What a truly delightful book. Funny, clever, compassionate and an intriguing whodunnit. And set in an upmarket retirement village in Kent, of all places. Four friends, all senior citizens, meet once a week to look through old unsolved murder files, purloined by Penny, an original member of The Thursday Murder …
This eerily prescient book about a pandemic that shuts down London has a fascinating back story. Peter May wrote the novel in 2005, but it was rejected by publishers as being too unrealistic. So Mr. May put it in his Dropbox and moved on to other projects. It was only …
As though the fabulously creative and loveable Baby Ganesh series were not enough, the talented Vaseem Khan has now given us yet another wonderful Indian detective, and I am already a huge fan. Introducing Inspector Persis Wadia, India’s first woman detective. We are in Bombay, in the tumultuous, heady days …
This just published thriller is one of the most heart-racing, gripping books I‘ve read in ages. I’d already pre-booked “I Follow You” which was published on October 1st and it duly appeared in my kindle that same day. 2 days later, galloping through the final chapters, metaphorically turning over the …
Cards on table time. I am absolutely not a fan of Melania Trump, with her permanent scowl and penchant for issuing the very occasional terse and trite comment, but since I am not an American, so not tax-funding her lifestyle, I can’t really complain. About her apparent lack of purpose. …
Well, this was a fun read. A whodunnit set inside Buckingham Palace during the Second World War. Against the backdrop of London during the Blitz, a war hero, who is now a royal courtier, is found dead inside the Palace. Although everything seems to point to suicide, it is both …
It is rare that I gasp out loud with shock when reading, but I did, in the closing pages of this absolutely stunning novel. “Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook” is a beautifully crafted story that is absorbing, original, creative and has you captivated until the final pages. The book starts …
The author of the hugely fun & hugely successful “Crazy Rich Asians” has a new book out, and it makes for a happy, escapist read in these dire Covid-19 times. Though the central characters are of Asian descent or are Asian, the action takes place in Capri in 2013 and, …
This psychological thriller is an interesting read, though a little patchy in parts and perhaps a little uneven. There is a wealth of detail given to us in the opening chapters of the book, the minutiae of family life, of office life, of streets, of playground politics – and the …
