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Sep 1, 20171 min read
518. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Went for another Mick Herron, despite the above. These books do improve all the time. I didn’t fully understand the plot here – which of...
Aug 27, 20171 min read
517. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
Originally read this (463) in January, as all his books were well reviewed, inter alia, by Ann Cleeves in the Radio Times. There are a...
Jun 28, 20171 min read
504. James Lee Burke - Black Cherry Blues
Haven’t read one of these for years. I used to love James Lee Burke, but that was in a different place and this now seems pretty...
Jun 20, 20171 min read
503. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
The first Jackson Brodie novel; this is classy ‘detective’ writing compared to some of those above. As I have read a lot of these before...
Jun 19, 20171 min read
502. David Mark - Cruel Mercy
The 6th DS McAvoy book. This one was certainly different; set not in Hull but New York, and with a splenetic plot involving the Mafia,...
Jun 13, 20171 min read
497. David Mark - Dead Pretty
The 5th Aector McAvoy book, and although I think flagged by Richard & July, I thought the weakest. Otherwise as 494!. Get this on Amazon
May 27, 20171 min read
490. David Mark - Dark Winter
The kindle book that briefly died. The first in another series of detective/procedural novels, this time featuring DS Aector McAvoy, and...
May 20, 20171 min read
488. Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed
Brilliant new book, brilliant new author. Very cleverly plotted although the phrase from The 4 Quartets at the beginning rather gives...
May 5, 20171 min read
485. Peter Robinson - The Price Of Love
Short stories, which I may have read before, but bought late night after finishing 484 above. The final one, which is probably a novella,...
May 4, 20171 min read
484. Peter Robinson - When The Music's Over
The new Banks novel, based (topically) on Jimmy Saville (the newly promoted Banks investigates and Winsome) and grooming white working...
Apr 12, 20171 min read
479. Tana French - The Trespasser
No 6/6 of the Dublin murder mysteries, of which I hoped to save at least 3 until we go on holiday. They are very long. Antoinette Conway...
Mar 26, 20171 min read
476. Tana French - Broken Harbour (4)
No. 4 in the series. I am not sure this was a good as 1-3, but it wasn’t at all bad. The central figure in this one is a minor figure in...
Feb 20, 20171 min read
468. Arnaldur Indridason - Outrage
I have read this before, but wanted a light book to counterbalance Jane Austen. Reminded me thematically of Louise Penny, in that the...
Jan 28, 20171 min read
463. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
I have never heard of the author and can’t make my mind up about the book. The ‘Slow Horses’ are rejects from MI5 (or equivalent) who...
Oct 11, 20161 min read
437. Peter Robinson - A Dedicated Man
He is a good writer this guy. Despite having read this before, I had no clue ‘whodunnit’ until the last chapter (perhaps a function of my...
Sep 30, 20161 min read
434. Arnaldur Indridason - The Draining Lake
I quite like this guy; have read this before; it is the one about the Icelandic left wing students who go on a communist sponsored year...
Aug 8, 20161 min read
423. Marcia Muller - Pennies On A Dead Woman's Eyes
This has sat in the house for years. Origins unclear; published by The Women’s Press, a female private eye (well she’s not, she is a...
Jun 9, 20161 min read
410. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
A pretty good mature Rankin. I have come to enjoy him much more recently. This one I had bought and read quite recently, pretty good on...
Jun 2, 20161 min read
406. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was
Great airport reading choice; I think one of Robinson’s best. About two dead adolescent boys – 30 years apart, one a schoolfriend of...
Apr 17, 20161 min read
393. Robert Campbell - Alice In La-La-Land
Rescued a load of rather low grade thrillers from the attic in a search for other books, as in Simon Raven novels, none of which I could...