Colin Garrow's Blog, page 9
July 14, 2024
‘We Should All Be Feminists’ by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Best-selling author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book is based on her 2013 TEDx Talk of the same name. It explains what it means to be a feminist using examples from her own experiences and her understanding of sexual politics. This is a short and enlightening read that describes in…
June 30, 2024
‘Passageways’ by Lisa Fox
Welcome to my spot on the Blog Tour for Passageways, via Rachel, at Rachel’s Random Resources. Blurb Twenty-seven speculative short stories celebrating the value of the journey: how lessons learned traveling the path between two points often transcend the goal of reaching the destination. These tales—including science fiction, fantasy, and horror—introduce characters who traverse unusual and often unsettling…
‘Silent Voices’ by Ann Cleeves
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Following her doctor’s orders, DI Vera Stanhope makes the effort to take regular exercise by swimming a few lengths of the pool in her local gym. When she discovers a body in the sauna room it looks as though the woman died of natural causes, but ligature marks…
June 26, 2024
‘Chase – The Hunt for the Tsar’s Treasure’ by Thomas Dellenbusch
My Review (4 stars out of 5) The Chase team’s IT specialist Andree is drawn into a new adventure when an old classmate asks for his help. An encrypted data carrier may hold clues to Russian treasure but before Andree’s friend can tell him more, she is kidnapped by a gang of motorcyclists. Translated by…
June 7, 2024
‘The Fells’ by Cath Staincliffe
My Review (5 stars out of 5) In the summer 1997, Vicky Mott leaves the cottage where she’s staying with her friends and walks off into the early morning light. Her disappearance is put down to the serial killer known as the Fellside Strangler but when Vicky’s body is discovered twenty years later, the possibility…
May 26, 2024
‘The Custard Corpses’ by MJ Porter
My Review (5 stars out of 5) (Audiobook) Birmingham, 1943. A twenty-year-old murder sets Chief Inspector Mason on the trail of a killer. Along with his sidekick Constable O’Rourke, he investigates the death of a boy – Robert McFarlane – who was murdered in 1923. Weirdly, although the body was discovered on dry land, the…
May 25, 2024
‘Hidden Depths’ by JH Mann
Blurb On a wild Cornish headland, Catherine Carlyon takes a decision that will change her life forever. She is facing the bleak prospect of years in prison after being sucked into a fraud by a man she thought loved her. Catherine has found a possible way out – to disappear. But disappearing comes at a…
May 23, 2024
‘No Time for Doubt’ by Robert Crouch
My Review (5 stars out of 5) A decomposed body is found in a dingy bedsit, leading Kent Fisher to dig into his past. Uncovering a series of crimes from thirty years ago, he must ask some probing questions to find out the truth. With the help of his detective pal Belinda, Kent sets about…
‘Killing Eve – Codename Villanelle’ by Luke Jennings
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Russian orphan Oxana has been trained as a ruthless assassin. Controlled by a group known only as The Twelve, her handler, Konstantin, delegates her targets. Meanwhile, MI5 officer Eve Polastri follows the killer’s progress, but an error of judgment leaves Eve out in the cold. Given a shabby…
May 15, 2024
‘Want You Dead’ by Peter James
My Review (5 stars out of 5) Detective Superintendent Roy Grace looks forward to his wedding to Cleo, followed by a well-deserved honeymoon. But an obsessive psychopath has plans of his own, beginning with the murder of a doctor. The killer’s ex-girlfriend also finds herself in danger when a series of bizarre events threaten to…
