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Jun 3, 20161 min read
407. T.R. Richmond - What She Left
Started this before we left on holiday, but it was a bit difficult, hence 406. Ultra-modern in technique – texts, emails, blog extracts,...
Jun 2, 20161 min read
406. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was
Great airport reading choice; I think one of Robinson’s best. About two dead adolescent boys – 30 years apart, one a schoolfriend of...
May 12, 20161 min read
398. Philip Rosenberg - Tygers Of Wrath
Another attic book. Started this before no.395 as it and the next three were all library books. This was OK, but had a very slow start. A...
Apr 12, 20161 min read
392. Simon Raven - Fielding Gray
These are pretty good; read most of the series may years ago and this is no.1. Very public school, post Evelyn Waugh but well written,...
Feb 13, 20161 min read
377. Peter Robinson - No Cure For Love
It looks as if Robinson has been moonlighting on the other side of the Atlantic; writing this (I assume) for a US audience as it was...
Nov 17, 20151 min read
355. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
I enjoyed this, particularly the element focussing on the refugee crisis, with added topicality today, 10 years after publication. The...
Aug 21, 20151 min read
331. Ian Rankin - The Naming Of The Dead
Odd experience, as I expected this to be a re-read, but it must have sat, unread, on my book case for years. Siobhan’s parents have never...
Apr 21, 20151 min read
299. Tom Rob Smith - Child 44
I didn’t think much of this. A crime thriller of sorts set in Stalinist and post-Stalinist USSR. The problem I had with it is that...
Mar 7, 20151 min read
287. Peter Robinson - Abattoir Blues
The latest. I loved the expansiveness of the opening; apart from a stolen tractor and some blood in a disused aircraft hangar, there...
Feb 27, 20151 min read
285. Ian Rankin - Tooth And Nail
Need something easy to read so picked an early Ian Rankin, which I didn’t remember. Rebus is seconded to London, to help the Met out on a...
Jan 25, 20151 min read
278. Ian Rankin - Dead Souls
I am enjoying Rankin more and more second time around; when I first read his books something didn’t gel for me, but it seems to now,...
Aug 12, 20141 min read
234. Ian Rankin - Saints Of The Shadow Bible
Our local library is I am sure struggling to survive, so I went in to give it a bit of support. Few decent books though! Anyway another...
Jul 31, 20141 min read
230. Ian Rankin - Exit Music
The last, I think, or intended last, Rebus. I found this structurally very similar to no.228 initially, with Russian money playing the...
Jul 17, 20141 min read
228. Ian Rankin - Set In Darkness
Very good – I have really enjoyed Ian Rankin over the last couple of years; odd because I never used to. Perhaps it was the alcohol. By...
Jun 12, 20141 min read
218. Peter Robinson - Innocent Graves
Need a quick detective novel after the marathon of no.217... Have read this before but forgotten the middle section where the wrong guy...
May 27, 20141 min read
212. Ian Rankin -The Falls
Needed a bit of a detective, after all that rather literary stuff. I have come to enjoy Ian Rankin rather more second time round,...
Mar 23, 20141 min read
190. Ian Rankin - The Black Book
Felt as if I had read this quite recently; could index this document somehow. Never really been able to make up my mind about Rebus — I...
Oct 9, 20131 min read
153. Peter Robinson - Playing With Fire
L was reminded of this when I read 'Strange Affair' (no.148) recently. It was the first in the poorly televised series, but it is not...
Sep 27, 20131 min read
148. Peter Robinson - Strange Affair
Brilliant. This is the one where his brother is murdered; I have read it before but many years ago. I think there is a ‘middle period’...
Sep 19, 20131 min read
145. Ian Rankin - Tooth And Nail
Another Rebus. I never used to enjoy these, but no.128 rekindled my interest. Rebus is sent to London to help investigate a serial...