For a while now I’ve been following John Donoghue on Twitter. Usually it’s humorous posts or things about his dog. Then the other day he added a couple of tweets about his books being on Amazon. So I decided to check them out. The first one I bought was Police, Arrests and Suspects. An interesting… More The True Story of a Front Line Officer
The City Adventurers are looking forward to a luxury weekend break on Dino Island. Yes we are a little concerned that the brochure describes the the tropical island getaway as “Where there is more to fear than the unknown.” But that’s just marketing, right? Who wants to join us on this trip organised by Red Herring Games?… More Escape From Dino Island
As Halloween approached, the City Adventurers decided to head to The Concorde in Eastleigh for a Halloween Celebration. We’d been there for afternoon tea in the summer and were looking forward to meeting up with old friends. We were instructed to wear Halloween costumes and duly packed our Vampire attire. It wasn’t until we were about to… More A Monster Murder Mystery in Eastleigh
From the#1 bestselling authors Hillary Clinton and Louise Penny comes a novel of unsurpassed thrills and incomparable insider expertise – STATE OF TERROR. STATE OF TERROR follows a novice Secretary of State who has joined the administration of her rival, a president inaugurated after four years of American leadership that shrank from the world stage.… More State of Terror: A Novel
James Patterson and Bill Clinton – the ‘dream team’ (Lee Child) – return with a thriller even more compelling than global number one bestseller The President is Missing . ALL PRESIDENTS HAVE NIGHTMARES. THIS ONE IS ABOUT TO COME TRUE. Matthew Keating, a one-time Navy SEAL and a former US President , has always defended his family as fiercely… More The President’s Daughter
In September we were invited down to the English village of Marshtown and a meeting of the local cocktail appreciation society. The group were facing a potential change in their leadership committee and tensions were running extremely high. Some members were visibly shaken by events taking place. Others were stirred into action by threats of… More What’s your poison?
Having a clear out we came upon these murder mystery books by S T Haymon. All are available from Amazon. Death And The Pregnant Virgin was originally published in 1980. It was the first crime thriller to feature Detective Inspector Benjamin Jurnet. The action starts in a small village in Norfolk. Nearby an ancient statue has… More S T Haymon books
You’ve read the books. Now complete the collage jigsaw. This 1000 piece puzzle, from Susan Prescot Games Ltd, shows a range of vintage book covers by Agatha Christie. No mystery to solve, just a wonderful display of some of her titles. Agatha Christie – Classic Covers Jigsaw
The City Adventurers were in Edinburgh, birthplace of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. So it was only fitting we help Conan Doyle’s greatest creation, Sherlock Holmes, in solving a mystery. And so it was that we found ourselves investigating A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery……. We joined the mystery maestros from the Highly Suspect theatre for an interactive murder… More A Highly Suspect Murder Mystery
Don’t you love that new detective series “Isolated crimes” with Inspector Corner? He introduces the details of a case, then asks the audience “was it an accident or was it murder?” His latest show involved a Mystic Murder. A fortune teller, Mystic Myrtle, was plying her trade at a local fairground when Laura Dent decided… More Mystic Murder