Tag: dark crime
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My Dot Hutchison The Collector Series Review
Probably my favourite series I read this year, and certainly the one that surprised me the most in terms of how much I enjoyed it, The Collector Series by Dot Hutchison is truly something I cannot stop thinking about. With its dark adult crime fiction foundations reminiscent of Criminal Minds, the character interactions and relationships…
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The Vanishing Season – The Nail-Biting Ending to Dot Hutchison’s Masterful Crime Fiction Series
Dot Hutchison is lucky I haven’t met her, because I have many things I wish to say to her. Namely, how can she leave us readers to blubber and wipe our tears all on our lonesomes after that heartbreaking, beautiful read. The Vanishing Season is not the read I expected as a whole, but it…
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The Summer Children by Dot Hutchison Will Have Your Skin Crawling
The Butterfly Garden and The Roses of May were great, but there is something about Dot Hutchison’s third instalment in The Collector series, The Summer Children, that had me stuck right in there. With the quick pacing, dark storyline, compelling plot, fantastic characters, and jarring detail, it will be impossible to put down. Content Warning:…
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The Roses of May by Dot Hutchison is a Hair-Raising, Scarily Good Read
I’m back with another novel from The Collector series by Dot Hutchison, this one being The Roses of May. I thoroughly enjoyed The Butterfly Garden, and as soon as I finished it, I requested the this one and the third one, The Summer Children, for my mum to read. I was going to try and…
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The Dark and Sinister Tale of Dot Hutchison’s The Butterfly Garden
I requested The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison thanks to one of my trusted Bookstagram readers, and given the number of novels I had to read in a short time, I gave it to my mum to read first. She zoomed through it. I just finished it, and even being under the weather couldn’t prevent…
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My Brain Hurts After Reading Janice Hallett’s The Examiner
I’m in shock after reading Janice Hallett’s The Examiner, in part due of how creative and immersive it is and in part because of all the layers and how they culminate in a wild, tension-filled conclusion. I didn’t know what to expect when I picked up this dark academia crime novel, but it certainly wasn’t…
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Complete Immersion in C.S. Harris’s What Cannot Be Said
It has been months, if not a year, since I last read a C.S. Harris book, but the incredible immersion and atmosphere of the Regency-era London has hooked me in once more with her newest release, What Cannot Be Said. When a sweet summer picnic is ruined by the gruesome deaths of a mother and…
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The Chestnut Man by Søren Sveistrup is a Dark Crime Thriller Must Read
The Chestnut Man is the adult crime fiction thriller to read. It has a series of murders that get more gruesome the deeper into the story we go, at times giving you that visceral reaction from the description of the victims. It has a year-old missing persons case that returns to the spotlight, bringing with…