Infinite Books

A blog about my adventures in reading…

Book reviews

  • “The Word is Murder” by Anthony Horowitz

    After enjoying “Magpie Murders,” I decided I’d like to read more mysteries by Anthony Horowitz. So I came to another one, “The Word is Murder,” the first one in the “Hawthorne and Horowitz” series, and I wasn’t disappointed! Daniel Hawthorne, a former Detective Inspector, approaches Anthony Horowitz, the author of “The Word is Murder,” with

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  • “Klara and the Sun” by Kazuo Ishiguro

    A lot of research has been done on people’s responses to robots. In a nutshell, it comes to the fact that the more a robot resembles a person, especially a child but also a friendly-looking animal, the more we tend to feel empathy towards the machine, particularly when we see it in distress. Remember Data from

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  • “Devil’s Delight” by M.C. Beaton and R.W. Green

    Agatha Raisin is a free-spirited and elegant woman in her 50ties who runs a private detective agency in the Cotswolds village of Carsely. She is on a new case, and this time the case literally bumped into her. While driving with her assistant Toni to a wedding, a naked man suddenly dashed in front of

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