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Overblown and underwhelming

The Point of Rescue (The Wrong Mother) by Sophie Hannah

February 17, 2015 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

Normally, when I post a review of Hannah’s books on here and tweet the link, I’ll include her twitter handle. She gives good chat on there and also reads the reviews (she commented on something specific in one of mine, so it’s not like she was just all “oh thanks” about it). I won’t be doing it on this one, because holy fucking shit I thought this book was absolutely terrible. Admittedly, I’ve read the books out of sequence, which doesn’t help matters. I started […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBR7, crime, Point of Rescue, Sophie Hannah, Wrong Mother

popcultureboy's CBR7 Review No:5 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: CBR7, crime, Point of Rescue, Sophie Hannah, Wrong Mother ·
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Catch yourself on….

In The Morning, I'll Be Gone by Adrian McKinty

February 17, 2015 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

I may have mentioned before that McKinty was something of a wild card discovery. I read the first in the Sean Duffy series, The Cold Cold Ground, purely as there was a gay element to it (shallow, moi?) and very much enjoyed it. So here we are at the third entry into the series, which sees McKinty essentially using the framework of the IRA bombing of the Brighton Tory Party Conference in 1984 to write about something that he is clearly more fascinated with: a locked room […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: Adrian McKinty, CBR7, crime, In The Morning I'll Be Gone, mystery

popcultureboy's CBR7 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery · Tags: Adrian McKinty, CBR7, crime, In The Morning I'll Be Gone, mystery ·
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“Bleak” is the mot du jour

Dying Light by Stuart MacBride

January 25, 2015 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

Year of Crime, Book 3 This is the 2nd book in the DS Logan McRae series. The first one I read prior to being a Cannonball Reader, but to summarise, it’s a grim, bleak and cold book set in Aberdeen and dealing with the gruesome murder of children. Fun times. The rest of the series ended up as a Kindle Daily Deal and so here we are. The second book opens with McRae disgraced by a botched operation which ended with a policeman on life […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: CBR7, crime, Dying Light, Logan McRae, murder, mystery, Stuart MacBride

popcultureboy's CBR7 Review No:3 · Genres: Uncategorized · Tags: CBR7, crime, Dying Light, Logan McRae, murder, mystery, Stuart MacBride ·
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Midsomer Marple gets down with her bad self

Agatha Raisin & The Deadly Dance by M.C. Beaton

January 25, 2015 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

Year of Crime Book 2 So, here we are. 2015 will be the year I finally burn through the rest of the Agatha Raisin books, which have been sitting on my Kindle for a year. The self-imposed Year of Crime (Reading) should sort that right out. And following the entertaining but hugely miscast TV adaptation of the first book, my interest in all things Raisin has been very much renewed. So, after several years of having her retirement disrupted by dead bodies popping up and […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Agatha Raisin, CBR7, crime, Deadly Dance, M.C. Beaton

popcultureboy's CBR7 Review No:2 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Agatha Raisin, CBR7, crime, Deadly Dance, M.C. Beaton ·
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So tap at my window, maybe I might let you in

A Tap on the Window by Linwood Barclay

January 25, 2015 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

Year of Crime Book 1 As we all know, Linwood and I, we go back a bit. Lately, things have been a  little rocky between us, with a duff novel followed up by an absolute rip roaring one. So when it came to this one, I was all “which camp will it fall into?” As it turns out, it fell smack dab between those two stools. Our protagonist hero is Cal Weaver, a private investigator whose life is looking pretty bleak. His marriage is failing […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: A Tap On The Window, CBR7, crime, Linwood Barclay, mystery

popcultureboy's CBR7 Review No:1 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: A Tap On The Window, CBR7, crime, Linwood Barclay, mystery ·
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Midsomer Marple tries her hand at ghostbusting

Agatha Raisin & The Haunted House by M.C. Beaton

December 28, 2014 by popcultureboy Leave a Comment

The other day, I looked at my “Already on the Kindle” shelf over on Goodreads and I thought to myself “you know, I have a LOT of crime books here. Like a LOT”. So I decided, there and then, to make 2015 my Year of Crime. While I’m not going to devote myself solely to reading crime novels, they will make up the majority of my Cannonball 7 input. The plan originally was to end Cannonball 6 with Station Eleven, but it was so good I burned […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Agatha Raisin, crime, Haunted House, MC Beaton, whodunnit

popcultureboy's CBR6 Review No:58 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Agatha Raisin, crime, Haunted House, MC Beaton, whodunnit ·
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