"They say the cold won't kill you if you can remember what it was like to be warm." Welcome back to Sunder City, where we first met Fetch Phillips, Man for Hire. Sunder was one a shining beacon of industry, a vibrant and diverse community than included dwarves, vampires, and more. And then there was … Continue reading Dead Man in a Ditch – Luke Arnold
"There had been a great fire and there had been a great flood." The second instalment of The Book of the Ice picks up from the cliffhanger ending of The Girl and the Stars - so usual warning that e.g. even mentioning characters who appear in book 2 could be mild spoilers for book 1. Read on at your … Continue reading The Girl and the Mountain – Mark Lawrence
To be honest, I wasn't desperately fussed about this movie. It feels like we've had at least twenty Batmans (Batmen?) in the past couple of years, and superhero fatigue has long since set in - even for me - more generally. But then people started raving about this a bit, and I allowed myself to … Continue reading The Batman (2022)
"How far I've come, and how little I have to show for it." We first met Zax in Doors of Sleep, as he learned to deal with a mysterious condition that saw him travel to another world every time he fell asleep. I said in my review for the first installment that it was mostly world-building … Continue reading Prison of Sleep – Tim Pratt
"The trees were full of crows and the woods were full of madmen." Marra is the third daughter of the King and Queen of a small but strategically important harbour kingdom. The sisters' lives aren't wholly their own: the first is married off to a prince, as is the second when she dies. Marra is … Continue reading Nettle and Bone – T Kingfisher
Following the events of Murder on the Orient Express (2017), Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) heads to Egypt. Somehow he ends up dragged into the jealousy and threats surrounding newlyweds Simon and Linnet Doyle (Armie Hammer and Gal Godot), the latter - an extremely wealthy heiress - having 'stolen' the fiancee of a former friend who is now … Continue reading Death on the Nile (2022)
"Many babies have killed, but it is very rare that the victim is not their mother." On the barren ice fields of Abeth, Yaz and her clan are on the annual pilgrimage to the Black Rock, home of the priests that oversee all of the tribes. It is here that each youngster is tested, and … Continue reading The Girl and the Stars – Mark Lawrence
"I'd thought I could set things right in the Empire if only I'd had the means." (Following straight on from Bone Shard Daughter, usual warning that even mentioning a character in book 2 could be considered spoilers for book 1.) Lin Sukai spent book 1 creeping about on rooftops, trying to find out the secrets her … Continue reading Bone Shard Emperor – Andrea Stewart
When a murder occurs in an upper-class New York apartment building, three neighbours meet and discover a shared love of true-crime podcasts. And when they have a real case literally on their doorsteps, why not dramatise their own mystery?! As the three strangers (Steve Martin, Martin Short, Selena Gomez) work together to unravel the crime, … Continue reading Only Murders in the Building (season 1)
"Henry Kenneth Morton - know as Hooky to his associates - sat at his private table in the saloon bar of his pub, the Dark Horse, in King's Cross, perusing the heavy ledger open in front of him and comparing some of the figures with a pile of tickets from his tankers." Detective Chief Inspector … Continue reading Murder at Claridge’s – Jim Eldridge
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