Writing and reviews with an environmental, science fiction, and fantasy touch
Flavia Alba is the second series by Lindsey Davis, set in Ancient Rome, but later than her first. It’s later by a generation; Flavia Alba is the adopted daughter of the protagonist of the first series, Marcus Didius Falco. I’ve
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith I think one should read books without knowing the author’s little secrets, and when one of my bookclub tried to tell everyone who the author really was, I tried to stop her. But then
I first met Marcus Didius Falco in Britain in AD 70. Well, I think he started in Rome, and then he came to Britain and uncovered some dastardly goings-on in the silver mines, thus bringing himself to the welcome attention
Saturday nights on the UK’s BBC4 TV channel were improved immeasurably when they started showing the Inspector Montalbano series of crime dramas, with subtitles. From the dark, really dark, noir of Swedish and Danish crimes across the Bridge and elsewhere,
This is not really a cosy mystery, although it starts out that way, but Rhe Brewster, our heroine, turns into a police consultant, so I suppose it could be police procedural after all. What it definitely is, is a well-toned
Here we are at the letter Q already – and blogging through the NATO Alphabet requires that I talk about Quebec. But then again, it’s Saturday, and that means a book review. I didn’t come up with too many books