Catherine Turnbull

Harrogate 2021 – crime goes under cover in a tent

26 July, 2021

“It’s been a stressful two years since I became programming chair for the 2020 festival that never happened, apart from a few online panels, but now I am so happy that we are all back together like the big family that we are. It appears…

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I Know What I Saw

By Catherine Turnbull

9 July, 2021

Once wealthy banker Xander Shute is living rough on the streets in I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood. He takes refuge in a flat, where he witnesses the murder of a woman at the hands of her lover. When he reports the vicious…

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I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood

By Catherine Turnbull

5 July, 2021

Xander Shute was a high-flying, wealthy banker – white, Oxbridge educated and privileged. But when I Know What I Saw opens, he’s been living rough on the streets of London for decades. As Xander tells us his story we learn much about him in the first…

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The Final Round by Bernard O’Keeffe

By Catherine Turnbull

24 May, 2021

What is it with fictional detectives and music? Inspector Morse, of course, was a huge opera fan, DCI Banks loves a bit of jazz with classical thrown in and it’s been the same score since Sherlock Holmes picked up his violin. Now we have a country…

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Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

By Catherine Turnbull

13 May, 2021

DCI Alan Banks may have been off the telly for five years, but the books that spawned the police procedural series about the Yorkshire-based detective keep coming. Not Dark Yet is the 27th novel Peter Robinson has written for fans of this stubborn officer. Banks,…

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The Captive

By Catherine Turnbull

13 April, 2021

After the lockdowns we’ve endured, how would you feel if you were forced by the justice system to host a caged prisoner in your home? This is what happens to Hannah in Deborah O’Connor’s thriller, when she is effectively handed a life sentence, as she…

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A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements

By Catherine Turnbull

10 March, 2021

At the centre of the intrigue in each of Rory Clements’ World War II espionage novels sit true historical events. Cambridge history professor Tom Wilde’s task is to step in and save the world from the iron glove of Nazi tyranny. One false move and…

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The Captive by Deborah O’Connor

By Catherine Turnbull

12 January, 2021

If you knew that if you pressed charges against the man who had murdered your loved one, you would be forced to host the prisoner in your home, would you do it? Or would you refuse to go ahead with the conviction? That’s the dilemma…

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Harrogate 2021 – crime goes under cover in a tent

I Know What I Saw

I Know What I Saw by Imran Mahmood

The Final Round by Bernard O’Keeffe

Not Dark Yet by Peter Robinson

The Captive

A Prince and a Spy by Rory Clements

The Captive by Deborah O’Connor

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