Reviews 

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,...

A variant on Scandi noir, this is set in Helsinki, so Finnish noir, which lacks resonance. A quite good police procedural, with a very...

One of Paddy’s – this pretty good. Sounds a bit Dorothy Sayers from the title and not that dissimilar in certain ways. Nine (perfect...

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...

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...

Described as a novel, this is really five short stories, with obscure (if at all) thematic interlinkings. The best was the last one, but...

I thought, rather to my surprise, that this was complete tosh. Badly written (or translated? I know Flaubert is supposed to be a master...