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Sep 13, 20211 min read
894. Graham Masterson - Buried
Another fast paced thriller in the Katie Maguire series. These are maybe a bit repetitive, but they really are fast paced, often gruesome...
Sep 8, 20211 min read
892. Graham Masterson - Dead Girls Dancing
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...
Sep 4, 20211 min read
891. Graham Masterson - Blood Sisters
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...
Aug 29, 20211 min read
889. Graham Masterson - The Last Drop Of Blood
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...
Feb 4, 20211 min read
846. Susanna Moore - In The Cut
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...
Jan 31, 20211 min read
845. Marcia Muller - Pennies On A Dead Woman's Eyes
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...
Nov 28, 20201 min read
830. Denise Mina - The Less Dead
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...
Nov 12, 20201 min read
826. Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
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...
Aug 20, 20201 min read
808. Abir Mukherjee - A Rising Man
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...
Jul 24, 20201 min read
801. Jojo Moyes - The Girl You Left Behind
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...
Jul 18, 20201 min read
800. Walter Mosley - Devil In A Blue Dress
The first in this series and thematically similar, a beautiful woman throws herself into Rawlins' arms/bed. She is also caught up in...
Jul 17, 20201 min read
799. Walter Mosley - A Little Yellow Dog
The 4th (?) in the Easy Rawlins series; I have no memory of reading this before. These books are OK, a black working class central...
Feb 8, 20201 min read
749. Eimear McBride - Strange Hotel
A strange and difficult book. An anonymous narrator travels the world and does (or doesn’t) have one night stands with strangers she...
Dec 19, 20191 min read
736. Denise Mina - Garnethill
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...
Dec 2, 20191 min read
733. Denise Mina - Conviction
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...
Nov 21, 20191 min read
731. Patrick Modiano - The Black Notebook
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...
Oct 4, 20191 min read
718. Ed McBain - Lullaby
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...
Aug 25, 20191 min read
705. Douglas Murray - The Strange Death Of Europe
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...
Aug 10, 20191 min read
703. Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers
One of Paddy’s – this pretty good. Sounds a bit Dorothy Sayers from the title and not that dissimilar in certain ways. Nine (perfect...
Jul 26, 20191 min read
699. Walter Mosley - Devil In A Blue Dress
I enjoyed this less and less as it progressed, and found the ending completely incomprehensible as the plot unravelled. It starts off...