As things start to unfold the questions that you have been looking for answers to start to get closer. Some of the characters that seemed so...

One of the immediate challenges for a reader going through books that are set years apart is to find a reference point that makes it clear w...

Only a few years ago any museum, cathedral or exhibition you went to always ended with a trip to the shop and a bookmark purchase. But these...

This is clearly going to be a day one through to 44 but each day uses plenty of historical material to not only sketch out the story of the ...

I am not going to give away the ending but just when you think progress is being made the case is closed on the Ripper but the old wounds re...

After the trials and tribulations of 1974 and 1977 you put your faith in the main character of Peter Hunter but he is being dragged down by ...

The lyrical poetical side of this book is becoming more pronounced as the killing continues and the pressure starts to mount on Hunter direc...

When a book becomes synonymous with a film it is difficult to enjoy one without evaluating the influence of the other. In my case I had not ...

Hunter and his team start to go through the murders but the madness that is at the fringes of the Ripper hunt starts to infect Hunter himsel...

There are always two approaches to a series of books. Either you read them all at once or leave gaps in between. Having taken the decision t...

It's rare for humour to last across a couple of generations. It can still cause a smile but books like Scoop and three men in a Boat are...

The pace in the book is exhilirating towards the end and even though the ending isn't quite what you expected it is enough of a conclusi...

The parallel stories of Bob Fraser the policeman and Jack Whitehead the crime reporter are linked in several ways with both sharing a connec...

You have the twin characters of the policeman Fraser and the crime reporter Whitehead both losing control. Fraser has fallen in love with a ...

When this book first came out it rather past me by. Being neither a Leeds United fan, that bothered about Brian Clough or a conniseuir of fo...