Book Review

The Vivien Brandt Mysteries by Gianetta Murray

If you’re looking for a cosy crime series to curl up with on these dark winter nights, I can recommend the Vivien Brandt mysteries by Gianetta Murray, which explore the murky underbelly of pretty English villages with all the candour and incisiveness of their American heroine, and the author. Relocated to the UK through marriageContinue reading “The Vivien Brandt Mysteries by Gianetta Murray”

The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean

Now this is a novel that’s really got to me. If you are a fan of 1970s ghost stories you will devour it. I read one chapter each evening, trying to make it last, to savour each delicious morsel. And it’s haunted me ever since. The works of M.R. James, the true life 1972 PhilipContinue reading “The Apparition Phase by Will Maclean”