Vaseem Khan – Quantum of Menace (2025)
This is a new endeavour for Vaseem Khan, after his two award-winning series set in India, the Malabar House and Baby Ganesh series, and his recent standalone US-based thriller, The Girl in Cell A. I’m always intrigued by extended-universe work that builds on well-known characters and creates new offshoots, as part of my general interest…
Gaynor Torrance – Death of a Ghostwriter (2025)
I’m really enjoying the trend towards detective fiction with a strong sense of place, and as someone who lives in Dyffryn Gwy at least part of the time, I was obviously going to pick up this Wye Valley Widows series! (I had actually been trying to get hold of The Cardiff Killings, the start of…
Lucy Foley – Midnight Feast (2025)
This book was everywhere on Waterstones tables for months, and it follows in the well worn tracks of her previous crime thrillers, starting with the excellent The Hunting Party. I had been a little disappointed in The Paris Apartment, feeling that things were getting quite samey, and the settings a little less compelling, so I…
History of Science and Science Fiction (Victorian Reading Project)
This was the third theme on my Great Nineteenth-Century Reading Project list, which I started in 2023. As with the other themes, there was a mix of poetry, fiction and non-fiction in this list. Reading plan (chronological) Between starting the Great Victorian Reading Project of 2023 and now, I discovered that I had ADHD, and…
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