been tweeting for a while but I never read any of his books. I knew about his project “Read a […]
Murder at the Farm; who killed Carl Bridgewater?
Murder at the Farm; who killed Carl Bridgewater? We may never know but after reading Paul Foot‘s excellent analysis of the police interrogations, I am sure that none of the Bridgewater Four were involved. Even though the case dates back to 1978, I consider this book to be a classic to study how cases can go […]