The Crime Warp

Huge thanks to Boldwood books and Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me to be part of this tour.  A while back I reviewed Missing for Good , which is the second in the second in the new Hanlon series. I loved it so much that I practically bit Rachel's hand off to be part of this tour. The main reason was that Missing For Good had left me with a thirst to find out more about Hanlon (the woman with no first name) and these books take us back to when Hanlon was a serving police officer and there are four in the series. Now everyone that knows me, knows I love a good binge read ... sooooo ... binge read is exactly what I did. I was so captured by this series and the characters that I barely paused to eat.  The first DI Hanlon book is The Stolen Child and here's the blurb... The Stolen Child Meet DI Hanlon.  A woman with a habit of breaking the rules and a fierce loyalty to the few people she respects. Her boss, Corrigan.  Looks like a street copper promoted ...

Well, it seems very much to me that I'm in the 'American binge read series with a touch of romance mode' during Covid Lockdown 2. I don't usually go for this sort of book, but was pleasantly surprised at how easily I was drawn into the series. Ex FBI profiler turned author, single mum with three kids and a wayward ex husband, returns to her home town of Cocoa Beach - I was hooked! I like the normalcy of a woman who has achieved and has a family and who can cope with almost anything and that's what you get with Eva Rae. She's been through a lot (check out the back story as you read) but she's still standing, still adapting and still keen to progress her writing career. However, she doesn't reckon on being yanked into crime after crime throughout the series and her turbulent lifestyle, the obstacles that she trips over, a messy romantic life, a moral code that keeps her on the straight and narrow   - none of that grinds her down.  I love her determined nat...

I love getting my teeth into a series that I can read and savour from book one right through to the last book. I love anticipating how the characters will develop and what challenges the writer will place in their way. The Mercy Kilpatrick series is a delightful detective series featuring FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick and local sheriff Truman Daly and is set near Portland, Oregon, in a rural town.  Now, I'm all about the characters and Mercy is delightful - she's a conflicted FBI agent from a Prepper (The End Of the World As We Know It  - TEOTWAWKI) background and carries a GOOD (Get Out Of Dodge) bag with her at all times. She  is estranged from her Prepper family, who despise the police, so when in Book 1 she's forced back to her home town she is torn apart ... however, she stays there for another 6 books in the series and I  thoroughly enjoyed them all. With each book we see her evolve as a character as her romantic relationship grows and her responsibilities increas...

Warning – you could neglect your real friends with all their messy problems because your new screen friends attempt to take over your life. You will get to know and love all the characters and start living vicariously through them. Give in, in the end it’s much easier than hanging out with real people. In the last review I mentioned two violent fast-paced thrillers, today I’d like to point out two crime series with a gentler approach, but just as engaging. Private Eyes (in the UK shown on Universal Channel) is a Canadian series about Angie Everett, a feisty and delectable PI (played by Cindy Sampson) and charming ex professional ice hockey player Matt Shade (Jason Priestley), who becomes her new partner in the PI business. Set in Toronto this series makes me homesick in the nicest possible way. A second series has been commissioned and I’m already looking forward to it. The other series, the police procedural ‘Rosewood’, is set in a warmer place, Miami. The crime drama centre...