Madeleine

The Long Hot Summer - The Style Council

Here I go again - Whitesnake

Come back and stay - Paul Young

"Serpent's Point" by Kate Ellis - this is the 26th novel in the Devon based Wesley Peterson series, and this time Wesley and his team are investigating the murder of a woman on a coastal path near the area in the book's title, which is a house, where a Regency-set film is being made. The house is also home to a small artist's colony, so there are lots of potential suspects and witnesses. But it looks like the murder could be linked to a couple of cold cases and disappearances in other parts on the country,as the victim seemed to be conducting her own investigation, following the murder of one of her best friends a few years ago. We also get some of the history of Serpent's Point, when two schoolgirls with metal detectors uncover a hoard of Roman coins and other artefacts, which brings in Wesley's best friend Neil, an archaeologist whose investigations always cross over with the more modern police storyline, especially when a relatively recent skeleton is discovered at the site, although it's soon dated to be about 100 years old, but this gives us the parallel story of another archaeological dig which took place a century ago. As the police continue unearthing clues to their current murder, another woman disappears and they realise they are in a race against time. I did actually suspect who the killer was fairly early on, but there's a later twist which gives this case a suitably serpentine feeling. Another easy read, possibly two many coincidences but it's fiction after all! 7.5/10

House of the Rising sun - The Animals

Burning down the house - Talking Heads

Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil

This old House - Rosemary Clooney/Shakin' Stevens

Ooh still haven't read that one!

Good Times - Chic

Still trying to decide on mine, possible the current Barbara Erskine book "The Dream Weavers". I've now decided on my choice, it's "The Mermaid's Call" by Katherine Stansfield.

Woman in chains - Tears for Fears

I used to read quite a lot of Nicci French but they got a bit samey after a while ie woman in peril, and the police were always useless so she has to do everything for herself, including, naturally, going alone to an empty house/factory etc,so I lost interest in them.

Time Clock of the Heart - Culture club

clocks - Coldplay