Monthly Archives: November 2022

Okay, for various reasons I’m having to set this post up before the end of November, so when I refer to books read in November, I mean up till today, which is the 28th. I read fifteen books in November, … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #14:- I Can See You (Headline hardback, 512pp, £12.99), is the latest novel from Karen Rose, a writer with a proven track record in the crime/thriller genre. Noah Webster is a Minneapolis … Continue reading →

It’s Sunday, but here’s Melanie with “Ruby Tuesday”.

This post follows on from Books Read in 2010, which I posted at the end of October. And for 2011 I read one hundred and twenty books, fourteen up from the total in 2010, though again with some duplications. And, … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #14:- Like the Carver (see Tuesday’s post), The Kult (Leucrota Press paperback, 328pp, $9.95) by Shaun Jeffrey is set in the UK and delivers an interesting variation on the serial killer theme. … Continue reading →

For some reason I still haven’t seen the first one as yet.

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #14:- The Surrogate (Sphere paperback, 438pp, £6.99) by Tania Carver is, like Crucifix (see last Thursday’s post), a first novel, only this time with the distinctly unglamorous setting of Colchester, where a … Continue reading →

Pretty much how I feel a lot of the time.

After an introduction by editor Mark Morris this second ‘Flame Tree Book of Horror’ gets off to a flying start with “The God Bag” by Christopher Golden in which a gay son learns something of his ailing mother’s relationship with … Continue reading →

A review that originally appeared in Black Static #14:- I didn’t especially enjoy The Fifth Victim (see Tuesday’s post), and I have similar reservations about The Crucifix Killer (Simon & Schuster hardback, 423pp, £12.99) by Chris Carter. LA Homicide Detective … Continue reading →