Tag: Book Review

Ten books and 3,742 pages in September: time travel, romance, Suffolk authors, four V.C. Andrews revisits and the return of Ruth Dugdall’s Cate Austin.

Ruth Dugdall returns to Cate Austin after an eleven-year gap with Mother Missing, a dark Suffolk psychological thriller involving three women, a disappearance and some very familiar territory.

J.D. Missen’s Holmhill Farm brings crime, the 1953 flood and a completely fictional Versey ancestor together in a mystery rooted firmly in Felixstowe.

Steffan Piper’s Come Up Screaming is a coming-of-age story set in 1980s Felixstowe. For me, though, it was considerably more dangerous: I know the streets, the house and some of the people behind the fiction.

Eight books across July and August: Fleetwood Mac, Roy of the Rovers, crime, thrillers, middle age and a murderous grandma. A quiet couple of months by Verso standards.

Twelve books and 4,996 pages in June, including crime thrillers, memoirs and biographies—and one novel that completely caught me off guard.

Eight books from May, ranging from crime and time travel to Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and deeply questionable workplace culture.

Nine books from April, with crime, thrillers and an assortment of memorable characters across another strong reading month.

March brought a mixed reading month of time travel, murder, doomed relationships and people making consistently poor decisions.

Six books from February, featuring small-town mysteries, suspicious influencers, dysfunctional families and plenty of fictional bodies.