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Today Mandie and I are doing something a little different, a collection of reviews of books from The Reading Agency Quick Reads initiative. @mgriffiths163 @readingagency #AADhand #ClareMackintosh #PeterJames #AnnCleeves

Today Mandie and I are being a little different. We both love supporting the Quick Reads initiative from The Reading Agency and have bought a few of the books over the past couple of years. Christmas and New Year seemed as good a time as any to play catch up on some of those books so we’ve got mini reviews of four of the many Quick Reads titles on offer – Darkness Rising, The Donor, Wish You Were…

One Way Out by A A Dhand

One Way Out is the fourth book by Bradford author, Amit Dhand featuring his controversial cop, Harry Virdee. While each of the crime stories in the books work perfectly well as stand-alones, the personal story of Harry and his family weaves its way relentlessly through the books in chronological order.

Each of Dhand’s books is dark, indeed they become progressively darker but this novel is…

Girl Zero by AA Dhand

I first met Amit Dhand last year at Swnawick Writers’ Summer School and was delighted to see him return in August to run a short course there. He also took part in an evening event with fellow crime writers, Simon Hall, Sophie Hannah and poet Alison Chisholm. Last year, I read, and reviewed on this site, his debut novel The Streets of Darkness. So I was looking forward to his second novel, Girl…