Check through the Blog posts below to find our latest extended book reviews, our #TalkingLocationWith … pieces, and our views on matters of general literary interest. Search by either Location or by the Keywords you would like to come up in the results…
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix, a story of teenage pregnancy in 1970 Florida. Wellwood House in St Augustine, Florida was a Maternity Home – one of many across the United States. Unmarried teenage pregnancy was considered...
#TalkingLocationWith… N S Brooks, author of Fraud – SCOTLAND. The story starts in the West Highlands of Scotland in my first novel – Betrayed – and uses Scotland as a platform for the plots through all three subsequent books in the...
The Assistant by Kjell Ola Dahl, noir set in Oslo’s interwar years. Translated by Don Bartlett. The novel opens in Kristiania in 1924. Kristiania became Oslo in 1925 and much of the story is set in and around the...
Death Flight by Sarah Sultoon, thriller set in ARGENTINA. The backdrop to this novel is Argentina’s Dirty War, which I first read about in Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case by Elsa Ducaroff (TRS: Slava Faybysh and David William Foster) and...
The Doorman by Chris Pavone, thriller set in Manhattan. Central to this story is the Bohemia, a unit of 94 apartments on the Upper West Side: ‘..luxurious and famous, but also tasteful, and somehow even modest..” Set on...
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