Reviews 

Another fast paced thriller in the Katie Maguire series. These are maybe a bit repetitive, but they really are fast paced, often gruesome...

Another very good story. The technique, which works well, is to blend three or four bits of criminality into the plot – in this case a...

This guy is very good. The books are full of very graphic violence, but are extremely well plotted and the central figure Kate Maguire is...

Never heard of the author, just grabbed this from the library to read over the bank holiday week-end. And it is really good, probably one...

I have read this before, I think many years ago and it is very good. Full of quite graphic sex, but a lot better than Shades of Grey. The...

Don’t know where this came from, possibly one of my Dad’s? Don’t think I have read it, or any of her (many) books before. About a female...

I like Denise Mina, with her weird punk hair, and enjoyed her on the TV recently with Frank Skinner on Boswell & Johnson’s tour of...

Not too sure why P bought this for me. I am a huge fan of Steve Martin’s early films – ‘Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid’ is probably my...

This was very good, a debut novel by an Indian brought up in Scotland about Calcutta just after the 1st world war. The central character...

A real curate’s egg, if that is the right expression. Half (or less page wise) is set in France in 1916 and reminded me a lot of...

The first in this series and thematically similar, a beautiful woman throws herself into Rawlins' arms/bed. She is also caught up in...

The 4th (?) in the Easy Rawlins series; I have no memory of reading this before. These books are OK, a black working class central...

A strange and difficult book. An anonymous narrator travels the world and does (or doesn’t) have one night stands with strangers she...

Have read this before, and it is a lot more fun than no 735. The family drama is very good, and both Maureen and Leslie are good, strong...

Haven’t read any of her more recent books; this is quite unlike the (as I remember it) rather gritty working class realism of her early...

Heard about this guy on Radio 4’s ‘A Good Read’. Apparently quite a well known writer, has written loads, Nobel Prize listed, but I, like...

I have enjoyed a couple of McBain’s recently, but not this one. The main plot (about the murder of both a baby and her child minder) was...

Certainly non -fiction book of the year so far. I disliked it at first as I thought that he was writing from a right wing perspective, a...

One of Paddy’s – this pretty good. Sounds a bit Dorothy Sayers from the title and not that dissimilar in certain ways. Nine (perfect...

I enjoyed this less and less as it progressed, and found the ending completely incomprehensible as the plot unravelled. It starts off...