RANDOM JOTTINGS

A blog about music, sports, theatre and rants

Long time blogger just moved to wordpress. Love music, theatre, movies, sport (tennis and cricket) and cooking. Two great daughters, two great granddaughters.

Category: Lackberg

  • Random Crime Reading around the World

    Now that the hassle of new laptop and setting it up etc is behind me (well almost, scanner on printer not working yet but I am ignoring it for the moment), I am finally getting down to posting about books.   I mentioned in one of my summing up posts of 2012 that I was seriously…

  • Iceland, Sweden and Venice – Crime round up

    My first book for this post is Cold Comfort by Quentin Bates.  I read his first detective story, set in Iceland as is this, last year and my review is here.  The ending was left rather ambiguous. As you will see from the earlier review, Frozen Out featured a mysterious blogger whose identify was left…

  • Double Whammy

    Catch up time now.   Review a book or two Elaine.  Always a good idea on a book blog.  So here goes with two brill thrillers read in the last week. The Reckoning – Jane Casey. The second book by this author featuring DC Maeve Kerrigan, determined to make her mark and be a good detective…

  • The Gallows Bird – Camilla Lackberg

    The Gallows Bird is the  latest in the series about Patrik Hedstrom and his colleagues and have been saving this up for the weekend along with my mini-Easter egg and I enjoyed both, the reading and the eating. A woman is found dead, apparently the victim of a tragic car crash.  The car reeks of…