by Jo Monroe | Apr 4, 2013 | Crime drama posts, Reviews
After much hype up on ITV (all those spooky trailers from the police cells) the first episode of the third series of Scott and Bailey finally hit our screens last night. Was it worth the wait? (Not to mention the breathless anticipation.) Big changes Andy’s gone...
by Jo Monroe | Mar 27, 2013 | Crime fiction posts, Reviews
Can a popular TV series be successfully novelised? That must have been the question Cath Staincliffe was asking herself when she agreed to take on the task of writing the prequel novel to the first series of Scott and Bailey. And she had less than four months from...
by Jo Monroe | Nov 21, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Reviews
Well it seems a bit of a trend has started. From Hilary Boyd’s novel clinging to the top of the Amazon Kindle charts, to the Guardian Weekend magazine’s grandparent special last Saturday, it would appear there’s a ‘more mature person’...
by Jo Monroe | Jun 26, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Reviews
If you’ve never ventured onto BBC3 assuming it’s just not for you, now’s the time to pause before you skip through to BBC4 for another fabulous Scandi crime drama. Because the Beeb have done something much more adventurous than the Danish and Swedish...
by Jo Monroe | Mar 19, 2012 | Crime fiction posts, Reviews
As a continuation of my occasional series of reviews of crime novels featuring woman protagonists, this week I will be mostly investigating… Vera Stanhope. Silent Voices is my first venture into the world of Detective Inspector Stanhope of Northumbria Police and...
by Jo Monroe | Mar 13, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts, Reviews
And a triumphant one it was too. Monday night’s episode started in the ladies’, with the DCI panicking over a TV appearance. That scene was swiftly followed by Scott and Bailey walking and talking their way out of the police station. An homage to Cagney...
