UK Chica - Book and Movie Reviews

Pirate Radio

Back in the 80s, or the olden days as my youngest likes to say, we would listen to Radio Jackie. We had plenty of options on the dial but that station played a wider variety of music plus the thought of something mildly illicit was definitely attractive. Twenty years before this pirate radio stations started appearing during the rock and roll era. Continue reading » Pirate Radio

Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | By Helen Simonson

I didn’t realize until after I’d read this I have so much in common with the author. I knew she either had to have lived in the UK or at least had a very reliable source. Her knowledge of village life in England as well as the attitude toward immigrants is spot on.
The first sentence enthralls and draws you in to the retired Major’s grief. Continue reading » Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand | By Helen Simonson

Waking Up in the Land of Glitter | By Kathy Cano-Murillo

This novel is pure brain candy. I am not a ‘crafter’ but can appreciate those who are and this novel was entertaining. A good beach read with a romantic twist. The book focuses on two ladies both wanting love, security and success. Continue reading » Waking Up in the Land of Glitter | By Kathy Cano-Murillo

This Body of Death | By Elizabeth George

Lynley is trying his very best to not go back to the Force. He is on compassionate leave when he is called back to Scotland Yard. An unidentified young woman has been found stabbed in a cemetery. Continue reading » This Body of Death | By Elizabeth George

Woman With Birthmark | By Hakan Nesser

This is another Inspector Van Veeteren mystery – previously of Borkman’s Point which I loved! This story was, to me, a little more obvious but still definitely worthy. Something up with those Swedes as this book begins with a funeral. Not light hearted stuff. The woman being buried was not very old when she died but she went to her death bed after Continue reading » Woman With Birthmark | By Hakan Nesser

The Return of the Dancing Master | By Henning Mankell

Mankell deviates from his Wallander mysteries here with a new detective in a new town. This book actually begins right after the second World War in Germany with a man on a semi secret mission – not even the pilot flying the mysterious man knows who he is or what he is going to Europe to do. Fast forward 50 years Continue reading » The Return of the Dancing Master | By Henning Mankell

The Black Cat | by Martha Grimes

Finally Martha Grimes writes another Richard Jury mystery! It feels like ages since the last one! Each of her Jury mystery titles is the name of a pub or wine bar and this one follows suit. There is a black cat at The Black Cat and she is a witness to a murder. The victim, a gorgeous young lady dressed to the nines, literally. No one seems to be able to identify her including the hosts of an enormous party going on in the village at the same time as the crime – or do they? Continue reading » The Black Cat | by Martha Grimes

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