Category: Best new reads

Jenner, Natalie (2020) The Jane Austen Society. Orion Books.  A few months after the end of WW2 Jane Austen's cherished home in Chawton, Hampshire, comes under threat. A disparate group of village Janeites come together to form a society to preserve Jane's home and legacy, each with their own story of loss and trauma. As new friendships… Continue reading June Picks →

Redmond, Lissa Marie (2020) A Full Cold Moon. Severn House. Buffalo NY cold case, now homicide, detective Lauren Riley is called to the brutal murder of a young Icelandic man under a full cold moon. Gunnar had traveled to the US to meet his biological father but as Lauren begins her investigation the Icelandic authorities, and… Continue reading May Picks →

McTiernan, Dervla (2020) The Good Turn. Police corruption in Ireland's gardai is the central theme of this new Detective Cormac Reilly story. Reilly faces enemies at work and his colleague, Garda Peter Fisher, is banished back to his father's patch in the small seaside village of Roundstone, with the threat of prosecution hanging over his… Continue reading April Picks →