Reviews

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’...

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...

Jul 5, 20131 min read

125. Gunnar Staalesen - The Writing On The Wall

A bit of Scandinavian crime pushed in the UK heavily a couple of years ago following the Wallander boom. OK-ish as a story, middle-class...

Jun 24, 20131 min read

123. R. J. Ellory - A Dark And Broken Heart

My Kindle miraculously revived, but I am afraid that this book suffered in comparison with no.122. Rookie cop caught between his job and...

May 27, 20131 min read

109. Henning Mankell - The Dogs Of Riga

This is a really good book; Mankell is a cut above most thriller writers. It gathers pace, a bit like a lot of films where more attention...

Jan 26, 20131 min read

74. Maj Sjowall & Per Wahlöö - The Terrorists

The last one in the series and pretty good. There is a wonderful lawyer whose name I can't remember who speaks I am sure with the authors...

Dec 24, 20121 min read

67. Linda Fairstein - Night Watch

Never heard of this author; she was a New York prosecutor of crimes against women. The sub-plot is based loosely around the Dominic...

Dec 3, 20121 min read

62. Val McDermid - Killing The Shadows

I must have read this before in Crete (the bookmark gave it away) but could remember nothing about it. About a serial killer who targets...

Nov 25, 20121 min read

60. Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö - The Fire Engine That Disappeared

Pretty good, again. A book about an absent (for most of the book) criminal, the police spend most of the time looking for a murderer who...

Nov 10, 20121 min read

54. Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö - Roseanna

The first Martin Beck novel was written by a Swedish communist husband and wife team in the 1960's. Well dramatised on Radio 4 recently,...

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 26, 20121 min read

45. Kerry Wilkinson - Vigilante

Similar to no.41 and although Jessica Daniel's character had developed, I didn't think it was as good (or maybe it was better, but hadn't...

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 9, 20121 min read

31. Sinclair Macleod - The Reluctant Detective

The first in a series of which no.30 above must be the second. The plot is a bit more obvious and the writing is not as good. But quite a...

Aug 4, 20121 min read

30. Sinclair Macleod - The Good Girl

'Caught' by Amazon's marketing, I paid £1.02 for this. It is actually quite good, writing isn't bad. Hero is a private eye type, normally...

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 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...

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...

May 5, 20121 min read

7. Stieg Larsson - The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

I have read this before, but equally good 2nd time round. Fast-paced and with a brilliant plot. Does the Wennerstrom empire appear in the...