Skip to content

bookskeptic.com

  • About
  • Reading History
    • 2022
    • 2021
    • 2020
    • 2019
    • 2018
    • 2017
    • 2016
    • 2015
  • To Be Read
    • 2017
    • 2016
  • Projects and Challenges
    • 12 Museums for 2022
    • 12 Plays for 2022
    • #20BooksofSummer 2021
    • #20booksofsummer 2020
    • #20booksofsummer 2019
    • 12 bookshops for 12 months
    • #20booksofsummer 2018
    • #20booksofsummer 2017
    • #20booksofsummer 2016
    • Reading Ireland Month 2016

Tag: crime fiction

Rozdarta Zasłona – Maryla Szymiczkowa

On February 26, 2018February 18, 2018 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

This is a second installment of something that looks like it is going to become a crime series. I read the first book, Tajemnica Domu Helclów, in December 2016, and during my recent visit in Toruń I found the second book in a bookshop. Our main character and self-proclaimed investigator is the wife of professor …

Continue reading Rozdarta Zasłona – Maryla Szymiczkowa

Der nasse Fisch – Volker Kutscher

On January 22, 2018January 18, 2018 By bookskepticIn Reviews1 Comment

One of my Christmas gifts! It took me a while to read it, but I made it, my second completed book in German! Very proud of myself. Also I discovered or rather remembered that when I was learning English the first books I read in English were actually Grisham's book, so also sort of crime/court …

Continue reading Der nasse Fisch – Volker Kutscher

Resurrection Men – Ian Rankin

On January 1, 2018December 26, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews5 Comments

My random adventure with Inspector Rebus continues. This time I came upon the thirteenth book in the series. Rebus seems to have lost it and threw a mug of tea at his boss in the room full of his colleagues. This cannot go unpunished, so he's sent to Tulliallan, a police school, full of young …

Continue reading Resurrection Men – Ian Rankin

Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon

On August 21, 2017August 6, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

It's been years since I read my previous Maigret, so I happily killed two birds with one stone and read a good crime as well as shrank my all too long Netgalley list by at least one title, making me feel a bit less like an evil person. It was a good old type crime, …

Continue reading Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon

Raven Black – Ann Cleeves

On August 17, 2017August 6, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews4 Comments

I do not have a TV, my friend always tells me that without a telly I cannot fully participate in British culture. Probably she's right, but every time I go to hers and we  try to find something watchable on telly we fail miserably. So I consciously decided not to take part in that part …

Continue reading Raven Black – Ann Cleeves

Art history, archaeology and crime

On February 21, 2017February 18, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

Two gifts from my dear friend from studies. She knows I love good crime and she studied with me so obviously she knows I am still interested by the art and academia world, even if I no longer actively participate in it. The two books were perfect gift, I devoured both of them in one …

Continue reading Art history, archaeology and crime

The Devil in the Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson

On November 7, 2016November 7, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews5 Comments

This one was something I rarely read - historical crime fiction, for some unknown reason I usually prefer myy crime to be contemporary, or at least 20th century. I probably was tempted to buy this one on one of the kindle sales, which is where I get most of my crime stash. The book is …

Continue reading The Devil in the Marshalsea – Antonia Hodgson

Last Bus to Woodstock – Colin Dexter

On October 31, 2016October 30, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews1 Comment

Beautiful Sylvia Kaye and another young woman had been seen hitching a ride not long before Sylvia's bludgeoned body is found outside a pub in Woodstock, near Oxford. Morse is sure the other hitchhiker can tell him much of what he needs to know. But his confidence is shaken by the cool inscrutability of the …

Continue reading Last Bus to Woodstock – Colin Dexter

Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin

On October 26, 2016October 24, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews6 Comments

Detective John Rebus: His city is being terrorized by a baffling series of murders...and he's tied to a maniac by an invisible knot of blood. Once John Rebus served in Britain's elite SAS. Now he's an Edinburgh cop who hides from his memories, misses promotions and ignores a series of crank letters. But as the …

Continue reading Knots and Crosses – Ian Rankin

The Disappeared – Kristina Ohlsson

On October 24, 2016October 23, 2016 By bookskepticIn Reviews3 Comments

A young woman is found carved up and buried in a forest glade in a Stockholm suburb. She is identified as Rebecca Trolle, a student who went missing two years earlier. While Fredrika Bergman and her team try to find out why Rebecca met such a violent demise, more bodies are found in the same …

Continue reading The Disappeared – Kristina Ohlsson

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Enter your email address to follow my blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 484 other subscribers

Present

  • A Pause
  • The Shark is Broken – Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, dir. Guy Masterson
  • The Beekeeper of Aleppo – Christy Lefteri
  • A Long Way Off/ Daleko, dalej – Pascal Garnier
  • Charles Dickens Museum – 12 Museums for 2022

Past

Categories

  • Quotes
  • Reviews
  • Thoughts
  • Uncategorized

Tags

#12bookshopsfor12months #20boksofsummer #20booksofsummer #20booksofsummer20 #20BooksofSummer21 #ReadMyOwnDamnBooks Andrzej Sapkowski book book haul book review book reviews books Canada Crime crime fiction Elena Ferrante Elizabeth Strout fiction Ian McEwan Ian Rankin Ireland Jeanette Winterson John Grisham Jo Nesbo Julian Barnes Kapka Kassabova Kate Atkinson Kazuo Ishiguro London Margaret Atwood Neil Gaiman New York non-fiction Olga Tokarczuk Poland quotes Rebecca Solnit review round up Shirley Jackson short stories Stephen King The United Kingdom Thoughts Thriller Toni Morisson travel United Kingdom United States warsaw
  • View bookskeptic’s profile on Facebook
  • View @booksceptic’s profile on Twitter

Blogroll

  • Iconic Photos
  • Fig and Thistle
  • Donovan Reads
  • Franklenstein
  • Tales from the Reading Room
  • http://bookowly.wordpress.com
  • inkyspells
  • Fleeting Brook
  • Spiral Spun
  • Cleopatra Loves Books
  • thebookshelfblog
  • thelibrarylizard.wordpress.com/
  • The Book Satchel
  • middle, beginning & end – The Book Review
  • mirabile dictu
  • Real Life Reading
  • RatherTooFondofBooks
  • bookskeptic.com
  • 120secondbookreviews
  • Lisa Tiller
  • Book Snob
  • Happily Ever Bookish
  • Tea & Paperbacks
  • Kate Beth Heywood
  • The Daily Post
  • Lizzy's Literary Life
  • Tara Sparling writes
  • A Note From Abroad
  • bookowly
  • British Museum blog
  • The WordPress.com Blog
  • The Bookish Badger
  • Simoneteffect – Pure Black & White
  • CIMPLE – A Curious Introvert's Musings & Photos about Life and Enjoyment
  • Asylum
  • Worn Corners
  • The Writes of Woman
  • Bits & Books
  • bhaktimotta
  • Tincture of Museum
  • Read Diverse Books
  • The Bookshelf of Emily J.
  • Drunk Off Rhetoric
  • the blue bore
  • Shoshi's Book Blog
  • My Book Strings
  • If You Can Read This
  • sunroseclear
  • She Reads Novels
  • Distant Drumlin
  • bookssavetheworld
  • heavenali
  • Lady Fancifull
  • The Bookworm Bistro
  • ireadnovels
  • WOCreads
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • 746 Books
  • Dream by Day
  • BaileyBee
  • Novels & Teacups
  • Sorry Television
  • The London Particular
  • The Novel Eater
  • The Perks of Being a Bookworm
  • Cameron Book Reviews
  • the knitted footballer
  • Mike Finn's Fiction
  • Consumed by Ink
  • BookerTalk
  • Lotus Book Blog
  • theliterarysisters
  • The Critiquing Chemist
  • BeeOrdiway
  • Simonet – Pure Black & White
  • RELATING TO HUMANS
  • WordPress.com News
  • madame bibi lophile recommends
  • Penguin Blog
  • ReadandReview2016
  • Hard Book Habit
  • Dysfunctional Literacy
  • London In Photos
  • photospace violetta kaszubowska
  • The Hungry Monster Book Review
  • JacquiWine's Journal
  • Tony's Reading List
  • Duchess Reading
  • A reader's footprints
  • Damn Ugly Photography
  • KURTBRINDLEY.COM
  • Kaggsy's Bookish Ramblings
  • Feminist Texican Reads
  • Savidge Reads
  • The Bibliophile Struggle
  • The 100 Greatest Books Challenge
  • Brontë's Page Turners
  • Words And Peace
  • findingtimetowrite
  • Show This Book Some Love
  • If Books Could Blog
  • Travels Food
  • Reading Turtle Duck
  • Thinking in Fragments
  • Beyond Eden Rock
  • Reading To Remember
  • Big Reading Life
  • Laura Broadberry
  • Adventures in reading, writing and working from home
  • The Reading Bug
  • cupandpaper.
  • Portobello Book Blog
  • cup of tea with that book, please
  • Leaping Life
  • The Daily Dosage
  • booksaremyfavouriteandbest
  • Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
  • Disco Demolition Night
  • Book Haunt
  • CANVAS & QUILL
  • FictionFan's Book Reviews
  • Ranty Runt of a Reader
  • rants and raves of a bibliophile
  • Reading the End
  • 101 Books

Meta

  • Create account
  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
bookskeptic.com
Blog at WordPress.com.
  • Subscribe Subscribed
    bookskeptic.com
    Join 484 other subscribers

    Have a WordPress.com account? Log in now.

  • bookskeptic.com
    View site in Reader
    Manage subscriptionsSign upLog in
    Report this content
    Collapse this bar
Loading Comments...
Privacy & Cookies: This site uses cookies. By continuing to use this website, you agree to their use.
To find out more, including how to control cookies, see here: Cookie Policy