I checked out Lovestruck because I love the audio narrator, Simon Prebble, and was about to go on a long car trip. I bailed after six chapters despite Simon Prebble because of the incredibly annoying character of Sargeant Dawkins. (Note to authors: don't write a character who is so obnoxious and ...
A good chunk of the first part of this book does not include Peter Diamond. Where'd he go? What's happening? As someone who has been reading two or so of these a month in order for the past several months, not having the series character in the book was ... different. At first. But I really grew ...
This one again I dug out from some top crime fiction list I managed to find on the internets, so I ordered the book through ebay for like, a euro (expecting a crime masterpiece and praising my luck for getting a hardcover copy so dirt cheap :)). Well, it was an alright book, although its style wa...
It is always sad when you reach the last book of a favorite author, the last book you had not yet read. Oh, I this isn't it, nor is Lovesey potentially done. But it is the last book I planned to read, barring brand new books. I have just two books left under the Lovesey name I haven't read, both ...
My bookshelf is full of books that I want to read. These may be books that have been recommended or they may be later books in a series that I have started and enjoyed. Yet when I am ready to start a new one, not all will fit the bill. Such was the case here. As I looked down the list of books an...
At first I felt the same as Thackeray: Where's the body? I do remember reading this yonks ago, probably during my first incarnation as library worker in the 70s. Why is Sgt. Cribb investigating music hall mishaps? As usual, when reading in this series, you get the impression you're learning a lot...
This was bizarre. I can't say I'm keen on sporting stories, especially ones about bare-knuckle fighting, and I was constantly worried about poor PC Jago. Sgt. Cribb takes Jowett's admiration of the French method seriously and sends a new, relatively unknown constable under cover as a bare-knuckle...
This is an odd little story published over forty years ago but because the author is one of my favourites, I figured it was worth trying it as one of this series.A typically suppressed obsessive and rather vain little Victorian man, Albert Moscrop is convinced that spending his Brighton holiday "...
I do love a dark story without a Hays-Code like finish, and thanks to Peter Lovesey (and my husband, who recommended this read) I got to read this one. It's not as darkly comic as some other novels I've read, but it's just subversive enough to scratch that itch and make me think "oh, now *that's*...