The Air Raid Killer (Max Heller, Dresden Detective #1) by Frank Goldammer

If you had known me in the pre-blog and pre-kindle unlimited days, you would be surprised at the sheer number of translated works that I am reading. I had a very strong bias about translations and they seemed off somehow. The ones that I have recently got my hands on, are much classier than those…

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The Play of Death (The Hangman’s Daughter, #6) by Oliver Pötzsch

It has been a while since I wrote almost back to back reviews and it feels odd being back to it. I am of course referring to the book I reviewed last night (I Know a Woman by Kate Hodges). This is a very intriguing series, a little brutal but with an abundance of historical…

Tangier by Stephen Holgate

This was a surprisingly good book. I say surprising because nothing prepared me for the very interesting writing. I thought it would be just another of those books set partially in the past and partially in the present. It is one of those books, but a very classy one at that. More than the plot,…

The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer

There is a tiny part of me which sometimes takes guilty pleasures in mixing up the lighthearted fun of Georgette Heyer amongst more popular or fancy titles. I thought I was done with the listening binge when I did not enjoy the last one too much but then , I gave in and tried another…

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

I heard this book on audible and I send my thanks out to those who made the effort to convert this work of art to be more accessible to people like me. I have always been a prolific but lazy reader. I needed and sometimes still need a book to walk me up through the…

A Shot in the Dark (Constable Twitten #1) by Lynne Truss

I read a book of this author earlier. Eats, Shoots & Leave and enjoyed her sense of humour. When I spotted a work of fiction by her I decided to give it a shot. Sometimes, I end up wording the review in my head while I am still part way, over confidently I would have to add.…

Gentlemen Formerly Dressed (Rowland Sinclair #5)

I have never been a fan of starting a book midway in a series. I usually feel like it makes me one of those hanger-ons at the outskirts of the 'in crowd' with their inside jokes. This book did none of those things. It was gently welcoming and friendly, sort of like how they were…

Regency Buck by Georgette Heyer

With this book, I intend to pause my Georgette Heyer run of audiobooks and try something else for a while. I had so much fun with the last two books that my expectations and requirements have made it harder for me to like this one to the same extent. That being said, it was not…