Reviews 

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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