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Jan 12, 20221 min read
933. Olivier Norek - Turf Wars
This is pretty low grade. From the writer of the French TV serial 'Spiral', which we enjoy. This is just violent turf wars and political...
Aug 22, 20211 min read
887. Ted Lewis - GBH
Never heard of the author (he wrote ‘Get Carter’ apparently) and worked on the animation of 'Yellow Submarine'. This is basically London...
Jul 19, 20211 min read
878. Sadie Jones - The Snakes
One of P’s. I quite enjoyed this and it was original in that the two central characters Dan and Bea (Dante P suggested?!) are both dead...
Jun 12, 20211 min read
867. Peter Robinson - Many Rivers To Cross
Good, but not one of his best. Murders in N Yorkshire meet sex trafficking and people smuggling from central Europe. Banks apart, the...
Feb 26, 20211 min read
849. R. J. Ellory - City Of Lies
This could have been called 'Gangs of New York', but I think someone else got there first. A long and at times hard work book. The...
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...
Apr 10, 20181 min read
585. Jake Arnott - The Long Firm
Have read this before but took it as airport aeroplane reading, and as the flight to Stockholm was delayed got through a lot of it. It is...
Mar 20, 20181 min read
579. Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
This is interesting because I first read this in June 2012 (no 19) and hated it! 6 years later I thought it was pretty good; not that...
Jun 2, 20171 min read
491. David Mark - Original Skin
Did indeed! This guy is very good, and these are high class police procedurals, with a good variety of police colleagues of McAvoy, who...
Feb 12, 20171 min read
467. G. F. Newman - The Corrupted Part 2
Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...
Jan 31, 20171 min read
464. G F Newman - The Corrupted Part One
I think this guy is also a TV script-writer, but this was very good. Set in the East End post war, a bunch of working class on the...
Aug 19, 20131 min read
137. Denise Mina - Exile
The follow-up to 'Garnethill', which I must have enjoyed more than no.134 above indicates. The plot is less personal to Maureen this time...
May 8, 20131 min read
102. Mark Billingham - The Burning Girl
Still can't make up my mind about this guy; this was not a great book. Need to find another author! Get this on Amazon
Mar 29, 20131 min read
91. Jay Stringer - Runaway Town
Conned by Amazon's marketing, but I wanted a cheap thriller, so this is what I bought. Not bad as such - the hero is a Roma ex-cop,...
Sep 21, 20121 min read
44. R.J. Ellory - City Of Lies
Not one of his best, in fact disappointing. A guy who thought his father was dead finds out that he is a New York hoodlum. Lots of people...