For Barry, who has lived in Hong Kong for 13 years working for the Hong Kong Academy of Ice Hockey as its general manager and coach, the days have been long since he returned from Canada, and the brutal scene of his son’s murder remains etched in his memory.
Barry said his son was “filled with compassion”, a budding young man who was studying mental health and addiction at the University of Nova Scotia in the hope of helping those around him. Read More...
Crime novels these days are often served to readers in conveyor-belt style, with parts assembled on a tried and tested framework. However, Andrew Taylor's Naked to the Hangman, the eighth in the series, has a quality that lifts it above competitors in the genre. Part of the book's charm is the setting - a fictional Anglo-Welsh town in the 1950s - and the characters, including Richard Thornhill. The Lydmouth detective, it turns out, has a past not even his wife knows about. Read More...
On a recent night at 3am I awoke suddenly and felt it — there it was in the left breast, a lump as hard and stationary as the first one. My breath stopped, the air stopped. I felt around again, hoping that I was imagining this, only I wasn’t. WTF! &^%$*, argh…
I flipped on the lights, my thoughts down spiraling into an abyss. This can’t be happening; is it possible that a tumour could grow back so quickly (I suddenly had this image of a scene from Superman 2 where the bad guys return. Read More...