Easy Mix Book Review
Before the Poison by Peter Robinson In the depths of winter, nothing beats a mind-bending detective story, and happily, August brings a new edition from one of the best operators in the game. At first,...
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Goddess of Love by P C Cast Any genre mash-up risks making unwitting comedy, but the practiced hand of American writer P C Cast lends an air of plausibility to the most unlikely of proceedings (Greek...
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The Sweet Second Life of Darrell Kincaid by Catherine Robertson Once in a while I happen upon a book that is so mood-lifting, so stonkingly readable and plain fun, that I finish it feeling the urge to...
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The Lovers by Vendela Vida San Francisco writer Vendela Vida’s The Lovers is a classic slow-burner. The premise is simple: an American woman, two years widowed, journeys back to the idyllic seaside...
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The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman Is there anything as sure to provoke tears as a Holocaust drama? Towards the end of Alyson Richman’s The Lost Wife I was a bundle of frayed nerves and impatience, eager...
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Good as Dead by Mark Billingham It can’t be easy being a bestselling crime writer these days. With the likes of Lee Child, Val McDermid and Janet Evanovich regularly issuing two novels inside a single...
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Matilda is Missing by Caroline Overington Despite being the purported subject of the novel, Matilda was absent for roughly the first half of Australian writer Caroline Overington’s thoughtful new work...
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I Don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson The redoubtable Kate Reddy, Allison Pearson’s imagined exemplar of the plight of the high-achieving working mother, began her life in a series of...
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The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin Two years after ushering in a new hero, in his first post-Rebus novel The Complaints, the incomparable Ian Rankin returns with the sophomore tale of Scottish DI...
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The White Pearl by Kate Furnivall In 1941 Malaya, a local woman is hit by a car while walking, and dies at the scene. The driver is Constance Hadley, the British wife of a plantation owner and mother...
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