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May 8, 20131 min read
102. Mark Billingham - The Burning Girl
Still can't make up my mind about this guy; this was not a great book. Need to find another author! Get this on Amazon
Apr 23, 20131 min read
101. Mark Billingham -Scaredy Cat
The 2nd book. I can't get a clear fix on this guy - they're lurid, over violent, with a fairly unlikeable hero, but clever and well...
Apr 18, 20131 min read
99. Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead
Thought I would try another straight away; this is the first Tom Thorne book. I thought it was structurally a bit repetitive (ie of no.98...
Apr 13, 20131 min read
98. Mark Billingham - Lazybones
A new (to me) crime writer, but the reviews say 'Move over Morse, Rebus et al'; and for once I agree with no great hesitation. This guy...
Apr 10, 20131 min read
97. Heinrich Boll - The Lost Honour Of Katharina Blum
Very short, maybe a bit of a cheat. Had read it before, maybe 30+ years ago. Enigmatic, about a woman in Germany in the 1970's whose life...
Jan 1, 20131 min read
69. John Buchan - The Thirty-Nine Steps
Inspired by the chase around Scotland in no.68 ( and struggling a bit with no.70) I Kindled this for nothing. Never read it or any other...
Nov 18, 20121 min read
57. William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach
Had read this before, but having enjoyed Boyd recently, thought I would give it another try. It is readable, but one of those books I...
Oct 31, 20121 min read
52. William Boyd - Restless
This was brilliant. I had a weird and precise memory of having read the first chapter (only) before; maybe one of the publisher's bits of...
Oct 19, 20121 min read
50. William Boyd - Waiting For Sunrise
I loved this, although the ending defeated me slightly (can one be slightly defeated?). The characters were all so well delineated,...
Aug 24, 20121 min read
36. Lawrence Block - Out On The Cutting Edge
Haven't read one of his for ages. Block is a much better writer than many of the cheap and cheerful (?) detective novelists above. His PI...