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May 19, 20231 min read
1066. Ian Rankin - A Heart Full Of Headstones
Framed, in an opening and final chapter by Rebus, on trial for murder. The middle of the book is a typical Rebus story (he is now...
Apr 21, 20231 min read
1059. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
Another Ian Rankin for Edinburgh, although finished this back home. The mid-phase books are a bit similar; this one features mainly...
Apr 13, 20231 min read
1057. Ian Rankin - Dead Soul
Very good to read Ian Rankin in Edinburgh, where we now are, as the books are so heavily located here and you can follow the plot...
Jan 17, 20221 min read
934. Mary Paulson-Ellis - Emily Noble's Disgrace
This is very different, quite difficult and very good. A book about a boarding house in Portabello, Edinburgh, really throughout the 20th...
Jul 4, 20201 min read
796. Ian Rankin - Even Dogs In The Wild
This was brilliant. Must have read it before and quite recently as published in 2016, but didn’t remember it at all. Three plot elements...
Feb 7, 20191 min read
656. Ian Rankin - Strip Jack
An early (I think) Rebus novel, pre Siobhan Clarke and Cafferty. This is pretty good - about an up and coming (married) politician caught...
Oct 11, 20181 min read
631. Kate Atkinson - When Will There Be Good News
So this is no.3 Jackson Brodie, and again very good – I wish she had written, or would write, more. This one begins with a family...
Oct 6, 20181 min read
630. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
Bingeing on Jackson Brodie - this is no.2 and although quite different as good as no.1. Julie is now Jackson’s girlfriend and the action...
Oct 1, 20181 min read
629. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
If she is so good, better read another. This is no.1 in the series; 628 is the 4th and last to date. This is very good as well; begins...
Feb 12, 20181 min read
572. Muriel Spark - The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie
I don’t think I have ever read any Muriel Spark before, but put her on my list after reading 568. Quite a strange book; Jean Brodie’s...
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...
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,...
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,...