Crooked Herring

It seemed such a long time since hapless crime writer Ethelred Tressider and his chocolate loving literary agent Elsie Thirkettle found themselves entangled in criminal doings, and I had begun to thin...

I love the Elsie and Ethelred series by L C Tyler - and this is another winner. It is a well-written book with good characters, a steady plot and some laughs along the way. As is the case with all the...

this book in the series was easy going read but not a literacy classic though, the plot was a bit weird ...

Light hearted read. ...

If you’re looking for an entertaining read, a book that is as near as unputdownable as is physically and emotionally possible and a book that is not only infectious but humorous to boot then Crooked...

A good read but for me, not as good as the earlier ones in the series. I found it slow going at first with only Ethelred featuring. He is rather wet (as my mother would have kindly put it) & I felt my...

An adventure for Ethelred and Elsie that is less fast moving, but a complex plot of deceit, bluff and mysteries. This book definitely works as a standalone from the previous books as provided that Eth...

Ethelred is approached by another writer asking him to figure out whether he killed someone. Henry Holiday woke up after a bender with the thought that he had committed murder. But he's not sure who. ...

Ethelred gets himself into a situation that the reader knows exactly how he is being manipulated, but has to slowly watch Ethelred walk into every trap set. Ethelred is innocently following along in o...

A book with the opening sentence 'It is always a mistake to confess to murder while wearing a paisley bow tie' can't be bad. This is the first of the 'Herring' mysteries I have read and I hope it won'...