The Crime Warp

Available here Here I go again with my binge read ... this time it's Alex Smith's turn with his Detective DCI Robbie Kett.  So far there are 5 books in this series, with the sixth, I believe due to be released in April 2021 - I for one can't wait. So, what made this series for me? I'd be lying if I told you it wasn't mainly because of DCI Robbie Kett himself. What a character he is - an so very different from most of the detectives doing the rounds at the moment. Kett is a single parent  to three young girls (all under the age of 7). He's been thrust unexpectedly into this role after his wife is abducted. Paper Girls, the first in the series, takes up a few months after her abduction when Robbie and his small family move to Norwich to try to make things easier for himself and his girls whilst the investigation into his wife's disappearance continues in London.  Available here Seeing this detective - one lauded by the London Met for his ability to get the job...

So, a couple of weeks ago, I was on Facebook chatting on one of the online crime fiction bookgroups and someone said they'd just finished a J.D. Kirk book and that it was as good as Stuart Macbride's. Now I'm a huge fan of Stuart MacBride's books. I love the gritty dark humour. Anyway, I thought to myself,, Kirk has big shoes to fill, but I'll give it a go. So, I did and ended up binge reading the first three books in the DCI Jack Logan series set in the north of Scotland. Are they as good as Stuart MacBride? I hear you ask. Well, let's put it this way, there's not a lot to choose between them. Cracking reads! A Litter of Bones  Well if the title's not enough to draw you in, wait till you read the blurb: #AD Available here Was the biggest case of his career the worst mistake he ever made? Ten years ago, DCI Jack Logan stopped the serial child-killer dubbed 'Mister Whisper,' earning himself a commendation, a drinking pro...

Available here I'm a fan of Brian Freeman's novels and when I saw that there were three books in this series, I though I'd give the first one, The Night Bird , a go and I was hooked, reading the next two, The Voice Inside and The Crooked Street back to back. So ... what made me want to read them all together. As usual with these sort of books it was the cast of characters. Detective Frost Easton, a Justin Timberlake lookalike has a tragic past ... but as Available here crime fiction fans know that's pretty much par for the course for the main detective, so there had to be something more that drew me to him. Perhaps it's the fact that he lives in a very posh house in San Franciso, purely by merit of having rescued a murdered woman's cat - the victim, in her will,  left the house to whoever looked after her cat as long as they live there. Easton, although he lives in the luxurious accomodation sleeps on the battered old sofa he brought from his ...

This is the first in a new series on The Crime Warp. Let me introduce you to  .... 'My Guilty Pleasures Binge read style'.  I love a good series - I love the way the characters develop and change as the plot lines affect them. I love cuddling up with familiar characters and becoming fully invested in them. For the first in this series I have chosen Charlaine Harris's Sookie Stackhouse books ... and it is with great pleasure that i explain why.  I don't know if it's the drawling deep south of Louisiana or the cohort of charismatic (and sexy vampires) or the freshness of a cross- genre series that has community at its heart, murder at the core and a range of brilliantly drawn characters that had me hooked .... but hooked I most certainly was.   I loved the sheer brilliance of setting murder mysteries that bring the supernatural and   human together in a very natural way. I loved the way that Harris reflects the stupid prejudices of society in ...