Catherine Turnbull

The Dead of Winter

12 January, 2021

Nicola Upson continues her series featuring Golden Age crime writer Josephine Tey and embraces the tradition of the classic country estate mystery in this thrilling homage to the genre. The Dead of Winter is a festive whodunit set in December 1938, as storm clouds of…

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The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

By Catherine Turnbull

30 December, 2020

Christmas is approaching but there is little good cheer in the bitterly cold air in Haworth, Yorkshire, in December 1845. The literary geniuses turned sleuths Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë are about to investigate their second sinister case and it has a grim gothic chill to…

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Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2020

By Catherine Turnbull

17 December, 2020

It’s not been the best year and travelling to more challenging past eras through the portal of modern historical crime novels and thrillers has been a welcome holiday from 2020. My selection includes books set in War World II, the dark and dangerous world of 19th century…

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The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson

By Catherine Turnbull

11 December, 2020

Back during the Golden Age of mystery writing the festive whodunit was a tradition. One of the many characters in The Dead of Winter curls up with Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot’s Christmas as he is trapped with others on an island cut off from the…

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All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

By Catherine Turnbull

3 November, 2020

Like this book’s author, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec is revisiting Paris – a place that haunts him with shadows of the past – from his home near Montréal in Canada. He’s in the City of Light with his wife Reine-Marie, son and daughter, and their spouses…

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To Cook a Bear

By Catherine Turnbull

26 October, 2020

This beguiling book by Mikael Niemi is a mash up of genres with historical crime, coming-of-age and literary novel tropes that manages to be reflective and page-turning. In Sweden in 1852 real life revivalist Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, and Jussi, a runaway Sami boy, turn detective and use…

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To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi

By Catherine Turnbull

7 October, 2020

Translated by Deborah Bragan-Turner — A young boy and a father figure in the woods are collecting botanical specimens, a bucolic scene a few pages in from the opening to this beguiling historical crime novel. The man is Pastor Lars Levi Laestadius, who was the real-life leader of a…

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Interview: SJ Watson talks about his new book Final Cut

By Catherine Turnbull

31 August, 2020

SJ Watson’s first novel, Before I Go To Sleep, became a phenomenal international success selling over six million copies worldwide. It won the Crime Writers’ Association Award for Best Debut Novel and the Galaxy National Book Award for Crime Thriller of the Year, and has been translated…

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The Dead of Winter

The Diabolical Bones by Bella Ellis

Catherine Turnbull: Top five books of 2020

The Dead of Winter by Nicola Upson

All the Devils Are Here by Louise Penny

To Cook a Bear

To Cook a Bear by Mikael Niemi

Interview: SJ Watson talks about his new book Final Cut

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