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Apr 7, 20131 min read
96. Henning Mankell - One Step Behind
Trying to rush through another to hit no.100 by 7th April. This is a great book; it is the one about the postal worker who shoots three...
Dec 3, 20121 min read
62. Val McDermid - Killing The Shadows
I must have read this before in Crete (the bookmark gave it away) but could remember nothing about it. About a serial killer who targets...
Aug 13, 20121 min read
33. B.A. Morton - Mrs Jones
This is quite a good US cop thriller written, amazingly, by someone who must be someone's Gran and who lives in Northumbria. It has a...
Aug 9, 20121 min read
31. Sinclair Macleod - The Reluctant Detective
The first in a series of which no.30 above must be the second. The plot is a bit more obvious and the writing is not as good. But quite a...
Aug 4, 20121 min read
30. Sinclair Macleod - The Good Girl
'Caught' by Amazon's marketing, I paid £1.02 for this. It is actually quite good, writing isn't bad. Hero is a private eye type, normally...
Jun 13, 20121 min read
18. Henning Mankell - The Fifth Women
This is a very strange book; I had read it before. The difficulty I have is that the 'who done it side' is all about motive, which is...
Apr 21, 20121 min read
5. Richard Montanari - Don't Look Now
No connection with the film. A readable junk thriller (thought I'd go for a page-turner after the long and slightly hard work reads...