Category Archives: Scotland

Review: THE LONG DROP by Denise Mina

Posted on August 10, 2017 by bernadetteinoz

All I knew of THE LONG DROP before bringing it home from the library was that it is a standalone work by a writer I admire, not least because she takes risks with her storytelling techniques rather than sticking to … Continue reading →

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Review: SANCTUM by Denise Mina

Posted on October 17, 2016 by bernadetteinoz

I’ve been trying to whittle down my TBR shelves and plucked this one because I’ve owned it for over seven years without reading it. How preposterous. Especially as I love Mina’s writing. Written after the Garnethill trilogy, which features a … Continue reading →

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Review: OUT OF BOUNDS by Val McDermid

Posted on September 13, 2016 by bernadetteinoz

I realise this isn’t the most pertinent thing I can tell you about OUT OF BOUNDS but as it occupied a lot of my thinking time with respect to the book I do have to report that if you think … Continue reading →

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Review: THE JUMP by Doug Johnstone

Posted on January 28, 2016 by bernadetteinoz

THE JUMP is not the kind of book you should start when you only have a few reading minutes at hand. Once begun you’ll want need to finish it quickly. It is the story of Ellie Napier and how she … Continue reading →

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Review: ELEMENTAL by Amanda Curtin

Posted on March 9, 2014 by bernadetteinoz

I’m going to give her the benefit of the doubt and presume that Amanda Curtin did not set out to deliberately cause me the messy embarrassment of unexpected tears in public. I’ll concede that she wasn’t to know that the tale … Continue reading →

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Review: THE HANGING SHED by Gordon Ferris

Posted on January 5, 2014 by bernadetteinoz

Douglas Brodie is a well-educated (courtesy of a scholarship), working-class bloke who’s been a student, a policeman, a soldier and, in the year since WWII ended, has tried to make a career as a reporter. At the start of the … Continue reading →

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Review: CRUCIBLE OF SECRETS by Shona MacLean

Posted on February 25, 2013 by bernadetteinoz

Readers first met Shona MacLean’s 17th Century academic Alexander Seaton when he was teaching at a school in the Scottish town of Banff in 1626 and then followed him on a quest to Ireland a couple of years later. In … Continue reading →

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Review: THE SEA DETECTIVE by Mark Douglas-Home

Posted on January 16, 2013 by bernadetteinoz

Cal McGill, with his aptly named business Flotsam and Jetsom Investigations, is an expert on ocean currents and other influencing factors to the point that he can identify where a body (or anything else) which has washed ashore originated from … Continue reading →

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Review: BIRTHDAYS FOR THE DEAD by Stuart MacBride

Posted on June 1, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

I finished listening to Stuart MacBride’s BIRTHDAYS FOR THE DEAD a couple of days ago and I didn’t like it. Lots of people have recommended the author to me and with reviews like this one I thought I might enjoy … Continue reading →

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Review: A DARKER DOMAIN by Val McDermid

Posted on April 18, 2012 by bernadetteinoz

If the world could be ordered to my specific tastes all books would be available in audio format and all of those would be read by people with Scottish accents, even the ones set in outback Australia. I blame my … Continue reading →

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