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Jul 23, 20141 min read
229. Håkan Nesser - The Mind's Eye
The 2nd Van Veeteren book and better and different from some of the later ones. Here we do have more of a Sherlock Holmes type of mystery...
Jun 24, 20141 min read
224. Håkan Nesser - Woman With Birthmark
Maybe it is an unfortunate coincidence, but this is just too similar to 'Borkmann’s Point'. Again a killer on an apparently random...
Jun 21, 20141 min read
223. Håkan Nesser - Borkmann's Point
The last of the Nesser’s that I had taken on holiday. This one features Van Veetern pre-retirement, although called from holiday to...
Jun 7, 20141 min read
216. Håkan Nesser - The Weeping Girl
Brilliant. Nesser is really good. This story features Eva Moreno, his only female detective, a sexier version of Siobhan Clarke in Rebus,...
Jun 5, 20141 min read
214. Håkan Nesser - The Unlucky Lottery
Inauspicious start, but then read en route to Spain in overnight hotel, then delayed in Gatwick, half asleep on plane and finished in...
Jun 1, 20141 min read
213. Håkan Nesser - The Strangler's Honeymoon
This is the only thing I lost in the crash – a writer I had never heard of before, but branded in some marketing quarters as ‘the...
Feb 23, 20141 min read
185. Mike Nicol - Of Cops & Robbers
Heard the author interviewed on the radio and he sounded like a nice guy. White (I assume) South African crime writer. You need to follow...
Jun 8, 20121 min read
16. David Nicholls - One Day
Holiday book swap with P. Didn't like this at first but it grew on me. One day is Whitsun day annually and it covers the fortunes of a...
Jun 4, 20121 min read
12. Jo Nesbo - The Leopard
Airplane reading en route for Spain. Not a lot shorter than George Eliot, except on quality. Nesbo seems to be billed as the next Steig...
Apr 11, 20121 min read
2. Jo Nesbo - The Snowman
Billed as the next Steig Larsson. Not sure about this. Very long complex plot, set in Norway. Bit of a chiller really, and hence not my...