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Oct 4, 20231 min read
1097. Peter Robinson - Bad Boy
This one follows no.1096, I think, and involves Banks’ daughter Tracy who gets involved with a ‘Bad Boy’. The early bit of the book is...
Sep 26, 20231 min read
1096. Peter Robinson - Careless Love
Another very good one, starting with two mysterious deaths, a young girl found dead in an abandoned car, and an elderly (obviously...
Sep 22, 20231 min read
1095. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was
And another. This is much more typical, with a parallel plot involving the murder of a disturbed teenager in Eastvale (largely Annie) and...
Sep 17, 20231 min read
1094. Peter Robinson - Aftermath
The Robinson/Banks fest continues, this is the one before no.1093, so reading them in reverse order! This is different from many of the...
Sep 10, 20231 min read
1093. Peter Robinson - Friend Of The Devil
A bit of a Peter Robinson fest at the moment, but I do enjoy his books a lot more than most, so chose another when I have finished one....
Sep 8, 20231 min read
1092. Peter Robinson - Children Of The Revolution
The one in which a lonely no-hoper has been pushed off a bridge near his house and begins with Banks walking along the (disused, post...
Aug 31, 20231 min read
1090. Peter Robinson - When The Music’s Over
Thought I would read a more recent one. This is structured around two fictionalisations of real-life events: Saville and historic abuse...
Aug 27, 20231 min read
1089. Peter Robinson - Cold Is The Grave
Enjoyed the last one enough to read another. This is brilliant and I think probably one of the best. A family tragedy, involving...
Aug 25, 20231 min read
1088. Peter Robinson - Playing With Fire
I really do enjoy these books. This is a relatively early (2004) one that I have read before and has been on TV, starting with a fire on...
Aug 10, 20231 min read
1085. Peter Robinson - Watching The Dark
I have read this before but was possibly binge-reading Robinson at the time and enjoyed it a lot more this time. This one begins in north...
May 19, 20231 min read
1066. Ian Rankin - A Heart Full Of Headstones
Framed, in an opening and final chapter by Rebus, on trial for murder. The middle of the book is a typical Rebus story (he is now...
May 9, 20231 min read
1064. Patrick Radden - Keefe Say Nothing
Hard work, but good. Subtitled ‘A true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland’, this is a very selective history of the troubles...
Apr 24, 20231 min read
1060. Katherine Rundell - Super-Infinite
Another Edinburgh book, which P purchased. An artistic biography of John Donne. Seems to have been much lauded, but I am not a huge fan...
Apr 21, 20231 min read
1059. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
Another Ian Rankin for Edinburgh, although finished this back home. The mid-phase books are a bit similar; this one features mainly...
Apr 13, 20231 min read
1057. Ian Rankin - Dead Soul
Very good to read Ian Rankin in Edinburgh, where we now are, as the books are so heavily located here and you can follow the plot...
Mar 1, 20231 min read
1049. Peter Robinson - A Dedicated Man
An early Inspector Banks book and a very good, if slightly old fashioned detective novel. A body is found in a field in the North...
Sep 1, 20221 min read
1009. Monique Roffey - The Mermaid Of Black Conch
Had a strange experience reading this; was convinced at points that I had read it before, yet other bits were unfamiliar. P and I finally...
Aug 23, 20221 min read
1006. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Second read recently, this time for the book group. Enjoyed it, but it remains a very difficult book, found both the characters and the...
Jun 5, 20221 min read
986. Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Good to read a serious book, after a recent diet of (too much) crime. I had never heard of this but it is extraordinary. Jean Rhys was...
May 2, 20221 min read
971. LJ Ross - High Force
I can’t pretend to have enjoyed this, although the high octane plot kept me reading, despite misgivings. A police procedural (poorly...