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Category: Fiction

Review: A Darker Domain

Review: A Darker Domain

Caves turn up regularly in crime fiction, and this time it’s Scotland’s turn to see some speleological literary action. Karen Pirie, the main character in several books by Val McDermid, is a Detective Inspector in charge of investigating cold cases in Fife, eastern Scotland. In A Darker Domain, she is presented with a tempting scenario…

Linda Wilson August 21, 22 Caving News, Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: Adventures Underground

Book Review: Adventures Underground

Following Alan Jefferys’ review of Concrete Evidence by Victor S Wigmore, Darkness Below heard from Jim Pennington who came across another novel by Wigmore. Jim now takes up the tale … Adventures Underground grabbed my attention in an Oxfam shop – it carried a politely salacious inscription: “To Marjorie, With many thanks for ‘services rendered’….

Linda Wilson March 20, 1 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Concrete Evidence – a curious manuscript

Concrete Evidence – a curious manuscript

Alan Jeffreys recently came across a curious manuscript entitled Concrete Evidence, a speleo novel by Victor Stephen Wignore and reviews it here for Darkness Below. Squirrelled away amongst the papers of Eli Simpson and the now defunct British Speleological Association is a typed, carbon copy manuscript on quarto paper of a ‘thriller’ amounting to some…

Alan L Jeffreys December 19, 30 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book review: Life Ruins

Book review: Life Ruins

A young woman is so savagely beaten that it’s impossible to work out her identity. Becca thinks she knows who the woman must be, but the police aren’t convinced by her claims. But someone is determined to silence her … Jared Godwin is addicted to caves and mines, as well as dark, secret places where…

Linda Wilson August 19, 8 Caving News, Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book review: Death Sentence

Book review: Death Sentence

Swildon’s Hole and a terminally bad experience in Sump 1 feature in our latest look at caving fiction. I’ve followed Damian Boyd’s West Country police series on and off over the years but managed to miss out on Death Sentence, which features caving as part of the plot, so I’m grateful to Bob Mehew for…

Linda Wilson July 19, 16 Caving News, Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews, Wessex Cave Club Read More...

Book review: The Cave

Book review: The Cave

Kate Mosse is better known for Labyrinth and other books, but Alan Jeffreys recommends taking a look at her novella, The Cave, set in the Pyrenees Quick Reads, as outlined on the publisher’s promotional blurb, are ‘bite-sized books by bestselling writers … for people who want a short, fast-paced read.’ Novellas by authors as diverse…

Alan L Jeffreys February 19, 17 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book review: Styx

Book review: Styx

As part of a new series on classic caving books, both fact and fiction, Linda Wilson reviews Styx, a 1982 adventure novel with a surprisingly up-to-date twist … Two Japanese geologists on a visit to the Yugoslavian karst stumble on the find of the century, a previously unknown cave containing a roof decorated with what…

Linda Wilson November 18, 15 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: The Anomaly

Book Review: The Anomaly

TV archaeologist Nolan Moore is in search of a mysterious cavern in the Grand Canyon, discovered in 1909 by Kincaid, a man who returned with fabulous tales of an immense cave, decorated in places with what he described as hieroglyphs which hint at a more ancient occupation of the Americas than has always been believed….

Linda Wilson October 18, 11 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: The Devil’s Dice

Book Review: The Devil’s Dice

Respectable patent lawyer Peter Hamilton is found dead at a spot known as The Devil’s Dice, a remote crag in the Peak District which houses a vast network of caves known as The Labyrinth, feared for their complexity and dark reputation. The caves, now gated, have long been known as a suicide spot. The legend…

Linda Wilson April 18, 11 Caving News, Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: The Chalk Pit

Book Review: The Chalk Pit

Elly Griffith’s latest outing for Norfolk archaeologist Dr Ruth Galloway, involves the chalk mines under Norwich, with which I have a certain amount of history even though I’ve never visited them. The combination of mining and archaeology promptly took The Chalk Pit to the top of the To Be Read pile. When a homeless woman…

Linda Wilson March 17, 21 Archaeology News, Caving News, Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: Daisy in Chains

Book Review: Daisy in Chains

Former doctor Hamish Wolfe is in prison, convicted of the murders of three young women and suspected of the murder of a fourth, and maybe more. The women all shared one characteristic. He is said to have preyed on overweight women and there are persistent rumours that this started as long ago as his days…

Linda Wilson February 17, 10 Deep Thought, Fiction, News Read More...

Book Review: The First Man by Xavier-Marie Bonnot

Book Review: The First Man by Xavier-Marie Bonnot

The mysterious and dangerous Le Guen’s Cave near Marseille claims another victim, an experienced diver who has been studying the Upper Palaeolithic paintings and engravings found ten years previously. The man gets into trouble resurfacing after a dive to a depth of 38 metres and has decompression problems. He’s not expected to survive for long….

Linda Wilson February 16, 9 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: Deep Shelter by Oliver Harris

Book Review: Deep Shelter by Oliver Harris

DC Nick Belsey is driven down into the miles of abandoned tunnels under the streets of London in search for a missing woman. As it was his fault she was there in the first place, his job will be on the line if that embarrassing fact comes out. Detective Constable Nick Belsey isn’t exactly a…

Linda Wilson December 15, 5 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: Prayer for the Dead by James Oswald

Book Review: Prayer for the Dead by James Oswald

DI Tony McLean struggles to find a link between a series of bizarre killings in Edinburgh. Prayer for the Dead, the fifth book in James Oswald’s series about Edinburgh detective, DI Tony McLean, a magnet both for trouble and weird happenings, gets off to a suitably creepy start beneath the streets and the tension continues…

Tony Brocklebank November 15, 20 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

Book Review: Last Words by Michael Korta

Book Review: Last Words by Michael Korta

Garrison in Southern Indiana is a town that’s harbouring quite a few secrets, as Mark Novak discovers to his cost when he’s sent to look into an exceedingly cold case. Mark Novak works as a private investigator for Innocence Inc., a firm that specialises in taking on death row cases on a pro bono basis…

Tony Brocklebank November 15, 18 Deep Thought, Fiction, News, Reviews Read More...

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