Colin Garrow's Blog, page 2
August 24, 2025
‘They Have Their Exits’ by Airey Neave
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Long before he became a senior member of Thatcher’s Government and his subsequent assassination by the IRA, Airey Neave had a distinguished war record. Taken prisoner in 1940, he made several escape attempts and was one of the few British prisoners to successfully make a ‘home-run’ from Colditz…
August 14, 2025
‘Witch Hunt’ by BD Spargo
Welcome to my spot on the Blog Tour for Witch Hunt, via Rachel at Rachel’s Random Resources. Blurb Murder, witchcraft, and a race against time – welcome to Pendle Hill. A young woman is found brutally murdered and mutilated at the foot of Pendle Hill and the local police are in no doubt who the…
July 26, 2025
‘The Trials of Arthur Whitty’ by Tim Walker
Blurb This novella is the story of plain old Arthur Whitty, a man whose dreams are never dull and whose vivid imagination and sense of humour carries him through a series of sometimes challenging situations. Arthur has retired to a pair of slippers and jigsaw table in a quiet cul-de-sac in Berkshire, England. He walks…
July 17, 2025
‘Goodbye, Mr Boogie’ by Jake Needham
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Nicknamed the Boogieman, an assassin responsible for a string of high-profile murders, comes to the attention of a colonel in the Royal Thai Police. Keen to stop the man before he notches up another killing, the colonel needs someone to track the killer down. Meanwhile, former Detective Inspector…
July 13, 2025
‘Torch’ by Lin Anderson
My Review (4 stars out of 5) Days before a huge New Year’s party in Edinburgh, a young homeless girl is found dead. The police suspect arson and forensic scientist Dr Rhona MacLeod is called in to investigate links between the death and that of similar ones in Glasgow. Unfortunately, paired up with straight-talking fire…
‘A Lovely Way to Burn’ by Louise Welsh
My Review (4 stars out of 5) A deadly disease known as ‘The Sweats’ sweeps the globe. In London the hospitals are filling up with the dead and dying. Meanwhile, TV shopping-channel presenter Stevie Flint thinks the unexpected – and supposed suicide – of her doctor boyfriend Simon Sharkey is suspicious. Searching for the killer…
July 9, 2025
‘Salt and Honey’ by Candi Miller
Blurb ‘Hide!’ shouts her father. Then he breaks cover to draw the hunting party away across the blackened plain. The child sees them shoot him. And murder her mother. It’s the 1950s but Koba is a hunter-gatherer from an ancient living culture. She’s a survivor. Alone in a cave, she fends for herself, talks to…
July 6, 2025
‘Before and Laughter’ by Jimmy Carr
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) Comedian Jimmy Carr’s autobiography is part memoir, part self-help and gives an insight into his outlook, background and overall view on life, the universe and everything. Stuck in a boring day job he made the leap into comedy, gathering useful tips and advice along the way. …
July 5, 2025
‘Arrow of Alba’ by Allan Webster
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Young warrior Odo escapes Paris (where his father is accused of plotting against the king) and joins a barbarian ruler’s army in northern Britannia. A Saxon slave girl takes his fancy, but another woman—the wife of his new boss—also has her eye on Odo. Caught in a difficult…
June 18, 2025
‘The Day of the Triffids’ by John Wyndham
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) In hospital for an eye operation, Bill Masen misses an unusually bright meteorite shower during the night. The next morning, disturbed that no-one has come to remove the bandages, he takes them off himself and discovers everyone who witnessed the phenomenon is now unable to see. Meeting…
