Madeleine

The TV adaptation of the first in C J Sansom's novels starts streaming on Disney + (UK) next Wednesday, 1st May, called "Shardlake".

Loreena McKennitt - Canadian singer/songwriter, probably more in the folk genre, I first heard of her during a walk in Scotland back in 2013, when a member of the group played us her version of "The Highwayman", in the middle of a wood somewhere. Very haunting, she's also set "The Lady of Shalott" to music which is worth a listen.

Red Light Spells Danger - Billy Ocean

Not that many, mainly the Sookie Stackhouse books (comfort reads, especially the first four), Daphne du Maurier, classics, Andrew Taylor's "The American Boy", Lynn Shepherds's "Tom All-Alone's" aka The Solitary House, maybe a few others, but lots of keepers as well!

Little Red Corvette - Prince

I'm just reading the 3rd book "Destroying Angel". I was in a bookshop today and saw her new one, "The Winter List" out in paperback.

Sweet child o' mine - Guns n Roses

I have a Dream - Abba

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