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Jul 22, 20231 min read
1080. Janice Hallett - Alperton Angels
This is brilliant. The full title is ‘The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels’ and it is brilliantly plotted. Like no.1072 (and little...
Jun 24, 20231 min read
1075. Dorothy B Hughes - The Expendable Man
Published in the mid -1950s, this is very different. Re-published by a UK imprint called Persephone Books (to which P subscribes) it is...
May 26, 20231 min read
1070. Joanne Harris - Broken Light
Strange and difficult, although paradoxically easy to read. Fiercely and angrily feminist, it centres on Bernie Moon, a menopausal woman...
Apr 3, 20231 min read
1055. Anthony Horowitz - Moriarty
Horowitz is a very good writer and this is a very good book. A fictionalised (well obviously, the whole thing is fiction) reconstruction...
Jan 18, 20231 min read
1042. Mick Herron - London Rules
More and for the same reason. This is the one that starts (and ends) with a terrorist attack on a Derbyshire village, via leak by Roddy...
Jan 13, 20231 min read
1041. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Can’t remember the titles of all these books (particularly if read on a kindle), but this is the one that starts with Catherine Standish’...
Nov 28, 20221 min read
1033. Mick Herron - Nobody Walks
Have read this before (no.587), but was told by someone in my book group that it is new, but it is not – republished in a new imprint in...
Nov 9, 20221 min read
1028. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
The first of the Slough House books, which I have read before. Theme is the Pakistani kidnapped, apparently, by the BNP and threatened...
Oct 17, 20221 min read
1022. Antoni Horowitz - With A Mind To Kill
I like Horowitz, but this is no.3 of a series of post Ian Fleming James Bond novels. The last Ian Fleming I read must have been about 50...
Sep 21, 20221 min read
1014. Mick Herron - Spook Street
So nice to read a book with a coherent narrative plot, after struggling with Joyce. Have read this before, it is the one where River goes...
Aug 3, 20221 min read
1001. Janice Hallett - The Appeal
This, her first book, was brilliant but far too long I thought. The first three quarters is largely a set of email exchanges between...
Jul 19, 20221 min read
997. Mick Herron - Bad Actors
Worth a re-read, but not much to add to no.995 above. Still very good. Get this on Amazon
Jul 9, 20221 min read
995. Mick Herron - Bad Actors
This is brilliant. After an uncharacteristically slow start (with the slow horses being lined up and introducing themselves partly with...
Jun 29, 20221 min read
993. Janice Hallett - The Twyford Code
Read this again in anticipation of the book group meeting, which was subsequently cancelled due to covid. It is a very good but very...
Jun 24, 20221 min read
992. Reginald Hill - An Advancement Of Learning
I have read this before, and it is interesting about the early relationships between Dalziel & Pascoe, and Pascow & Ellie, not yet...
Jun 9, 20221 min read
988. Mick Herron - Dolphin Junction
Variety of short stories, mostly undistinguished apart from a brilliant Slough House one involving Lamb and the lady in the wheelchair,...
May 27, 20221 min read
982. Anthony Horowitz - The Word Is Murder
Possibly the first of the Hawthorne/Horowitz stories, and this one at least had a more coherent plot certainly than no.977, where I don’t...
May 19, 20221 min read
979. Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders
This is incredibly clever, although I think a sequel to Magpie Murders, which is written with the same conceit. You get two books for the...
May 14, 20221 min read
978. Janice Hallett - The Twyford Code
Very good, quite difficult, and very different. Most of it is 200 audio files created by a dyslexic (I think?) and semi-literate ex-con...
May 12, 20221 min read
977. Anthony Horowitz - A Line To Kill
Have read this before and actually quite recently, but didn’t recognise it in the library, or indeed remember much of the plot second...