Reviews

Oct 4, 20231 min read

1097. Peter Robinson - Bad Boy

This one follows no.1096, I think, and involves Banks’ daughter Tracy who gets involved with a ‘Bad Boy’. The early bit of the book is...

Sep 26, 20231 min read

1096. Peter Robinson - Careless Love

Another very good one, starting with two mysterious deaths, a young girl found dead in an abandoned car, and an elderly (obviously...

Sep 22, 20231 min read

1095. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was

And another. This is much more typical, with a parallel plot involving the murder of a disturbed teenager in Eastvale (largely Annie) and...

Sep 8, 20231 min read

1092. Peter Robinson - Children Of The Revolution

The one in which a lonely no-hoper has been pushed off a bridge near his house and begins with Banks walking along the (disused, post...

Aug 31, 20231 min read

1090. Peter Robinson - When The Music’s Over

Thought I would read a more recent one. This is structured around two fictionalisations of real-life events: Saville and historic abuse...

Aug 27, 20231 min read

1089. Peter Robinson - Cold Is The Grave

Enjoyed the last one enough to read another. This is brilliant and I think probably one of the best. A family tragedy, involving...

Aug 25, 20231 min read

1088. Peter Robinson - Playing With Fire

I really do enjoy these books. This is a relatively early (2004) one that I have read before and has been on TV, starting with a fire on...

Aug 10, 20231 min read

1085. Peter Robinson - Watching The Dark

I have read this before but was possibly binge-reading Robinson at the time and enjoyed it a lot more this time. This one begins in north...

Aug 5, 20231 min read

1082. Colin Dexter - The Dead Of Jericho

Read this on holiday but was really not well at the time and didn’t enjoy or follow it at all. Get this from Waterstones

Jul 27, 20231 min read

1081. Colin Dexter - Death Is Now My Neighbour

This is a more conventional Morse novel than no.1072 and I didn’t enjoy it as much. A suburban Oxford street, a murder, several suspects,...

Jun 3, 20231 min read

1072. Colin Dexter - The Daughters Of Cain

Haven’t read any of these for years, but thought I would read something a bit less contemporary, and this is brilliant (compared to some...

May 19, 20231 min read

1066. Ian Rankin - A Heart Full Of Headstones

Framed, in an opening and final chapter by Rebus, on trial for murder. The middle of the book is a typical Rebus story (he is now...

Apr 3, 20231 min read

1055. Anthony Horowitz - Moriarty

Horowitz is a very good writer and this is a very good book. A fictionalised (well obviously, the whole thing is fiction) reconstruction...

Jan 28, 20231 min read

1045. Harkan Nesser - The Mind's Eye

There are good books to read in the run up to 31 January, fast-paced detective stories. Like no.1044, this is quite Freudian, featuring...

Jan 25, 20231 min read

1044. Hakan Nesser - The Strangler's Honeymoon

This is the first of his books that I ever read and it is very good – prompted me to buy lots more a few years ago. Beautifully written...

Aug 26, 20221 min read

1007. Clare Clark - Trespass

This is very good. A young trendy woman has had an affair and child with a political activist, who has subsequently disappeared. She...

Jun 9, 20221 min read

987. Robert Galbraith - The Cuckoo's Calling

The first of the Cormorant Strike novels in which the eponymous hero and Robin his P.A, business partner and romantic partner are...

Jun 9, 20221 min read

988. Mick Herron - Dolphin Junction

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

May 19, 20221 min read

979. Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders

This is incredibly clever, although I think a sequel to Magpie Murders, which is written with the same conceit. You get two books for the...

May 12, 20221 min read

977. Anthony Horowitz - A Line To Kill

Have read this before and actually quite recently, but didn’t recognise it in the library, or indeed remember much of the plot second...