by Jo Monroe | May 20, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
***Stop press*** Episode 3 of Vera will be screened on ITV at 9.00pm on Sunday 3 June. For those of you wondering what happened to the wonderful Vera Stanhope last week (Sunday 13 May) and why you can’t find the third episode on ITV player – the programme...
by Jo Monroe | May 1, 2012 | Crime fiction posts
For details about the actress playing the part see Rachel Bailey’s mother – revealed. For reviews of series 3, start here. When the final episode of ‘Scott and Bailey’ ended last night visitor numbers to this blog went through the roof. There was a bit of...
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 | Feb 2, 2012 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
In his review of episode 1, John Crace of the Guardian suggested that Whitechapel (Mondays 9:00pm ITV1) was best watched on autopilot while you’re actually doing something else. So I thought I’d watch and blog about it simultaneously – saves a lot of...
by Jo Monroe | Nov 16, 2011 | Crime drama posts, Crime fiction posts
Finally got around to seeing this marathon five-nighter. And the verdict? Meh. I had high hopes, I mean – Peter Morgan for gawd’s sakes! But in the end it felt a bit damp squibbish, a little watered-down and lowest common denominated. Which is a bloody big...