I’m over at Shiny New Books today in a three-hander review along with Liz and Karen of some new titles from Lonely Planet.
Lonely Planet Journey – Route 66
My choice was totally new guide Route 66 – which is a traditional Lonely Planet travel guide, but with upped insight content – loads of interesting articles between the sections travelling the road from Chicago to Santa Monica. I’m purely an armchair traveller these days, but the photography is excellent and the insights fab. I’d love to do this road-trip…
Read my review (and the others) in full HERE.
Moscow Underground by Catherine Merridale
I also reviewed this historical thriller set in 1934 Moscow during the building of the underground. Anton Belkin is a criminal investigator for the Procuracy. One day, Belkin finds his former lover Vika, who now works for OGPU, the secret police, waiting for him – she needs his help to investigate the suspicious death of an archaeology professor who was involved with Shaft 7 of the underground.
As a quite intense literary crime thriller with many twists and turns, Moscow Underground succeeds, particularly because Merridale’s main protagonist Belkin, and his frenemy Vika are so well drawn, plus 1930s Moscow sounds such a fascinating if dangerous place.
Read my review in full HERE.
