I used to read a lot of Tanya Landman when I was a member of the British Library. I remember Apache, Hell and High Water and The Goldsmith's Daughter, but I feel I've read more! Recently, at Kahaani Box, I found Mondays Are Murder, and even though I don't usually pick up murder mysteries, I picked it up because it was by Tanya Landman ... and I wasn't disappointed! Poppy Fields is off camping on a remote Scottish island. But one by one, all the camping instructors start dropping dead. Could it be a ghost? A series of accidents? Or murder? I don't think I've read any other murder mysteries for this age group, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. For one, unlike most other books in the genre, it wasn't a thick volume with detail after detail that the reader must remember. It's all of 107 pages of action and adventure. For another, I am not a fan of gore or any graphic details, and … [Read more...]