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Aug 25, 20131 min read
138. Peter Robinson - Children Of The Revolution
The new Inspector Banks, just published. The wonderful opening chapter (for me); Banks' anxiety about retirement plated out against...
Jul 26, 20131 min read
130. Peter Robinson - Watching The Dark
Have read this before but didn’t really enjoy it first time round. Better second time round, but not one of his best. A split plot set...
Jul 19, 20131 min read
128. Ian Rankin - Standing In Another Man's Grave
Haven’t read any Ian Rankin for ages, but revisited the library on a sunny day and found that Rebus had been resurrected. I am not...
Jun 20, 20131 min read
121. Peter Robinson - All The Colours Of Darkness
Wanted to re-read this as it is the one that precedes 'Bad Boy' and I had forgotten bits of the plot, which is 'Othello' transposed into...
Jun 20, 20131 min read
121. Peter Robinson - All The Colours Of Darkness
Wanted to re-read this as it precedes no.114 above and i had forgotten bits of the plot, which is Othello transposed into a gay...
Jun 8, 20131 min read
114. Peter Robinson - Bad Boy
Brilliant. Robinson is a bit like a velvet coat; you slip into his prose and feel immediately comfortable with the nuances. I think I...
Mar 28, 20131 min read
90. Peter Robinson - Before The Poison
I had read this before but asked D for it for my birthday last year. Enjoyed it less 2nd time round; Robinson seems a bit mannered (not...
Mar 18, 20131 min read
87. Jennie Rooney - Red Joan
Best holiday read so far. About an English girl who goes to Cambridge pre-WW2 and falls in love with a Russian émigré communist. She is...
Dec 19, 20121 min read
64. James Robertson - And The Land Lay Still
This was long and difficult. Much of it was excellent, although I found the lengthy middle section, narrated by a very alcoholic and...
Oct 12, 20121 min read
48. J.K. Rowling - The Casual Vacancy
Never read any Harry Potter, this is her first adult book. I thought it was very good: complex, multilayered and multi-class plot about...
Oct 5, 20121 min read
47. Peter Robinson - Watching The Dark
The latest. Good but not one of the best. Too many characters are absent. Banks in Tallinn investigating two (of course) closely related...
Sep 18, 20121 min read
43. Zane Radcliffe - London Irish
Never heard of this or the author. Comic story about the northern Irish in London just before the millennium. Boy meets girl, Prod meets...
Aug 19, 20121 min read
34. Peter Robinson - Past Reason Hated
This is the first Peter Robinson I ever read, not one of his best as the characters haven't matured, but a good story. I had forgotten...
Aug 3, 20121 min read
29. Peter Robinson - Dead Right
Another one that I had read before and completely forgotten the plot. Two gaps in my memory of the sequence filled: the breakup with...
Jul 16, 20121 min read
26. Peter Robinson - In A Dry Season
I had read this before and had always been a bit put off by the fact that (I think) Reginald Hill has written a book with a similar theme...
Jul 4, 20121 min read
24. Peter Robinson - Innocent Graves
Kindled this on the assumption that I had read it from the library, but I hadn't. A lot better than no.23) with some excellent plot...
Jun 29, 20121 min read
23. Peter Robinson - Wednesday's Child
Not one of his best (child abduction theme) but readable. quite an early book; he has improved with time/age. Get this from Waterstones
Jun 5, 20121 min read
13. Peter Robinson - The Hanging Valley
I loved this perhaps largely in contrast to no.12. Beautifully told 'classic' (dare one say it) English detective story, simple and...
May 12, 20121 min read
9. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was
Robinson is probably my favourite crime writer. I hadn't read this for ages and really enjoyed it. I don't know whether I like them so...