onsdag 27 maj 2020

A Banquet of Consequences



Inspector Lynley investigates the London end of an ever more darkly disturbing case, with Barbara Havers and Winston Nkata looking behind the peaceful façade of country life to discover a twisted world of desire and deceit.

The suicide of William Goldacre is devastating to those left behind. But what was the cause of his tragedy and how far might the consequences reach? Is there a link between the young man's leap from a Dorset cliff and a horrific poisoning in Cambridge?

Following various career-threatening misdemeanours, Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers is desperate to redeem herself. So when a past encounter with bestselling feminist writer Clare Abbott and her pushy personal assistant Caroline Goldacre gives her a connection to the Cambridge murder, Barbara begs DI Thomas Lynley to let her pursue the crime.


I början (en ganska lång början) kändes boken alldeles för lång och vissa delar i historien (sekreteraren som ska se till att Havers får ligga) kändes bara dumma. Men sen blev den riktigt bra och spännande.

Sleeping in the Ground

A shocking mass murder occurs at a wedding in a small Dales church and a huge manhunt follows. Eventually, the shooter is run to ground and things take their inevitable course.
But Banks is plagued with doubts as to exactly what happened outside the church that day, and why. Struggling with the death of his first serious girlfriend and the return of profiler Jenny Fuller into his life, Banks feels the need to dig deeper into the murders, and as he does so, he uncovers forensic and psychological puzzles that lead him to the past secrets that might just provide the answers he is looking for.

Som vanligt spännande och oväntade saker som händer.

tisdag 4 februari 2020

Ett jävla solsken

En biografi om Ester Blenda Nordström: Journalisten som gick undercover som piga, äventyrerskan som åkte till Lappland och Sibirien, barnboksförfattarinnan som skrev föregångaren till Pippi Långstrump. Det blir också en skildring av tidigt 1900-tal.

lördag 4 januari 2020

Ayoade On Top

In Ayoade on Top, Richard Ayoade, perhaps one of the most 'insubstantial' people of our age, takes us on a journey from Peckham to Paris by way of Nevada and other places we don't care about. It's a journey deep within, in a way that's respectful.

onsdag 25 december 2019

Reluctant Adult

Do you overthink everything?
Do you struggle to say no to people?
Are you paying membership for a gym you never go to?
Do group chat politics make you want to throw your phone under a bus?
Are you overjoyed when people cancel plans so that you can sit at home in your pyjama bottoms eating Coco pops for dinner?

If so then this book is for you!

tisdag 3 december 2019

The Clockmaker's Daughter

Typ alla böcker jag läser får betyget jättebra, men den här var bara bra. Storyn var på många sätt fantastisk och hängde ihop på många spännande sätt, men den blev också lite rörig. Det var på sätt och vis för många historier i en bok och det gjorde att den både kunde kännas långrandig samtidigt som man inte fick veta tillräckligt mycket om varje del. Så på sätt och vis var den för lång och ändå slutade den för fort. Ni vet sådär när man kan förstå hur viktiga delar i historien kommer att fortsätta, men det lämnas osagt. Det gjorde att när boken tog slut kände jag mest irritation.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe's life is in ruins.
Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist's sketchbook containing the drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.
Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

torsdag 5 september 2019

Dead Water

When the body of journalist Jerry Markham is found in a traditional Shetland boat, outside the house of the Fiscal, down at the Marina, young Detective Inspector Willow Reeves is drafted in to head up the investigation.

Since the death of his fiancée, Inspector Jimmy Perez has been out of the loop, but his interest in this new case is stirred and he decides to help the inquiry. Markham originally a Shetlander but who had made a name for himself in London had left the islands years before. In his wake, he left a scandal involving a young girl, Evie Watt, who is now engaged to a seaman. He had few friends in Shetland, so why was he back?

Willow and Jimmy are led to Sullum Voe, the heart of Shetland s North Sea oil and gas industry. It soon emerges from their investigation that Markham was chasing a story in his final days. One that must have been significant enough to warrant his death . . .