Secret government mission involving a myopic civil servant, time travellers and a plot to save our future. Gripping and beautifully written.
Author: Fiona
Violet Hamilton, Lady Detective series
Meet the most delightful detective ever written, Violet Hamilton, in No Life for a Lady and How to Solve a Murder Like a Lady.
Toxxic
A matriarchal world damaged by and struggling to move on from its patriarchal, violent past. A moving novel and a painful read.
Shaking Hands With Elvis
An apparently light-hearted novel about assisted dying that feeds into a facile, populist narrative. Scare-mongering.
What Doesn’t Kill Us
What Doesn’t Kill Us is a beautifully written, gripping and immersive, and still very relevant historical novel about misogyny and activism.
The Trials of Marjorie Crowe
Murder in a small community. Robertson does it again, with another great female character, Marjorie Crowe. Gripping and immersive.
The Undiscovered Deaths of Grace McGill
Grace is a death scene cleaner. A well written, character-driven, immersive crime read. I loved it. Dark, disturbing and unusual.
Head First
Troubles in the mind cause troubles in the body. Boom. The ‘insight’ stops there. Head First says NOTHING new about the mind-body connection.
The Hunter
Another episode of American ex-cop Cal Hooper in rural Ireland. Intelligent, insightful and well written. French gets better all the time.
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband
The Best Way to Bury Your Husband is, surprisingly, a very moving AND uplifting AND very funny book about domestic abuse and violence. Really!