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May 7, 20221 min read
974. Anthony Horowitz - The Sentence is Death
This is very good. Horowitz fictionalises himself as the writer of Foyles War who also acts as DR Watson to a fictionalised ex-CID...
Mar 26, 20221 min read
960. Reginald Hill - A Killing Kindness
I read these as fillers, but this one (which I have read before) is really good. A succession of apparently unmotivated murders of young...
Mar 24, 20221 min read
959. Stacey Hills - Mrs England
Not exactly chick-lit, but certainly a girl’s book. About a Norland Nanny, early in the 20th century who is seconded to a family in...
Mar 14, 20221 min read
956. Judith Hunter - The Story Of Slough
A bit of local history, for a change. Not a brilliant or particularly well written, book, but I didn’t really know that Slough in an...
Jan 28, 20221 min read
940. Robert Harris - V2
Quite a well known author, but I am not sure I have read much (if any) before. This is a bit of historical fiction, about the V2 rocket...
Jan 1, 20221 min read
929. Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
Read this may years ago, when it first came out. Overlong and should have been edited down, and the plot also over complicated. But...
Dec 25, 20211 min read
927. Mick Herron - Joe Country
My favourite author in this genre, so unsurprisingly I have read this before. This is the one where Louisa Guy is contacted by the...
Dec 23, 20211 min read
926. Reginald Hill - Exit Lines
Along with Ed McBain, Hill is my standby author for ‘going to bed about to finish a book and need something else to start’ as happened on...
Oct 15, 20211 min read
907. Anthony Horowitz - A Line To Kill
Horowitz is a very clever writer and this is a clever book. It features a pastiche of Horowitz himself as Dr Watson to Hawthorne’s...
Oct 5, 20211 min read
902. Reginald Hill - Pictures Of Perfection
I like Reginald Hill, but his later books do veer into a level of obscurity that I don’t enjoy. If so, this must be a mid-period book, a...
Sep 1, 20211 min read
890. Reginald Hill - Recalled To Life
This is a rollicking good yarn; set initially in the 1960’s around the time of the Profumo scandal involving a murder set in Yorkshire...
Aug 27, 20211 min read
888. Patricia Highsmith - Strangers On A Train
I expected the plot and characters to be more symmetrical, but the two characters who meet on the train and plot parallel murders – Guy,...
Aug 11, 20211 min read
883. Nick Hornby - Just Like You
Quite enjoyed this. A romance between a 40 year old white woman, divorced with two kids, and a 20+ old black man, who works in the local...
Aug 6, 20211 min read
882. Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms
I enjoyed this more than I expected. I can’t see anything special about his prose style. But I enjoyed this as a novel about an American...
Jul 14, 20211 min read
877. Michael Holding - Why We Kneel, How We Rise
Holding was a West Indian fast bowler in the 70’s & 80’s, now a cricket commentator. This is extraordinary, written out of years of...
Jul 11, 20211 min read
876. Tami Hoag - The Boy
Never read any before, but she is obviously a well established author. Despite a slow start, I thought this was very good. Set in the...
Jun 9, 20211 min read
866. Mick Herron - London Rules
I think this is the title. It is the one that begins with a massacre, cunningly written so that I assumed set in Africa until the last...
Apr 23, 20211 min read
857. Reginald Hill - Child's Play
Thought I would go for something a bit lighter. Had read this before and possibly seen it on the TV, many years ago. It is the one in...
Feb 10, 20211 min read
847. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Haven’t been reading as much (or as quickly) due to a lockdown related recent obsession with jigsaws. Have just nearly completed one 1000...
Oct 13, 20201 min read
820. Charlotte Hobson - The Vanishing Futurist
I found this hard going; it was dramatised on Radio 4 but maybe their adaptation was better than the book. About an English governess who...