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Jun 2, 20201 min read
786. Sara Paretsky - Indemnity Only
Haven’t read any of these for years. V.I. Warshawski is a feminist updated Philip Marlow PI, with much of the same personal ambience, run...
May 31, 20201 min read
785. Leonardo Padura - Havana Blue
I do like these books, although they take a bit of getting into, but are easier 2nd time round. This one features the downfall of a top,...
Apr 2, 20201 min read
762. Leonardo Padura - Havana Red
Totally different from 760 above, unless I have misunderstood 760. This is quite a serious and challenging book, about a father murdering...
Mar 29, 20201 min read
760. Leonardo Padura - Havana Gold
Felt like trying one of these again. The central figure (the Count, Conde, he seems to go by various names) despite being a policeman in...
Mar 17, 20201 min read
755. Jodi Picoult - Small Great Things
Another recommendation from Paddy. This was very good, but maybe a bit thematic for a novel. Three main characters through whom the story...
Nov 17, 20191 min read
729. Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
I enjoyed this more than 1st time round, many years ago. It is really just a rollicking good yarn, aimed I think at kids and the book is...
Jul 12, 20191 min read
695. Louise Penny - Kingdom Of The Blind
These books are (becoming, for me) a bit repetitive. This (I think) is no.14 and I have missed 13, so bits of plot. The Three Pines...
Jan 27, 20181 min read
569. Louise Penny - Still Life
I think this is the 3rd time I have read this, the first book in the series. Finished 568 above, couldn’t sleep and needed a kindle book...
Sep 19, 20171 min read
525. Louise Penny - Glass Houses
I loved this, but she is a much better writer about the complex personal interactions within Three Pines than she is when she tries to...
Jun 18, 20171 min read
501. Louise Penny - The Long Way Home
The one about Clara’s search for her missing husband Peter; I was slightly racing through re–reads towards the end of the holiday, should...
Jan 7, 20171 min read
459. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
This is the one about the super gun that the kid finds in the woods, and not, I think, one of her best. The gun is just a bit improbable,...
Jan 1, 20171 min read
458. Louise Penny - How The Light Gets In
This (which I have also read before) is as good as 457, although with only 2 plot lines. The story of the amazing quins and Continuation...
Dec 30, 20161 min read
457. Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead
I have read this before (no 372), but it is far better on a 2nd reading. There are three plot lines: The murder of the archaeologist...
Oct 25, 20161 min read
439. Louise Penny - A Great Reckoning
This is also very good; rooted in Three Pines (to which Gamache and his wife have now moved), as all her best books are. Gamache has now...
Oct 16, 20161 min read
438. Louise Penny - A Brutal Telling
This is one of the best, and also in a way most difficult of the books. It is the one I accidentally deleted from my kindle in Spain...
Jul 19, 20161 min read
419. Louise Penny - The Hangman
A short story that I found (and bought) late last night having finished no.418. This was very paired down Penny, although set in Three...
Jul 18, 20161 min read
418. Louise Penny - A Trick Of Light
Back to a bit of familiarity (no.373 again), although I have somehow accidentally deleted the Louise Penny I want to read from my kindle....
Jun 14, 20161 min read
412. Louise Penny - The Cruelest Month
Running low on books, but this was worth a re-read. The one about the séance in the old Hadley house in Three Pines. Having read it...
Mar 23, 20161 min read
386. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
The 10th and most recently published in the series. I liked the beginning more, when it was firmly rooted in Three Pines. A child...
Mar 12, 20161 min read
384. Louise Penny - The Long Way Home
Book of the year so far. For me, this was like the conclusion of the Gamache series; it helps to have read most of the others to pick up...