Reviews

‘One of those rare gems that comes to the reviewer out of the blue . . . enough twists to shame a cobra . . . the story fairly rips along, defying the reader to put the book down . . . Christine Poulson should be heralded as the fine entrant to the world of crime fiction she most certainly is.’ [Stage Fright]

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The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

Posted on Mar 29, 2010 in Bill Bryson, Dr Strangelove, Kubrick, Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid | No Comments

For some reason I had taken it for granted that Bill Bryson wasn’t my kind of writer. (Too popular, perhaps? And to anyone who accuses me of intellectual snobbery, I have only this to say: THE DA VINCI CODE). But then I caught him reading from THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE THUNDERBOLT KID on […]

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Old crime writers don’t die . . .

Posted on Mar 22, 2010 in Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith, Stalin's Ghost, Wolves Eat Dogs | 4 Comments

. . . they just lose the plot. Which I am afraid is what has happened in the case of a recent novel by a writer I have often enjoyed – and have very much admired – in the past. I was well into the book, when I stopped and put it down a sigh. […]

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