Reviews 

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...

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,...

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...

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...

Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is rather overblown by the publishers ‘the iconic number one bestseller’, ‘the classic lost thriller’. In point of fact, as Rankin...

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...

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...

Haven’t been reading as much (or as quickly) due to a lockdown related recent obsession with jigsaws. Have just nearly completed one 1000...

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...

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...

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...

I enjoyed the first ¾ of this enormously; beautifully written (not something I remember from Colin Dexter). Morse is in hospital; another...

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...

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...

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...