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Criminal Poetry: Crhyme Time by F.E. Birch #BookReview

  A collection of 86 Poems, all with an element of crime containing themes about the things people do to each other. Most have dark themes and some right at the grimmest edge of crime fiction. There's nothing cosy in those poems! Written between 2004 - 2025 they contain fiction, fact, and blurring of all things dark and disturbing. Criminal Poetry in the rawest form, or no form at all, just words in a book about people, emotions, flashes of rage and anger, passion and beyond. Not for the faint of heart or those with experiences that might be triggering, and if you’re looking for love, rather than crime. It's only the ridiculous, bizarre and sublime that loiters inside. I don't read anywhere near as much poetry as I used to but as a crime fiction lover, I was intrigued by this collection from F.E. Birch. As a former police officer, F.E. Birch will have seen the best and worst of humanity and she pours that knowledge into her poems. Some readers, especially those who have exp...

Snowblind (tr. by Quentin Bates) 10th Anniversary and Fadeout (tr. by Larissa Kyzer) by Ragnar Jónasson #BookReview #BlogTour

Black as Death by Lilja Sigurdardóttir (tr. by Lorenza Garcia) #BookReview #BlogTour

No Safe Place to Hide by Murray Bailey #BookReview #BlogTour

The Protocols of Spying by Merle Nygate #BookReview #BlogTour

My Girl by Jack Jordan #BookReview #Blogathon

Never Tear Us Apart by Rowan Coleman #BookReview #BlogTour

The Caller by Chris Carter #BookReview #Blogathon

The Waterfall by Gareth Rubin #BookReview #BlogTour

The Howling by Michael J. Malone #BookReview #BlogTour

Deadman's Pool by Kate Rhodes #BookReview #Extract #BlogTour