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Aug 3, 20191 min read
701. Peter Robinson - Careless Love
Really enjoyed this, Robinson back close to his best. Plot involves 2 rather obscure and apparently unrelated deaths, geographically...
Jul 29, 20191 min read
700. Lawrence Block - Even The Wicked
I like this writer and hadn’t read one for years, but picked one of which I had no memory, perhaps because it is not that good. Three...
Jul 12, 20191 min read
695. Louise Penny - Kingdom Of The Blind
These books are (becoming, for me) a bit repetitive. This (I think) is no.14 and I have missed 13, so bits of plot. The Three Pines...
Jul 7, 20191 min read
694. Kate Atkinson - Big Sky
The return of Jackson Brodie. This was good, but not as rich as some of the previous books; read a bit as if her agent or backers had...
Jun 21, 20191 min read
690. Peter Robinson - Aftermath
I read this years ago and really enjoyed it, despite relatively low expectations as I remembered most of the plot. But what I had...
May 16, 20191 min read
683. William McIlvanney - Strange Loyalties
A book whose provenance I don’t know; must have been my father’s if the marginal jottings are in his handwriting. Not unlike a Rebus...
Apr 12, 20191 min read
676. Ed McBain - Nocturne
McBain is a very good writer and I have lots of his books on the bookcase, which I haven’t read for years. I have wasted a lot of money...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
673. Peter Robinson - Friend Of The Devil
As Banks says at some point, the title ruins a [reasonably] good Grateful Dead song. The one (which I have read several times before)...
Mar 30, 20191 min read
671. Ian Rankin - Tooth And Nail
I have read this (and most of Rankin’s books) before, but unlike say Peter Robinson (and Rankin is I think a better writer) the titles...
Feb 17, 20191 min read
660. Peter May - I'll Keep You Safe
This was well plotted but really it ran into melodrama. My memory of May’s earlier books is of dense plotting, linguistic challenges...
Feb 7, 20191 min read
656. Ian Rankin - Strip Jack
An early (I think) Rebus novel, pre Siobhan Clarke and Cafferty. This is pretty good - about an up and coming (married) politician caught...
Jan 25, 20191 min read
653. C. J. Sansom - Dissolution
Never read any of these before, but very very good. Quasi detective novels set in Tudor England whose heroine/ detective Shardlake is a...
Jan 20, 20191 min read
652. Peter Robinson - Sleeping In The Ground
The new Peter Robinson. Structurally not unlike 652 above, in that the killer’s motivation is an event long in the past. Very slow...
Jan 13, 20191 min read
651. Reginald Hill - A Killing Kindness
Re-read this as a substitute to 650 above, and can’t remember that much about it now, maybe not a recommendation. A series of unrelated...
Jan 7, 20191 min read
648. Ragnar Jónasson - The Darkness
An Xmas present from Dan, an Icelandic detective/ thriller. The heroine is a semi-retired and slightly superannuated policewoman in...
Nov 5, 20181 min read
637. Alice LaPlante - A Circle Of Wives
Wanted a detective story/thriller for a change but this was poor, although the author is quite acclaimed. A real old fashioned ‘who...
Oct 6, 20181 min read
630. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
Bingeing on Jackson Brodie - this is no.2 and although quite different as good as no.1. Julie is now Jackson’s girlfriend and the action...
Oct 1, 20181 min read
629. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
If she is so good, better read another. This is no.1 in the series; 628 is the 4th and last to date. This is very good as well; begins...
Sep 28, 20181 min read
628. Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog
This last of the Jackson Brodies’ restored my faith in Kate Atkinson after the disappointing 625. This is a brilliant book, clever,...
Sep 22, 20181 min read
627. Jay Stringer - Runaway Town
Running out of books on holiday, found this on my kindle. Never read it before and won’t again. Get this on Amazon