On the blog last week
Tuesday – My take on this week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic was – suitably for April Fool’s Day – Books Featuring Fools and Tricksters.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Thursday – I published my review of The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden one of the books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the shortlist for The Women’s Prize for Fiction.
Saturday – I took part in #6Degrees of Separation forging a book chain from Knife by Salman Rushdie to The Island of Sheep by John Buchan.
New on my shelves
Evil in High Places by Rory Clements (eARC, Viking via NetGalley)
The closer you get, the further you have to fall
Munich, 1936. All eyes are on the Bavarian capital for the upcoming Olympic games. As athletes fight for gold and the Nazis fight for power, Detective Sebastian Wolff faces a battle of his own.
A famous actress has disappeared and Wolff has been ordered to find her, fast. But Elena Lang is no ordinary film-star: she is the mistress of Joseph Goebbels – Hitler’s right-hand-man in the party that Wolff despises.
But corruption runs deep in Munich and Elena is just the first to go missing. In a search that will take him from high society to the city’s darkest corners, Wolff is about to learn just how easily the hunter becomes the hunted: this is a city on the brink of war, and some enemies are better left alone.
What I’m currently reading
I’m dipping into The CIA Book Club from time to time, listening to The Belladonna Maze on audio, and switching between Glorious Exploits (one of the books on the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction) and a review copy of Defender of the Wall sent to me by the author.
Look out for…
- Book Review: The Injustice of Valor by Gary Corbin
- Book Review: Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall
- My Top 3 March 2025 Reads
- Book Review: Legionary: Devotio by Gordon Doherty
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