Browsing the archives for the crime tag

Rupture – Simon Lelic (2010)

Samuel Szajkowski, a 27 year old history teacher, one day during a hot summer walks into assembly and shoots three pupils and a teacher before killing himself. It is DI Lucia May’s task to investigate the shooting and interview witnesses before filing the official report. On the surface it is an open and shut case, but [...]

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March 12, 2010 by Kirsty in fiction, review
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Reclaiming my Reading Mojo

Phew! Am I glad that’s over! By which, of course, I refer to my two-week reading (and therefore blogging) paralysis. It was torture. Wandering around my house, looking at all my bookshelves, it was like being in a cake shop but having absolutely no appetite. I kept picking books up, tasting a morsel, but found [...]

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November 16, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, personal
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Burial – Neil Cross (2009)

Crime fiction is one of my guilty pleasures. Any sort of crime fiction, from the literary fiction end of the scale, right down to, er, Patricia Cornwell. This obsession follows me to the world of TV as well. I’m pretty much obsessed with CSI and all those programmes.
This week a review copy of a novel [...]

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July 9, 2009 by Kirsty in fiction, review
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher – Kate Summerscale (2008)

We have, it would appear, always been fascinated with the darker side of human nature. Whether it be the many people who, up until the late 19th century, took daytrips to lunatic asylums to gawk at the patients, or the fact that I worked in bookshops for four years and True Crime was the biggest-selling [...]

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January 6, 2009 by Kirsty in history, review, victorian history
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