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Category: Kate Rhodes

  • A bit late but reviewing books read last month. As my daughter has been undergoing an operation I have been worried and unable to concentrate on anything with great pith and moment but rather light reading or revisiting books so my brain did not have to work very hard. First up, I revisited a series…

  • I have not been posting recently as my reading has not been of outstanding interest over the last few weeks.  Most of you will know that I am not a lover of modern fiction try though I might and, quite frankly, there has been very little published of late that sparks my interest. This is…

  • I am getting really tired of January and the cold weather. Winter seems to have gone on for a long time this year.  I have been in Cambridge this week for a couple of days and the driving there was hampered by road works and the return journey not much fun as ice on the…

  • A bleak dreary day today and I am sitting here with a rug over my knees and a hotwater bottle at my back as I ache all over. I always do after a busy time. Christmas was stressful in that right up to the last few minutes of Christmas Eve I did not know whether…

  • The title of this post sounds as if I have been on the lam with a black mask on my face and a bag marked Swag on my back, but it is not as exciting as that, it is merely a round up of my reading. I mentioned earlier this year that I am beginning…

  • I have been spending most of my days watching Wimbledon in the last week or so, which you have probably gathered by now, hence the lack of posting.  I have managed to read quite a lot in between hurling shrieks and abuse at the TV screen and am doing a round up of these else…

  • Two debut thrillers have arrived at Schloss Random in the last week and I have enjoyed both of them very much, one set in London, the other in Los Angeles. First one is Cross Bones Yard by Kate Rhodes. Our heroine is Alice Quentin, a psychologist who has problems of her own after suffering an…