My Book Reviews

An amusing read, something for a holiday or when you are al little bit ill and bored. It is not going to change the world, but it is quite nice. The plot of this crime story is well figured out. The sleuths are quite different from the average and I can see it easily made into a TV series that problably could become as popular as Death in Paradise. I am not giving away more, as I don't want to be a spoiler.

Nice to be able to compare the TV series The Field of Blood with the book it was base upon. The series was quite okay, but in my opinion the book "Field of Blood" by Denise Mina is much better. I love the weaving in of the story of the crook Paddy Meehan with the main story, the quest for the truth by Patricia (Paddy) Meehan and her search for an independent life away from the suffocating social life in an overly catholic society. Denise Mina did a good job in her description of the newsroom in the eighties. It all comes to life very well. I will not tell you about the murder case, don't want to spoil anything. All in all I think 5 stars is fully deserved for this book. I enjoyed reading it.

The debut of Kate Atkinson is certainly worth the 5 stars I am giving. It is the history of Ruby Lennox and all of her family. There are a lot characters and all are coming to life in front of our eyes. Almost at the end of the book the writer gives Ruby the great words that describe life like I know it, like I see it and I think a lot of people will agree "...words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense".  The book shows something that I know is fully true, it's not only your nature that shapes a person, it's also where you are born and have been living and certainly the history of your parents and all who came before them. I had to get used to the structure Kate Atkinson is using, normal chapters alternated with "footnotes". Be certain that without them the "sense" in the being of the characters would be lacking structure.  For some time I thought this book was a sort of beginning of an evolution of growing into the write