Check out our review of Mark Billingham's gritty debut featuring an evil perpetrator who wants to ensure his victims live in a "locked in" syndrome. The ones that die? Well, you cant make an omlette without breaking a few eggs can you? 🧐😲🩸🩸💉 #booksky grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2026/03/slee...

Vicrorian, murder mystery set among a pagan festival in Wales. Now then sounds tasty! Check out our review #crimecymru #victorian #murdermystery grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2026/03/paga...

Check out our review for post apocalyptic murder mystery The Last Murder At The End Of The World by Stuart Turton. At the moment its only science fiction but if Trumpy keeps going it may soon be a lived experience! grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...

See our review for the Graham Greene modern classic The Quiet American. USA, UK and France messing about in 1952 Vietnam. What could possibly go wrong 😕 😲 🇬🇧💷🇺🇸🇫🇷💣💥💔🇻🇳 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...

Jonah's back! 😁 Check out the review of Sinister Inheritance by Graham H Miller. After a stressful few months Jonah's taking a break that's until he sees a dead person sat at a cafe in France 😲📚 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/sini... grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/12/sini...

Check out our review of #DemonCopperhead by #BarbaraKingsolver. Life in the southern states of the U.S. 🇺🇸💊💔🥹 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo...

Check out our review of The Boy From The Sea the story of an abandoned baby and his adoptive family in the west of Ireland in the 70s and 80s 📚👼🏼🇮🇪 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Review for one of the most emotional books I have ever read! 🥹 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/stil...

So is Mick Herron of Slow Horses fame the Charles Dickens of our generation? 🤔 Link grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/09/mick...

Check out review for the Welsh Man by Dave Lewis. The tale of a rough bouncer/muscle for gangsters. But our man falls in love. Visceral 👊🏼💥with well penned locations 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿💂🏼 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-...

Check out our review for Close To Death by Anthony Horrowitz. Newly moved to posh area man is found dead. Everyone in the close hated him. Everyone had motive. Classic style Twisty, locked room whodunnit grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/clos...

What started out as a slightly grumpy review from book blogger @GrumpyOldBooks.bsky.social turned around when the reviewer realised I'd pulled the wool over his eyes: grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/08/free... If you want to find out the big twist, pre-order Freebourne: amzn.eu/d/22avwu6 #booksky

Welsh🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿, Medieval ⚔️ Prince 🫅🏼 marries English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Princess 👑, daughter of the evil 👿 king John. What could possibly go wrong 😲🫣. It's the historical fiction life of Llewellyn the Great! Check out our review below. grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/here...

Looking for a good book to read? Can't decide on one. It's your lucky day. We have a wide range of reviews. It's all here grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2021/10/book...

Honest and interesting book reviews here... 😁👍🏼 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2020/10/intr...

Absolutely thrilled to see Eddie in the window of the wonderful @imaginedthings.bsky.social in Harrogate!!! Thank you for such a warm welcome! And what amazing company to be in!

Have a cheeky squint of our review for Devolution by Max Brooks (the guy who brought you World War Z!) This one is a bit like Jaws but set on land but with err... Bigfoots (or should that be Big feet!) 😲🤯😱🦶🏼 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/07/devo...

See our review of The Defence by Steve Cvanagh. The origin story of Eddie Flynn. A man for all seasons, con-man, lawyer, ex-alcoholic, friend to mob bosses and judges, fighter, loving father, means justify the ends type of guy. Here is where it all began. grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

Check out our review for The Defence by Steve Cavanagh. Con-man turned lawyer uses all his tricks against the Russian mob and dodgy feds to save his daughter. It's the Eddie Flynn origin story! ⚖️👮🏼😁 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/06/the-...

In Lisvane on 8th June? At 11.30am? Then come along and listen to the brilliant @alishawkinsauthor.bsky.social and me talking all things place and time in crime fiction as part of the Lisvane Literary Festival. Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/lisvanebookf...

Thank you @grumpyoldbooks.bsky.social for this incredible review of Banquet of Beggars. It doesn't get any better than praise like this from one of the very best reviewers around. I'm going to open a bottle of wine to celebrate!

We have a review of Review Banquet of Beggars by stalwart Crime Cymru author Chris Lloyd Eddie Giral has a case to solve, a murdered black marketeer, but just who are the criminals and who are the Government. It's historical fiction but it's also the present. 😲🇫🇷🪖🧈🐖

Ahead of Crime Cymru festival this weekend we review Death by Intent by Jacqueline Harrett As always great whodunnit mixed with a reflection of society as it is now .📚🚨👮🏼🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/deat...

Thoroughly recommend popping along and seeing Chris and Philip. Both wonderful raconteurs, and jolly nice chaps. Oh and they write great books too! 📚🤪👍

Very happy paperback publication day to @pgjonesvenice.bsky.social Nathan's out in paperback in The Venetian Sanctuary.

Would you believe @gwylcrimefest.bsky.social starts a week today. I'm on a couple of panels with some amazing writers. Sunday 27th at 11am sees me and the wonderful @vaseemkhanuk.bsky.social discussing all things time and place in crime fiction. Tickets here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/gwylcrimecym...

Wow check out this lovely review by author Chris Westlake of my book Blood & Lies 🤩🎆 www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Lies-N...

Check out our latest review #TheWager by #DavidGrann Lord of the Flies meets Master and Commander grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

Check out our review of a modern classic that's shows what happens when a country falls into 2 politically opposed camps and what happens to the people involved in the front lines. 🇪🇸🪖😢 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/for-...

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National Pet Day Fri 11th April. Meet the lads. Elwyn and Kenneth 😍

That's me "done and dusted, kippers and custard" After 35 years I am now an ex-steelworker. New challenges to come 😁👍🏼

Well that's the end of an era. And as Max Boyce says "I took my helmet home with me and filled it full of earth. Planted lil flowers in it and they grew for all they're worth. It's hanging in the greenhouse now, a living memory. Reminding me, they could have grown in vases over me" Duw it's hard

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Check out our review for another spy classic by Mick Herron. See the origin of Jackson Lamb and others in this belter. More back stabbing than Julius Caesar on a night out in Rome, more political intrigue than a Trump-Putin world domination meeting! grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-...

You die and enter The Cloud - a surveillance room where you can watch everyone and everything forever. Or you can make an Intervention, make one ripple in the course of history, in exchange for eternal life. Would you do it? What would you change? All links in my bio!

Check out our review of a modern classic that's shows what happens when a country falls into 2 politically opposed camps and what happens to the people involved in the front lines. 🇪🇸🪖😢 grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/04/for-...

Check out our latest review #TheWager by #DavidGrann Lord of the Flies meets Master and Commander grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-...

It’s Dydd Gŵyl Dewi, but that’s not the only reason to celebrate as this year’s Gŵyl Crime Cymru Festival programme is now live! We have an amazing lineup of writers, and look forward to seeing you in Aberystwyth! gwylcrimecymrufestival.co.uk

Ernest Hemingway. For Whom The Bell Tolls. I guess Hemingway knew what the USA was really like way back in 1940. Sadly they could not be educated and now fascists rule 😢

Happy StDavid's to all my fellow Welsh people 😁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

America is an absolute disgrace at the moment 🇺🇦

Please please could whichever broadcaster is doing the #sixnations rugby provide a commentary free but hear the crowd and referee audio options. The commentary is always dire 😳

I'm thrilled to announce that Mosaic is now available as an #audiobook!🖤👂 Narrated and produced by Mary Phillips of Riveting Nation who did a wonderful job! Thank you, Mary!🙏 (Click link, then select Audiobook: mybook.to/hhDt) #Audiobooks #Audible #Booksky

Power struggles, political intrigue, dictatorship v democracy. No it's not the USA today. It's Rome 2000 years ago! Check out our review...Claudius The God by Robert Graves grumpyoldbooks.blogspot.com/2025/02/clau...

Welcome to Gwyl Crime Cymru Festival 2025! Only ten weeks then we'll be back in Aberystwyth with lots of lovely book loving readers and writers. Tickets go on sale on March 1, 2025, because it's St David's Day and we are proud of being Welsh. Do drop in if you can.

If it's not going to be The Gulf of Mexico then surely its got to be Gulfy McGulfface. *This may well be a niche reference for UK 😲