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Feb 12, 20221 min read
945. Peter Robinson - Many Rivers To Cross
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...
Feb 10, 20221 min read
944. Peter Papathanasiou - The Stoning
A new genre to me – ‘outback noir’; The Dry might fall into this category. An apparent murder in a grim town in the Australian outback,...
Dec 21, 20211 min read
925. David Palin - The Armistice Killer
Read this again, as I had a completely rubbishy library book. Much better on a 2nd read as the plot was less opaque, and the...
Dec 1, 20211 min read
919. Håkan Nesser - The Lonely Ones
Best novel I have read for a while. Beautifully constructed and written. The plot covers a 35 year period from the mid 1970’s to the...
Oct 24, 20211 min read
911. David Palin - This Changed Everthing
Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...
Oct 21, 20211 min read
909. David Palin - This Changed Everything
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...
Oct 15, 20211 min read
907. Anthony Horowitz - A Line To Kill
Horowitz is a very clever writer and this is a clever book. It features a pastiche of Horowitz himself as Dr Watson to Hawthorne’s...
Sep 4, 20211 min read
891. Graham Masterson - Blood Sisters
This guy is very good. The books are full of very graphic violence, but are extremely well plotted and the central figure Kate Maguire is...
Aug 29, 20211 min read
889. Graham Masterson - The Last Drop Of Blood
Never heard of the author, just grabbed this from the library to read over the bank holiday week-end. And it is really good, probably one...
Jun 18, 20211 min read
870. Ian Rankin - Westwind
This is rather overblown by the publishers ‘the iconic number one bestseller’, ‘the classic lost thriller’. In point of fact, as Rankin...
Jun 9, 20211 min read
866. Mick Herron - London Rules
I think this is the title. It is the one that begins with a massacre, cunningly written so that I assumed set in Africa until the last...
Jun 6, 20211 min read
865. Paul Auster - City Of Glass
Was reminded of this by no.863, so gave it another read. Not much similarity really. This is very obscure – starts as a parody of...
Feb 10, 20211 min read
847. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Haven’t been reading as much (or as quickly) due to a lockdown related recent obsession with jigsaws. Have just nearly completed one 1000...
Nov 28, 20201 min read
830. Denise Mina - The Less Dead
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...
Oct 31, 20201 min read
823. Colin Dexter - The Silent World Of Nicholas Quinn
Started this after my kindle ran out of power, mid way into 824. This was so baffling obscure, that I was relieved when Lewis sat down...
Oct 23, 20201 min read
822. Mark Billingham - Sleepyhead
I have read this guy before, with slightly mixed feelings, but heard him on the radio so gave him another try. Can’t really make my mind...
Jul 6, 20201 min read
797. Colin Dexter - The Wench Is Dead
I enjoyed the first ¾ of this enormously; beautifully written (not something I remember from Colin Dexter). Morse is in hospital; another...
Jun 10, 20201 min read
789. Raymond Chandler - The Lady In The Lake
This is quite complex. Chandler seems to write about a very decadent West Coast American in, is it the 1930’s or 40’s. Sexual fidelity...
Jun 7, 20201 min read
788. Sara Paretsky - Deadlock
I think what I said at 786 above is correct; these books do seem to me to be quite structurally and thematically repetitive. We again...
Jun 4, 20201 min read
787. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
I have read this many times before but never really understood it; the plot is quite complex, but essentially it is a novel about a sex...