Reviews 

This is very good. Horowitz fictionalises himself as the writer of Foyles War who also acts as DR Watson to a fictionalised ex-CID...

I read these as fillers, but this one (which I have read before) is really good. A succession of apparently unmotivated murders of young...

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...

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...

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...

Read this may years ago, when it first came out. Overlong and should have been edited down, and the plot also over complicated. But...

My favourite author in this genre, so unsurprisingly I have read this before. This is the one where Louisa Guy is contacted by the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I expected the plot and characters to be more symmetrical, but the two characters who meet on the train and plot parallel murders – Guy,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Haven’t been reading as much (or as quickly) due to a lockdown related recent obsession with jigsaws. Have just nearly completed one 1000...

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...