Brona's Books

  I've been wanting to read a Sherlock Holmes story for a long time now. I purchased my lovely Knickerbocker classic editions about five...

Police procedural is not my usual fare, but sometimes book club leads me down a path I wouldn't choose for myself, yet it turns out ok...

Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line attracted my attention initially thanks to the cover. That big eye seemed to follow me around everywhere...

I suspect I'm going to be the lone dissenting voice when it comes to Boy Swallows Universe by Trent Dalton. This is a debut Australia...

A Maigret Christmas contains three very different stories by Georges Simenon - A Maigret Christmas, Seven Small Crosses in a Notebook and T...

On the scorching February day in 2009 that became known as Black Saturday, a man lit two fires in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley, then sat on th...

Also known as Signed Picpus or Maigret and the Fortune Teller , Signe Picpus was one of the three Maigret books that Simenon published in 1...

I'm not usually a big reader of crime fiction. During my younger days I enjoyed a good mystery wrapped up in an adventure series (than...

Maigret's First Case is my second Georges Simenon book. I'm not reading the Maigret books in any particular order and so far it do...

Georges Simenon (1903 - 1989) is a Belgian writer best known for his 75 book Maigret crime series. One of my regular bookshop customers h...

During my recent blogging malaise, Maisie Dobbs kept me sane and calm. She is familiar, comfortable and cosy. Although some of the crimes ar...

So I figure the only thing to do to find my words again, is to simply start writing and see what happens! During this most recent blue fun...

I read The Fall by Australian writer Tristan Bancks  as one of my recent #readathon books. Bancks has been very successful with his pr...

Book 6 in a series may be an odd place to start, but Strong Poison: A Lord Wimsey Mystery made its way into my backpack for our recent ho...

Now what am I going to do? I've just finished the seventh book in Gentil's Rowland Sinclair series, Give the Devil His Due ...and...

Thank you Sulari Gentill. Thank you, thank you, thank you! At the beginning of November I visited Gentill's website to check when ...