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Oct 6, 20141 min read
252. John Harvey - Cold In Hand
Another John Harvey from the library; there are lots. They are well plotted, and one of the interesting aspects is that the narration is...
Oct 2, 20141 min read
251. Håkan Nesser - The Return
Read this intermittently; started it before no.249 and no.250 had the libraries imperative. I enjoy Nesser, but really van Veeteren is...
Sep 20, 20141 min read
248. John Harvey - Darkness, Darkness
I think I have read one of the Resnick novels before, without really enjoying it. Jon Harvey is coming to speak at our local library in a...
Sep 7, 20141 min read
242. Håkan Nesser - Hour Of The Wolf
Needed a proper novel, with a plot, after no.241. This has a great plot with apparently quite unrelated deaths (one not a murder) linked...
Aug 12, 20141 min read
234. Ian Rankin - Saints Of The Shadow Bible
Our local library is I am sure struggling to survive, so I went in to give it a bit of support. Few decent books though! Anyway another...
Aug 2, 20141 min read
231. Anne Zouroudi - The Messenger Of Athens
The author was recommended to Paddy by her friend Rod Lee. A detective series set in modern Greece; well this one on a tiny island....
Jul 31, 20141 min read
230. Ian Rankin - Exit Music
The last, I think, or intended last, Rebus. I found this structurally very similar to no.228 initially, with Russian money playing the...
Jul 17, 20141 min read
228. Ian Rankin - Set In Darkness
Very good – I have really enjoyed Ian Rankin over the last couple of years; odd because I never used to. Perhaps it was the alcohol. By...
Jun 24, 20141 min read
224. Håkan Nesser - Woman With Birthmark
Maybe it is an unfortunate coincidence, but this is just too similar to 'Borkmann’s Point'. Again a killer on an apparently random...
Jun 21, 20141 min read
223. Håkan Nesser - Borkmann's Point
The last of the Nesser’s that I had taken on holiday. This one features Van Veetern pre-retirement, although called from holiday to...
Jun 15, 20141 min read
221. Jonathan Kellerman - True Detectives
Truly awful, but I needed a bit of a light read and found this in the villa. Kellerman is the worst type of US psycho-crime babble...
Jun 12, 20141 min read
218. Peter Robinson - Innocent Graves
Need a quick detective novel after the marathon of no.217... Have read this before but forgotten the middle section where the wrong guy...
Jun 7, 20141 min read
216. Håkan Nesser - The Weeping Girl
Brilliant. Nesser is really good. This story features Eva Moreno, his only female detective, a sexier version of Siobhan Clarke in Rebus,...
Jun 5, 20141 min read
214. Håkan Nesser - The Unlucky Lottery
Inauspicious start, but then read en route to Spain in overnight hotel, then delayed in Gatwick, half asleep on plane and finished in...
Jun 1, 20141 min read
213. Håkan Nesser - The Strangler's Honeymoon
This is the only thing I lost in the crash – a writer I had never heard of before, but branded in some marketing quarters as ‘the...
May 27, 20141 min read
212. Ian Rankin -The Falls
Needed a bit of a detective, after all that rather literary stuff. I have come to enjoy Ian Rankin rather more second time round,...
Apr 8, 20141 min read
196. Laurence Gough - Death On A No. 8 Hook
An old detective novel I must have ‘borrowed' from my Dad, as his annotations are evident. Quite well written, but pretty clichéd — a...
Mar 23, 20141 min read
190. Ian Rankin - The Black Book
Felt as if I had read this quite recently; could index this document somehow. Never really been able to make up my mind about Rebus — I...
Jan 24, 20141 min read
179. David Hewson - The Killing
An adaptation of the TV series, a lot of which I had forgotten or missed. Very good, very long (700+ pages) but fast-paced. Although...
Dec 15, 20131 min read
170. Colin Dexter - Death Is Now My Neighbour
Haven’t read a Morse book for years. Dexter does write vigorous, wordy as you would expect, prose, and it is a fast page-turner of a...