Reviews 

Haven’t read any of these for years. V.I. Warshawski is a feminist updated Philip Marlow PI, with much of the same personal ambience, run...

I do like these books, although they take a bit of getting into, but are easier 2nd time round. This one features the downfall of a top,...

Bingeing on detective novels at present, partly to have a nice easy book to read in the COVID queue at Tesco’s on a Saturday morning. (A...

An earlier book, I think, than 769 and 771 above. Plot more compressed which I thought was good, but also very convoluted towards the...

Haven’t read any Ruth Rendell for years. This was good although I found it a bit ponderous for the first 300 pages. But her style at...

Completely different in tone from 767, which I enjoyed more. This is a quasi historical detective novel, the historical bit of the plot a...

Bingeing a bit on R Hill at the moment. This is brilliant. A combination of Lady Chatterley (aka Ellie Pascoe) + a post-miner’s strike...

Was trying to find a different book, which I think I read from the library so not on my Kindle, it appears. So re-read this instead. I...

I have read this before, but found it absolutely brilliant 2nd time round. The Slough House characters (and indeed the house itself) are...

Totally different from 760 above, unless I have misunderstood 760. This is quite a serious and challenging book, about a father murdering...

Bingeing on detective novels at the moment. Reginald Hill was a great writer, but his novels became more obscure and baroque as his...

I think the 3rd Dalziel and Pascoe and, despite what I said above, this was pretty complex and difficult. Also introduces Frannie Root,...

I am not sure that I have read any before, and am not sure I would read any more. I thought this was pretty trite and trivial in...

I have read this before (published 2018) and it is good. The thing that irritates me about the later Banks books is that Banks has turned...

Felt like a Peter Robinson after all these rather difficult books. He is probably my favourite detective novelist, and the earlier books,...

This I think is the 3rd book in a trilogy which ends with Smiley trapping Karla’s daughter who has been smuggled into Europe...

I heard this guy on the radio and thought ‘Here’s a crime writer I have never heard of’. But a poor writer. The plot theme was...

This is a long and quite complex novel; feels valedictory. Rebus has now retired, Siobhan is older, and the plot involves many of the...

Haven’t read any for many years but 707 sparked my interest. This is a good and really brilliantly plotted whodunit – if you haven’t read...

I think this is the first Peter Robinson I ever read years ago and had little memory of the plot. I had forgotten about the lesbian...