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May 5, 20231 min read
1063. R J Ellory - The Darkest Season
I like Ellory, but he seems to be obsessed with the murder of teenage girls (see no.1054). This approaches the same issue from a...
Nov 13, 20161 min read
444. Charles Cumming - The Hidden Man
The third of the three I bought with the birthday tokens and by far the best. The key point is that this is a good novel, with the spy...
Oct 16, 20151 min read
345. Elizabeth Strout - The Burgess Boys
P enjoyed this, but I didn’t much. You can tell it is a ‘good quality’ novel, but I just didn’t warm to it. The Burgess' are a couple of...
Jun 15, 20141 min read
221. Jonathan Kellerman - True Detectives
Truly awful, but I needed a bit of a light read and found this in the villa. Kellerman is the worst type of US psycho-crime babble...
May 15, 20141 min read
207. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews
Never read any Fielding. This was actually quite fun; a take on ‘Pamela’ (Joseph is her disappeared brother). A big rumbustious (is that...
Jul 13, 20131 min read
127. Arnaldur Indridason - Voices
Have read this before but wanted to re-read it. It introduces Erlendur and explicates more of his family history than some of the other...
Feb 12, 20131 min read
78. Arnaldur Indridason - Voices
Much better than no.76, more like no.75. This guy is quite good; original plotting, three quite interesting cops, especially Erlendur,...
Feb 2, 20131 min read
76. Arnaldur Indridason - Arctic Chill
Sounds a bit like a frozen pudding. Elinborg has become a minor character in this one, her boss Erlendur is the major one. He is a rather...