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Jan 28, 20231 min read
1045. Harkan Nesser - The Mind's Eye
There are good books to read in the run up to 31 January, fast-paced detective stories. Like no.1044, this is quite Freudian, featuring...
Jan 25, 20231 min read
1044. Hakan Nesser - The Strangler's Honeymoon
This is the first of his books that I ever read and it is very good – prompted me to buy lots more a few years ago. Beautifully written...
Jan 12, 20221 min read
933. Olivier Norek - Turf Wars
This is pretty low grade. From the writer of the French TV serial 'Spiral', which we enjoy. This is just violent turf wars and political...
Dec 1, 20211 min read
919. Håkan Nesser - The Lonely Ones
Best novel I have read for a while. Beautifully constructed and written. The plot covers a 35 year period from the mid 1970’s to the...
Oct 1, 20211 min read
901. Graham Norton - Home Stretch
I am inclined to an aversion for celebrity authors, but this is extremely good, and I’ll read his others. The plot begins with a young...
Jul 2, 20211 min read
874. David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow
Quite enjoyed this; had heard it on the radio a year or two ago. A first love story, loosely structured around 'Romeo and Juliet' which...
May 30, 20211 min read
863. Håkan Nesser - Intrigo
I have read a lot of the Inspector Van Veeteren books, but these were five stand alone novellas in which he doesn’t feature. Three have...
Sep 5, 20191 min read
710. David Nichols - Sweet Sorrow
Quite good. I had heard bits on the Radio 4 book of the week slot a month or so ago. A young, class-crossed love story set against the...
Jun 28, 20191 min read
692. Graham Norton - A Keeper
I had no idea this guys wrote books, as well as being a chat show host. I wouldn’t say this was very well written, but the plot was...
Mar 10, 20181 min read
576. V. S. Naipaul - A House For Mr Biswas
Another Susan Hill recommendation. I don’t think I will follow these anymore as our tastes don’t match at all. This is an early novel by...
Jun 9, 20171 min read
495. Juliet Nicolson - A House Full Of Daughters
Juliet Nicolson is the 4th generation of the Nicolson daughters; granddaughter of Vita Sackville West. Her great great grandmother was a...
Feb 12, 20171 min read
467. G. F. Newman - The Corrupted Part 2
Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...
Jan 31, 20171 min read
464. G F Newman - The Corrupted Part One
I think this guy is also a TV script-writer, but this was very good. Set in the East End post war, a bunch of working class on the...
Nov 5, 20161 min read
441. Patrick Neate - City Of Tiny Lights
Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...
May 7, 20161 min read
397. Håkan Nesser - The Living And The Dead In Winsford
Read this largely in the garden on a gloriously sunny Sunday. It is a very good mystery, I suppose, novel. A Swedish TV personality locks...
Jan 21, 20161 min read
371. Charity Norman - The New Woman
A library book via P, although probably a ‘woman’s book’, I loved this, beautifully written with a really well constructed plot – would...
Dec 23, 20151 min read
364. Hakån Nesser - The G File
I normally like this guy, but thought this was poor, particularly the first half where the plot was telegraphed from about ½ way through....
Apr 5, 20151 min read
295. Katharine Norbury - The Fish Ladder
I read the first half of this thinking it was a novel with a rather slow start. It is difficult to say what sort of book it is – lots of...
Oct 2, 20141 min read
251. Håkan Nesser - The Return
Read this intermittently; started it before no.249 and no.250 had the libraries imperative. I enjoy Nesser, but really van Veeteren is...
Sep 7, 20141 min read
242. Håkan Nesser - Hour Of The Wolf
Needed a proper novel, with a plot, after no.241. This has a great plot with apparently quite unrelated deaths (one not a murder) linked...