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Mar 8, 20231 min read
1050. R. J. Ellory - A Simple Act Of Violence
Have read this before and it is brilliant. Starts with a murder, and then looks for the next 100 or so pages like a police-procedural,...
Dec 5, 20211 min read
920. Max Seeck - The Ice Coven
A variant on Scandi noir, this is set in Helsinki, so Finnish noir, which lacks resonance. A quite good police procedural, with a very...
Aug 10, 20191 min read
703. Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers
One of Paddy’s – this pretty good. Sounds a bit Dorothy Sayers from the title and not that dissimilar in certain ways. Nine (perfect...
Sep 19, 20171 min read
525. Louise Penny - Glass Houses
I loved this, but she is a much better writer about the complex personal interactions within Three Pines than she is when she tries to...
May 12, 20161 min read
398. Philip Rosenberg - Tygers Of Wrath
Another attic book. Started this before no.395 as it and the next three were all library books. This was OK, but had a very slow start. A...
Dec 26, 20121 min read
67. Sebastian Faulks - A Possible Life
Described as a novel, this is really five short stories, with obscure (if at all) thematic interlinkings. The best was the last one, but...
Jun 6, 20121 min read
14. Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary
I thought, rather to my surprise, that this was complete tosh. Badly written (or translated? I know Flaubert is supposed to be a master...