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Dead Wood by Chris Longmuir

I’m not really a crime aficionado and read only the occasional detective story, but I met Chris Longmuir at the Love A Happy End event in June and I’ve been looking forward to her prize-winning Dead Wood ever since. Apart from anything else I’ve entered the Dundee Prize and  was keen to see the kind of book that … Continue reading Dead Wood by Chris Longmuir

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The Stone Gallows

Picking up The Stone Gallows  by C. David Ingram (Myrmidon, 2009) I wasn’t at all sure this was going to be my cup of tea. I don’t as a rule read crime, and although I make an exception for Rebus (mainly because  Rankin’s voice resonates with me  on some deep level) I’m finding I’ve started to lose interest in the … Continue reading The Stone Gallows