A behind the scenes look at how victims of accidents and natural disasters are identified, from the perspective of a British police officer. Detective Inspector Richard Venables has helped identify thousands of bodies all over the world, piecing together fragments from tsunamis, transport and other disasters to return victims to their loved ones. I have … Continue reading A Life in Death by Richard Venables
Tag: True Crime
My Week – 15 May edition (just a wee bit late)
Looking back at last week where I managed to both do some reading and get out into the big wide world.... What I finished: I managed two this week, a bit of entertaining true crime and an engrossing mystery Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants: Britain's First Female Crime Syndicate by Brian McDonald I was … Continue reading My Week – 15 May edition (just a wee bit late)
My Week – 8 May edition
A quick look back at what turned out to be a very quiet week in which nothing much happened but somehow I still needed to sleep a lot..... What I finished: Only one book this week but it was totally absorbing. Under the Banner of Heaven by Jon Krakauer came to my attention because I … Continue reading My Week – 8 May edition
My Week – 26 September edition
It has been a very quiet week chez Bride, partly because I've been feeling a bit under the weather and consequently lethargic, which has meant watching YouTube videos and sleeping. That also means not much reading, though I did manage to finish The Eleventh Day which I mentioned in my post last week. Photo by … Continue reading My Week – 26 September edition
Sunday Salon | 13 September
It has been a very quiet reading week. I've been spending my Me Time binge listening to True Crime Bullsh** - an excellent podcast focussing (at least in the first two seasons) on serial killer Israel Keyes. I know. I have always been this way. Photo by Frederick Tubiermont on Unsplash I finished exactly one book this week, … Continue reading Sunday Salon | 13 September
True Crime Reading List
When I hit a fiction slump I turn to true crime to unblock my reading brain. There's been a lot of that over the past few months so I thought I'd share my recent reading list. Murder on Easey Street by Helen Thomas Melbourne's most notorious cold case In 1977 two young women sharing a … Continue reading True Crime Reading List
Read but not Reviewed | April Edition
Sometimes you just have to accept that you are not going to get around to clearing that backlog of book reviews even if you are sufficiently motivated to give it a try. What to do? That's what round-up posts are for. So here are the books that I read in April which may have been … Continue reading Read but not Reviewed | April Edition
December Books | Impulse Buys
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash It is a fact that I am not supposed to buy books in December because gifts, but as we share wishlists I know the range from where my presents will be drawn. That's a complicated way of saying that if a title wasn't on my wish list it was fair game. Here … Continue reading December Books | Impulse Buys
Sunday Salon | Books Read
Hope everyone had a fabulous holiday season. In getting ready for 2020 I thought I would write up some short reviews of (most of) the books I've read recently. All links are to Goodreads btw. Photo by Alex Blăjan on Unsplash Ghoster by Jason Arnopp I shall declare an interest here as I am one of Jason's supporters … Continue reading Sunday Salon | Books Read
December Books | Gifts
Photo by Sincerely Media on Unsplash All of my presents this year were books. This is a very good thing. The Mansion by Ezekiel Boone - it's a house with a flawed and, let's face it, potentially evil and certainly dangerous artificial intelligence which controls all of the stuff. The Poisoner’s Handbook by Deborah Blum - subtitled Murder … Continue reading December Books | Gifts
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