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 […]
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 […]
During the weeks it has taken me to build this blog site I have been struggling to decide which of the many series I have read should be the subject of my first post. I have decided on this series, not because it is the best I have ever read (although it is pretty damn […]
