Reviews 

Recommended by Eve, our librarian. Crime meets archaeology. The crime is a plus for me, the archaeology less so. Ruth, the central figure...

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...

I like Horowitz, but this is no.3 of a series of post Ian Fleming James Bond novels. The last Ian Fleming I read must have been about 50...

Have read this before, but struggling to find things in the library. A bolt on, I think, to the earlier four Jackson Brodie books. Brodie...

Variety of short stories, mostly undistinguished apart from a brilliant Slough House one involving Lamb and the lady in the wheelchair,...

A curious mixture of chick lit and crime, with the chick lit predominant, and all taking place in or around St Albans cathedral. The...

I didn’t enjoy the first of these, I think called ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. But that is because I didn’t understand the genre. This is...

I like Ricky Ellory, but this disappointed me. Felt very repetitive and structurally very similar to others; gruesome murder of women, a...

Thought this was a new one, but I have read it before. Worth a re-read through as Robinson is one of my favourite writers. His scope is...

An anthology of modern crime short stories. Quality quite variable; the best I thought by Denise Mina, about a family with a disturbed...

I enjoyed this with some caveats. The character of Logan is better portrayed than in no.911 and the impact of his prosopagnosia comes out...

Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...

Didn’t like the title, so not a good start! Very opaque, but quite a good thriller once I had (just about) worked out the plot! Worth...

The first Laidlaw novel, completed by Rankin following McIvanney’s death in 2015. I found it very hard work and with few characters of...

Never heard of the author, but this was very good, and beautifully written. A crime novel, set possibly in Edwardian or late Victorian...

I think I may have read one of his before – a trilogy called 'Berlin Noir', many years ago. This was long and ponderous at times, but a...

Never heard of the author (he wrote ‘Get Carter’ apparently) and worked on the animation of 'Yellow Submarine'. This is basically London...

This could have been called 'Gangs of New York', but I think someone else got there first. A long and at times hard work book. The...

Xmas present from Dan, signed by the author. Parallel plot lines; Clarke in Edinburgh doing conventional police work; Rebus now...

I like Denise Mina, with her weird punk hair, and enjoyed her on the TV recently with Frank Skinner on Boswell & Johnson’s tour of...