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Nigel Adams Bookworm

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5 years Merchant Navy, 30 years Fire Service 12 of which dedicated Fire Investigator, 12 years Uni Lecturer on BSc Fire and Rescue at Wlv Uni. A fire forensic consultant. Book reviews at www.nigeladamsbookworm.com.

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Crimson Thaw by Bruce Robert Coffin is the start of what has now become my favourite American Crime series. Review in the link below.⬇️ @coffin_bruce Image of books cover. A winding river with forests either side Available on kindleunlimited nigeladamsbookworm.com/2026/09/02/c...

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Bruce Robert Coffin I think I may have found my new favourite American Crime Fiction series This is book one of four so far published in the Detective Brock Justice series, and the good news for th…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

I’m a bit late to the party with this one, but my life, it’s the best book I’ve read this year Twisted by Steven Cavanagh. The title could not be more appropriated My review in the link⬇️ @SteveCavanagh_ #mustread nigeladamsbookworm.com/2026/07/30/t...

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Twisted. Steven Cavanagh

I started writing this review before I was halfway through the book. Why? Because I was sure that the twists that were already in the story were some of the best, and surprising, I’ve read in any b…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The DI Ridpath series by @WriterMJLee is the gift that just keeps giving. What The Dying See is book 12 and another original murder plot sits nicely with the ongoing private life of Ridpath. My review in the link below⬇️ #mustread nigeladamsbookworm.com/2026/07/19/w...

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What The Dying See. M.J Lee

DI Ridpath series, book 12 What I like about this series is the fact that M.J Lee always manages to find a plot that includes something either topical, or something that could quite easily happen. …

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

A new author to me and very much up there with the likes of James Ellroy when it comes to short crime series. This is my review of the first three books in the Gold Coast Quartet by Iain Ryan. Anybody looking for a gritty crime thriller these are for you nigeladamsbookworm.com/2026/04/24/t...

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The Gold Coast Quartet books 1-3. Iain Ryan

The Strip, The Dream, The Casino A review of the first three books because the fourth is yet to be published. I recently reviewed a book series set in the Ganglands of London over several decades, …

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Another cracker from the Queen of Black Country Crime. Wicked Women by Angela Marsons continues the best crime series I’ve read Review⬇️ nigeladamsbookworm.com/2026/04/14/w...

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Wicked Women. Angela Marsons

It must be every Police Officers nightmare case. A completely random murder of a woman who has no enemies. She has done nothing wrong, or has she. When the first body is discovered that is what Kim…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

The 12th Cleansing by @NJosephGlass Have I saved one of the best crime reads of the year till the end of the year. I think I have. A brilliant read with great characters. Review in the link ⬇️ nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/12/23/t...

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The 12th Cleansing. N. Joseph Glass

I may have left on of the best reads of 2025 to one of the last reads of 2025. N. Joseph Glass is a new name to me but one I will be watching out for. The story is that of the investigation into th…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

A read of two sections. The first 85% is brilliant, the last 15 had me giddy and confused by the amount of twists and turns. Mimik by Sebastian Fitzek. #book #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/12/16/m...

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Unbound by Penelope Bloom. I’ve read a few of this genre now, and this one is by far the best. @MtLeopardPress nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/11/29/u...

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Unbound. Penelope Bloom

A couple of years ago I was looking for a new genre and was getting a lot of reviews on my timelines about Fantasy Fiction, and mainly Academy Fantasy fiction. Having read a few of these over the l…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

If you recognise the program from the cover, and who wouldn’t, you’ll love the book. A great Christmas present, laugh out loud funny in places, serious in others, enlightening throughout #books #mustread #christmaspresent nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/11/16/m...

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Mr Wilman’s Motoring Adventure

Andy Wilman There’s a picture on the cover of this book. Three men, with their backs to the viewer, standing on an open road with an arm, extending towards them from a car, a hand holding a white e…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

If Stephen King wrote cosy crime he would come up with something like this. Chapter One by Michael Wood is a cracking story, but when the killer is revealed I realised just how good a psychological thriller this was. Review in the link⬇️ #booksky #bookblog nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/10/03/c...

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Chapter One. Michael Wood

A clever thriller that had me convinced I knew who the killer was, until I didn’t, and then I realised just how dark this story is. Reclusive author Aiden Cullen hasn’t left his house for years. Th…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Looking for opinions on The Girl in Cell A by Vaseem Khan. I loved the book right up till the last few chapters. Review ⬇️ #books #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/07/14/t...

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The Girl In Cell A. Vaseem Khan

To start this review I have to say that I really enjoyed this book, up until the last two or three chapters. So to start with the plot is brilliant. Orianna, the girl in…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Secrets of Forest Lane, an incredible psychological crime thriller set around a small group of people all with children in the same nursery class. A great murder story with a bit of spice. Review in the link ⬇️ #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/06/16/t...

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The Secrets Of Forest Lane. Sian Morgan

The first few chapters of this book are scene setters so please don’t think you’ve stumbled across an urban romance, because that’s the last thing this book is. This is a psychological thriller, an…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

I love a good espionage book and have struggled to find new ones over the last few years. Then I discovered David McCloskey and the Damascus Station. Well this is the second book in the series Moscow X and it’s brilliant. Review in the link ⬇️ nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/05/22/m...

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Moscow X David McCloskey

Espionage fiction at its best. When a high ranking KSB Official sends one of his thugs to steal gold from the bank of one of the new rich it tips the first domino in a long and twisting line. The g…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

A cracking espionage book just like the ones I used to love reading when there were plenty on the shelves. Damascus Station by David McCloskeyis a dark complex read set towards the end of the Assad regime in Syria. #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/04/28/d...

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Damascus Station. David McCloskey

This is one of the easiest reviews I’ve written. Buy the book. My formative years of reading were taken up reading great espionage books by the likes of Robert Ludlum, Alistair McLean, Nelson Demil…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

@The Seven by Robyn Delvey A new author to me and a cracking start to a new series review in the link below #booksky @robyndelvey.bsky.social nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/04/14/t...

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The Seven Robyn Delvey

43 Dead, 24 injured. Two bombs devastate a London Theatre. The Seven are the survivors of the gang that took the audience hostage during the celebration of a famous actress, before detonating two b…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

The best book I’ve read this year. THE CHEMIST by A A Dhand. A story of loyalties and revenge. Who better to take down a local drug lord , than the local pharmacist. But has he got the nerve. #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/04/01/t...

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The Chemist A.A Dhand

A massive heads up to give about a book that I think is the best crime thriller I’ve read this year. Not set with a cop as the main character, but with a pharmacist who is just trying to do the rig…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

What The Dead Want by MJ Lee. A brilliant addition to one of my favourite series. A unique main character in DI Tom Ridpath, a marvellously layered murder investigation, what is not to like. Review in the link⬇️ @mjlee2307 #bookskye #bookreview #bookblog nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/03/21/w...

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What The Dead Want. M.J Lee

DI Ridpath #10 This series is constantly one of my top two British crime thriller, police procedural, reads M.J Lee has created a unique character. DI Tom Ridpath has two jobs. His main job is in t…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Hunted by Abir Mukherjee. A modern day story that is a throw back to books by the likes of Ludlum and DeMille #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/02/24/h...

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Hunted Abir Mukherjee

If you’ve missed the type of book that Robert Ludlum wrote back in the 70s and 80s, or some of the early Tom Clancy novels, then this book set firmly in the modern day is definitely for you. Hunted…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A middle aged man’s review of the eagerly awaited Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. I’m not the target audience but last year I read the first two in the series and enjoyed them. Was this one worth the wait and the hype #bookskye #bookreview link to review ⬇️ nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/02/12/o...

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Onyx Storm Rebecca Yarros

To start with I acknowledge that I am not the target audience for this book. Last year I read the first two in the series, Fourth Wing and Iron Flame, as a challenge to myself to read a different g…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A new author to me and I don’t know how she hasn’t been on my radar before. Hidden by Kendra Elliot is a brilliant opening to a new series. A crime thriller with a great story, great characters, and a tension which boils over, that kept me gripped. #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/01/30/h...

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Hidden. Kendra Elliott

Billed as book 1 in the Bone Secrets series, and what an opener. Looking online there are 5 books in this series, so far, and I can’t wait to get stuck into the next one. Forensic Odontologist Lace…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

THE UNRAVELLING by Vi Keeland. A dark psychological thriller that has some well disguised twists that kept me reading till well into the night. Highly recommended. @ViKeeland #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/01/13/t...

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The Unravelling Vi Keeland

A dark psychological thriller with some well disguised twists that keep coming right up to the last page. Written in the first person from Dr Meredith McCalls point of view. At the start of the boo…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Any authors out there this is a bit about my life in the Fire Service. 30 years 18 at some of the busiest stations and 12 as a Fire Investigator. I’ve helped a few authors with Fire scenes and protocols and have some good acknowledgments Always happy to help. nigeladamsbookworm.com/2015/01/07/a...

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A bit more about me, and my life in the Fire Service

People ask “what was the worst fire you went to, what was the biggest fire you went to, what was the worst thing you saw?” The thing that I remember most is “the blue light oasis&…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

#Booksky Wow. The best short crime series I’ve read The Collector series by Dot Hutchison 4 books, each from the point of view of a different member of an FBI team that specialises in crimes against children, and one of the victims. Clever and engrossing nigeladamsbookworm.com/2025/01/07/t...

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The Collector Series. Dot Hutchison

There are four books in this series, I picked the first one up over Christmas and finished the last one on the second of January. Yes, I was hooked. This is a remarkable series, not just for the st…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A bit of a rant by myself, a man that loves books but hates literature snobs. #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/12/24/c...

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Classic? What are they, and why ban one because writing styles might offend.

A recent headline in Wales got me thinking. The Welsh Joint Education Committee have banned the “Classic”, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, from its GCSE reading and studying list, stating racism …

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

#booksky. An interesting year of reading. The blog in the link below is a look at some of my highlights. Mainly Crime Fiction, a personal True Crime and surprisingly a Fantasy series. nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/12/23/b...

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Books of the Year

It’s that time of year again. Hopefully all the presents are brought and wrapped. I just thought I’d look back at my favourite reads of the year, and add links to my original blogs My favourite boo…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

When I blogged a review about Ink Black Heart I had quite a few agreeing with me, and a few who thought I was wrong. Now it’s in TV I’m really enjoying it, whilst many are panning it. Just goes to show, everyone has their own taste. Original blog ⬇️ #booksky nigeladamsbookworm.com/2022/09/19/t...

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The Ink Black Heart. Robert Galbraith. An honest review by a fan

Like it says in the title of the blog I’m a fan of “Robert Galbraith” just like I’m a fan of J.K Rowling. I’ve loved every book in the Strike/Ellicot series, so I hope everyone will understand that…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

The Dark Arches by Andrew Barrett is a brilliant story that comes with a big but……you really have to read the first book Random Kill first. Both these books are great, and it’s really one story. So first one first then this ⬇️ @AndrewBarrettUK #book nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/12/17/t...

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The Dark Arches. Andrew Barrett

This is the second book in the DS Regan Carter series, and as brilliant as it is, it come with a but…….you have to read book 1 A Random Kill first. It’s not often I say a book can’t be read as a st…

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

A tough read in places, and my review comes with trigger warnings but Mercy Killing by Lisa Cutts is a great Police Procedural Thriller. Click the link below for my review ⬇️ nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/12/14/m...

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Mercy Killing. Lisa Cutts

A good story but it comes with a warning. The story centres around victims of child abuse, and although there is no gratuitous scenes, it is alluded to strongly, and may act as triggers to anybody …

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Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Silent Watcher by Victor Methos is one of my best reads this year. A new author to me, and one I’ve now added to my Must Read list. My review is in the link ⬇️ touch the image of the books cover. nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/12/01/t... @vmethos.bsky.social

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The Silent Watcher. Victor Methos

The crimes, two horrendously bloody murder scenes several years apart, the latest in Las Vegas close to the city. The detective, Lazarus Holloway. He was part of the first investigation and he neve…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Just found my new John Grisham. Robert Dugoni has written a cracking courtroom thriller in Her Deadly Game. So good I’ve downloaded the other two books in the series and I’m binge reading them. Review in the link below #booksky #bookreview #mustread nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/11/19/h...

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Her Deadly Game. Robert Dugoni

It’s inevitable that every American, legal, courtroom, thriller , I read gets measured against John Grisham. Few get an equal billing but this book is right up there with any of his. Keera Duggan i…

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

#Booksky Hi everybody. I’m new to Bluesky. I’m an avid reader based in the U.K. that posts blogs about the books I read. Only positive reviews as I know we all have different tastes. Mainly Crime fiction, some true crime and a bit of science fantasy. Link to my blog below⬇️ nigeladamsbookworm.com

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I've had my nose in a book since I was about 10, thats 50 years. Its about time I shared what I like, or don't like.

Nigel Adams Bookworm @nigeladamsbookworm.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

My first post on Bluesky. A great true crime book. Click the link below for my review nigeladamsbookworm.com/2024/10/30/e...

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Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher. Max Allan Collins. A. Brad Schwartz

An impulse buy on a quick trip to Waterstones ended up with me reading this true crime book which reads like a crime novel The subtitle on the cover, Hunting a serial killer at the dawn of modern c…