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...

  After thoroughly enjoying my time with Charlie, and his new boyfriend Nick in Heartstopper Vol 1 , I knew I had to complete the trilogy to...

  A Testament of Character is book 10 in the Rowland Sinclair Mystery series, and really, if you haven't dipped your toes into this se...

Maisie and I go way back. We've weathered the good times and the bad, and we've survived the time we nearly went our separate ways. ...

A big part of the reason I love reading Maigret's so much is the glimpse into life in Paris in the middle of the 20th century. Maigret a...

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...

La Conquête de Plassans , or The Conquest of Plassans (1874) is the fourth novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume Rougon-Macquart serie...

Given these weird and scary times we now live in, Angela Thirkell seems like the only sensible option! Her gentle social satire, quintes...

I'm reading Coe's trilogy about the life and times of Benjamin Trotter the wrong way round, chronologically speaking. But after r...

I do love the Costa Prize. It regularly throws up a new-to-me author or a book that I come to adore. The Costa folk have a happy knack of...

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey is exactly the type of cosy crime I enjoy reading on a cold, rainy wintery weekend. Much like...

Reading a Maigret or two during Paris in July has now become one of those things that I look forward to with a great deal of anticipation e...

Maigret's Anger  is my fifth Maigret. It was probably the lightest, easiest one of the lot so far, but it was also very atmospheric. Par...

Le Ventre de Paris (also known as The Belly of Paris - a direct translation, or The Fat and the Thin referring to one of the main ideas e...