Reviews 

This is brilliant. The full title is ‘The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels’ and it is brilliantly plotted. Like no.1072 (and little...

Published in the mid -1950s, this is very different. Re-published by a UK imprint called Persephone Books (to which P subscribes) it is...

Strange and difficult, although paradoxically easy to read. Fiercely and angrily feminist, it centres on Bernie Moon, a menopausal woman...

Horowitz is a very good writer and this is a very good book. A fictionalised (well obviously, the whole thing is fiction) reconstruction...

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...

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’...

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...

The first of the Slough House books, which I have read before. Theme is the Pakistani kidnapped, apparently, by the BNP and threatened...

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...

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...

This, her first book, was brilliant but far too long I thought. The first three quarters is largely a set of email exchanges between...

Worth a re-read, but not much to add to no.995 above. Still very good. Get this on Amazon

This is brilliant. After an uncharacteristically slow start (with the slow horses being lined up and introducing themselves partly with...

Read this again in anticipation of the book group meeting, which was subsequently cancelled due to covid. It is a very good but very...

I have read this before, and it is interesting about the early relationships between Dalziel & Pascoe, and Pascow & Ellie, not yet...

Variety of short stories, mostly undistinguished apart from a brilliant Slough House one involving Lamb and the lady in the wheelchair,...

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...

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...

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...

Have read this before and actually quite recently, but didn’t recognise it in the library, or indeed remember much of the plot second...