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Apr 10, 20161 min read
391. James Crumley - The Last Good Kiss
Bought this with the last chunk of a Xmas book voucher, because it was well positioned in Waterstones as you went through the door. I...
Mar 12, 20161 min read
384. Louise Penny - The Long Way Home
Book of the year so far. For me, this was like the conclusion of the Gamache series; it helps to have read most of the others to pick up...
Mar 4, 20161 min read
382. Louise Penny - How The Light Gets In
Pretty good and a lot better than no.376, which it follows. This is, I think, the culmination of the Gamache/Francoeur conflict which...
Dec 30, 20151 min read
366. Louise Penny - A Murder Stone
This is the first not centred in Three Pines, and I found it less appealing. A slightly Agatha Christie closed community novel – a...
Dec 26, 20151 min read
365. Louise Penny - The Cruelest Month
This is a lot better than Harkin Nasser, although the plot in this one was a bit overloaded as there is a back plot about corruption in...
Dec 19, 20151 min read
363. Louise Penny - Dead Cold
This is much better. Gamache revisits Three Pines for another murder – you could wonder if there are enough inhabitants – so we meet many...
Dec 17, 20151 min read
362. Louise Penny - Still Life
An author I discovered on an online ‘Best recent crime’ list. A very gentle book, set in a village somewhere outside Montreal /Quebec,...
Nov 17, 20151 min read
355. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
I enjoyed this, particularly the element focussing on the refugee crisis, with added topicality today, 10 years after publication. The...
Sep 15, 20151 min read
337. Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog
The last (I think) of the Brodie books. I found this the least enjoyable. It was somehow too dense and lacked the lightness of touch of...
Sep 11, 20151 min read
336. Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News
Enjoying these so much, I immediately bought the 3rd Brodie novel (no.335 is the 1st and no.336 the 2nd). This took a bit of time to get...
Sep 7, 20151 min read
335. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
This is even better; the first in the Jackson Brodie series. Begins with three quite unconnected murders, happening at different times...
Sep 4, 20151 min read
334. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
I am obviously becoming a fan. This is another very good book, quite different, a comic private eye novel featuring Jackson Brodie,...
Aug 21, 20151 min read
331. Ian Rankin - The Naming Of The Dead
Odd experience, as I expected this to be a re-read, but it must have sat, unread, on my book case for years. Siobhan’s parents have never...
Jun 6, 20151 min read
308. Michael Connelly - The Black Echo
This year’s aeroplane read. Never read any Michael Connelly before and, by chance, this looks like a re-issue of his first published...
Mar 7, 20151 min read
287. Peter Robinson - Abattoir Blues
The latest. I loved the expansiveness of the opening; apart from a stolen tractor and some blood in a disused aircraft hangar, there...
Feb 27, 20151 min read
285. Ian Rankin - Tooth And Nail
Need something easy to read so picked an early Ian Rankin, which I didn’t remember. Rebus is seconded to London, to help the Met out on a...
Jan 25, 20151 min read
278. Ian Rankin - Dead Souls
I am enjoying Rankin more and more second time around; when I first read his books something didn’t gel for me, but it seems to now,...
Jan 2, 20151 min read
274. Fred Vargas - The Chalk Circle Man
This is the one I had read before; it has a very clever ending, although I found there was too much interior monologue from Adamsberg,...
Jan 1, 20151 min read
273. Fred Vargas - Have Mercy On Us All
A Christmas present from Ben. I had read one of hers before, which I didn’t really enjoy, but this was excellent. A bizarre plot...
Oct 27, 20141 min read
257. John Harvey - Flesh And Blood
Having seen this guy in the library last week, thought I would try some of his other books. This one doesn’t feature Resnick, but another...