Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Missing and believed kidnapped by the Mafia, two of the world’s most recognisable holy men embark on a secret, impromptu road trip across the appealing Italian countryside in a delightfully whimsical novel from acclaimed American author Roland Merullo.
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Wine, women and bulldozers are the three ruling muses in the charming and amusing fourth stand-alone novel from prolific, bestselling Scottish author Alexander McCall Smith. Set in Montalcino, an idyllic town in Tuscany, Italy, noted for its fine red wine, My Italian Bulldozer is a quirky novel revolving around romantic complications, noble deeds, and the spirit of adventure.
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: After an absence of almost 20 years, Stephen Dobyns’ popular laconic hero, former police sergeant turned private eye Charlie Bradshaw, makes a welcome return to the sleuthing world in a lively tale of multiple murder, mutilation and horse-napping.
Litchfield Reviews Saratoga Payback by Stephen Dobyns for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: In the suspenseful new detective novel Celine, bestselling American author Peter Heller creates a most unexpected heroine.
Litchfield Reviews Peter Heller’s Celine for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: In the latest novel in the highly addictive Bow Street Rivals series, identical-twin detectives Peter and Paul Skillen are embroiled in a dangerous case of treachery, fraud and murder involving two ill-matched duellists sparring over a beautiful woman.
Litchfield Reviews Date with the Executioner by Edward Marston for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: In his bold debut story collection, Joseph Scapellato takes aim at the American frontier’s familiar gun-toting, galloping figures and proceeds to blast 25 blistering holes clean through them.
Litchfield Reviews Big Lonesome by Joseph Scapellato for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Reprinted for the first time in 57 years comes a hard-hitting crime noir tour de force charting a gutsy musician’s bruising journey through the cut-throat American music business during the Dirty Thirties to the Fabulous Fifties.
Litchfield Reviews Angel’s Flight by Lou Cameron for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Old family wounds are reopened during a treacherous, blood-splattered journey through Wyoming to track down a valuable deeded property in a gritty Western from Spur Award-winning author Matthew P. Mayo.
Litchfield Reviews North of Forsaken by Matthew P. Mayo for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Love and marriage, freedom and loneliness, and risk and misadventure are some of the themes in the latest instalment of prolific, bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith’s delightfully witty 44 Scotland Street series.
The Bertie Project, the eleventh novel in the immensely popular series focused on the lives of a small community of people inhabiting a somewhat Bohemian corner of Edinburgh’s New Town, finds many of the streets best-loved residents buffeted by the winds of change.
Litchfield Reviews The Bertie Project by Alexander McCall Smith for the Lancashire Post Read More »
Lancashire Post book review by Nicholas Litchfield: Colourful, real-life American outlaw Pat Crowe, the most wanted man in America at the turn of the century, is masterfully resurrected in the epic, action-packed Western novel World, Chase Me Down.
Andrew Hilleman’s riveting debut chronicles the incredible exploits of a hardened criminal who gained notoriety in 1900 for kidnapping and holding to ransom the teenage son of a meatpacking tycoon in Omaha and got away with $25,000 in gold.
Litchfield Reviews World, Chase Me Down by Andrew Hilleman for the Lancashire Post Read More »
