The Cozy Mystery Genre is frequently maligned, especially by me, but many people (including myself for a long time) have misunderstood its essence and, therefore, dismiss this genre as light and insubstantial. As is typical there are many different definitions of cozy but in general my view of it is that the books should be […]
Ever been to Laos? Me neither, but I have often been transported there by Colin Cotterill via his series of Dr Siri Paiboun novels. This series is a huge departure from the other stuff I’ve written about so far and, once again, it could well be my favorite series (I told you I would probably […]
The Noir genre has been defined in many ways by many people and there is a really good discussion of it in Wikipedia. Paraphrasing them all it denotes a darkness of theme and subject matter, generally featuring violence……..and I love it! I can’t get enough of it. In real life I abhor it but in […]
I want to get away from the detective genre and the NY Times Best Sellers list and for that I have moved to the historical fiction section of my virtual book collection (my wife and I have a large collection of real books but were forced to transfer our allegiance to library books when we […]
For my second blog I wanted to move the action from Britain to the USA. I will be writing a lot about British books as I am a big fan of Scottish and Irish noir (not sure if that is a real genre or I made it up but it will seem apt if you […]