"For reasons unknown to everyone, Sherlock Holmes' birthday is celebrated every year on January 6." It's time to return once more to the Sherlock Holmes bookstore, run by ex-pat, Gemma Doyle, who might not actually be related to the famous author but shares the deductive reasoning skills of the even more famous fictional detective! These … Continue reading The Devil is in the Details – Vicki Delany
"'Fake sun again today, I'm afraid.'" It's Sci-Fi Month - what better time to look back at the rather daunting backlog of NetGalley ARCs I never quite got to, and see what fits? And even better if it's something short to pad out those yearly reading stats 😉 We seem to be at something of … Continue reading Existence Augmented – Channing Whitaker
A bunch of friends living in the same retirement home fill their time by investigating cold cases. Elizabeth (Helen Mirren), Ron (Pierce Brosnan), and Ibrahim (Ben Kinsley) are joined by new resident, Joyce (Celia Imrie), just before they are presented with a new, far-from-cold case, as the owner of the retirement home is found bludgeoned … Continue reading The Thursday Murder Club (2025)
On the night of a State dinner (with Australia), a dead body is found in the White House. Time to call in the world's greatest consulting detective - no, no, not that one! - Cordelia Cupp. There's no crime Cupp can't solve, but then again the politics of America's governmental hub might prove a bigger … Continue reading The Residence (season 1)
"I have to admit, it was a lovely wedding." Gemma Doyle - possibly a very distant relation to the famous author - runs a Sherlock Holmes-themed bookshop in her adopted USA. Although she'd deny it, she's definitely a bit of a Sherlock herself and over the course of nine books has solved many crimes. Given … Continue reading The Incident of the Book in the Nighttime – Vicki Delany
"Later, not a single person will recall seeing the lady board the flight at Hobart Airport." What would you do if someone told you how and when you're going to die? That's the question faced by the passengers on an otherwise unremarkable - just delayed - flight, when a fellow traveller starts to make some … Continue reading Here One Moment – Liane Moriarty
"There was a body in the chapel of Saint Bride's." "Forget what you think you know - this is not that crime novel", states the publicity for Chris Brookmyre's new mystery novel. And it's really not, although I was mightily confused from the get go as to what exactly I was getting myself into. We … Continue reading The Cracked Mirror – Chris Brookmyre
I don't often take part in the weekly prompts, but this one spoke to me. I'm about to start my summer holiday, and reading loads is high on the list of wannas! But what might I be at least planning on picking up? Well, there are ARCs - thankfully fewer these days (I'm being good/sensible!), … Continue reading Top Ten Tuesday: Summer Reading List
John Sugar (Colin Farrell) is a globe-trotting private investigator specialising in finding missing people. We first see him finalising a case in Japan, and first hear his "I don't like hurting people" line right before he shows that he is actually very good at hurting people. From there it's on to Hollywood, where the granddaughter … Continue reading Sugar (season 1)
Back in 2020, Eric Bana starred in a movie I somehow failed to review, called The Dry. Based on the best-selling novel by Jane Harper, it introduces us to Aaron Falk, a police investigator forced to deal with an old crime in his drought-stricken home town. Force of Nature is the second book and now movie following … Continue reading Force of Nature (2024)
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