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Apr 10, 20181 min read
585. Jake Arnott - The Long Firm
Have read this before but took it as airport aeroplane reading, and as the flight to Stockholm was delayed got through a lot of it. It is...
Mar 15, 20181 min read
577. Jake Arnott - The Fatal Tree
A virtuoso feat of writing, but maybe not much else? Set in 18th century London, written in an (I assume) genuine working class London...
Feb 17, 20181 min read
573. Mick Herron - London Rules
I think this is the best one yet; the writing, ‘fit’ with the various characters and plotting all excellent. The first chapter and...
Oct 17, 20171 min read
542. Mick Herron - Smoke And Whispers
The 4th Zoe Boehm book, and the weakest (I am not sure whether he has written any more). By a neat novelistic twist, Zoe doesn’t appear...
Sep 12, 20171 min read
522. Lisa Jewell - I Found You
One of Paddy’s from the library. I loved this (as did she). Romance/thriller set in a seaside north Yorkshire village, starting with a...
Aug 27, 20171 min read
517. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
Originally read this (463) in January, as all his books were well reviewed, inter alia, by Ann Cleeves in the Radio Times. There are a...
Jul 18, 20171 min read
508. Ruth Ware - The Lying Game
This is a good book but I found it slightly annoying because the plot is structurally very similar to 505 - adult woman drawn back into...
Jul 2, 20171 min read
505. Ruth Ware - In A Dark, Dark Wood
Brilliant. I found this hard to get into initially because it is very much a girl’s book, but after that initial difficulty it was...
Jun 13, 20171 min read
497. David Mark - Dead Pretty
The 5th Aector McAvoy book, and although I think flagged by Richard & July, I thought the weakest. Otherwise as 494!. Get this on Amazon
Jun 7, 20171 min read
494. David Mark - Taking Pity
The 4th book. As 493 above! Get this on Amazon
Jun 6, 20171 min read
493. David Mark - Sorrow Bound
The 3rd Aector McAvoy novel. On holiday so I didn’t write up book notes every time I finished a book, so I can’t remember much of the...
May 5, 20171 min read
485. Peter Robinson - The Price Of Love
Short stories, which I may have read before, but bought late night after finishing 484 above. The final one, which is probably a novella,...
Apr 29, 20171 min read
483. Lisa McInerney - The Glorious Heresies
A strange book, based among the poor working and criminal class in Modern Cork city. Couldn’t really work out the genre; crimes, but no...
Apr 22, 20171 min read
482. Susan Lewis - The Moment She Left
The 3rd of Paddy’s library books, after burn out with Tana French. If 480 was brilliant and 481 execrable, this was middling. The genre...
Feb 12, 20171 min read
467. G. F. Newman - The Corrupted Part 2
Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...
Jan 31, 20171 min read
464. G F Newman - The Corrupted Part One
I think this guy is also a TV script-writer, but this was very good. Set in the East End post war, a bunch of working class on the...
Jan 15, 20171 min read
461. Ian Rankin - Even Dogs In The Wild
Read this, untypically, in parallel with 460 above. I have enjoyed Rankin recently but found this a little low grade and predictable,...
Nov 11, 20161 min read
443. Eric Ambler - The Light Of Day
The 2nd of the above books. I hugely enjoyed this for the 1st 80%, but the final element of the plot was very disappointing. The hapless...
Nov 5, 20161 min read
441. Patrick Neate - City Of Tiny Lights
Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...
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...