Reviews 

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...

Another very good one, starting with two mysterious deaths, a young girl found dead in an abandoned car, and an elderly (obviously...

And another. This is much more typical, with a parallel plot involving the murder of a disturbed teenager in Eastvale (largely Annie) and...

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...

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....

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...

Thought I would read a more recent one. This is structured around two fictionalisations of real-life events: Saville and historic abuse...

Enjoyed the last one enough to read another. This is brilliant and I think probably one of the best. A family tragedy, involving...

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...

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...

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...

Hard work, but good. Subtitled ‘A true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland’, this is a very selective history of the troubles...

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...

Another Ian Rankin for Edinburgh, although finished this back home. The mid-phase books are a bit similar; this one features mainly...

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...

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...

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...

Second read recently, this time for the book group. Enjoyed it, but it remains a very difficult book, found both the characters and the...

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...

I can’t pretend to have enjoyed this, although the high octane plot kept me reading, despite misgivings. A police procedural (poorly...