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Category: Martin O’Brien

  • Justice Done – Martin O’Brien, an Inspector Jacquot mystery

    I have just read the latest Jacquot book Justice Done. A long gap betwee this one and the last Talking to the Sharks but the wait was worth it. I will always be grateful to the lovely publisher who  sent me a copy some years ago of The Dying Minutes by Martin O'Brien with a…

  • Talking to the Sharks – Martin O’Brien

    A few years ago I was sent a book by the above author. It was a detective story set in Marseilles and it featured a certain Daniel Jacquot. I read this book, fell in love and then read all the books in the series and became totally hooked. Here is my original review and I…

  • More Crime – catch up

    I have spent most of this week either watching cricket or reading crime novels and seem to have got through rather a lot. Weather has been stifling so have stayed indoors in the cool only venturing out in the evening when it is such a nice time to sit in the garden and read. Was…

  • My 2014 reading and Book of the Year

    I have had a very busy year being much more involved with family and grandchildren, helping move, childcare and visiting and, hence, for the first time in over five years I have read less than 200 books. I am at my lowest with the total for 2014 being 164. I also find that this year…

  • Crime catch up

    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…

  • Knife Gun Poison Bomb – Martin O’Brien (Inspector Jacquot)

    In an article in the Guardian this week a journalist listed all the cliches that book reviewers use on a regular basis and was pretty sneery about them all.    So, just to warn you, that three of these apparently appalling cliches are going to be used in this review.   The three words I should not…

  • Serial Detectives

    I do love discovering new detectives, well new to me at any rate, particularly when there is a whole series to keep me going. Over the lifetime of this blog I have indulged in quite a few and thought it would be fun to see how many I have read. Donna Leon – Brunetti series.  …

  • Reading Roundup

    Falling behind with reviews – daughter arriving from Australia on Saturday and I am running around like a headless chicken planning menus, shopping, filling in schedule of who is going where and seeing whom while she is here, so I am doing a quick round up of my reading over the last week in one…

  • The Dying Minutes – Martin O’Brien

    I was sent The Dying Minutes a week or two ago and noted that this was 'A Daniel Jacquot Novel' and is all about an ex-rugby playing French detective and set in Marseilles.   Gallic shrug from moi and Qui?  I opened it and started to read and immediately found myself gripped (or should that be…