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Oct 4, 20231 min read
1097. Peter Robinson - Bad Boy
This one follows no.1096, I think, and involves Banks’ daughter Tracy who gets involved with a ‘Bad Boy’. The early bit of the book is...
Aug 27, 20231 min read
1089. Peter Robinson - Cold Is The Grave
Enjoyed the last one enough to read another. This is brilliant and I think probably one of the best. A family tragedy, involving...
Jun 24, 20231 min read
1076. Kate Atkinson - Shrines Of Gaiety
I am a big fan, especially of the Jackson Brodie series and found this a bit disappointing. Set in 1920’s London, the central figure is...
Apr 3, 20231 min read
1055. Anthony Horowitz - Moriarty
Horowitz is a very good writer and this is a very good book. A fictionalised (well obviously, the whole thing is fiction) reconstruction...
Mar 11, 20231 min read
1051. Amanda Jennings - The Haven
This started well but deteriorated. Starts in 1995 (but should have been 20+ years earlier) with three hippies who decide to escape...
Feb 3, 20231 min read
1046. John Boyne - The Echo Chamber
I quite enjoyed this. A comedy about a wealthy and overprivileged family in contemporary London, George a TV presenter having an affair...
Jan 13, 20231 min read
1041. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Can’t remember the titles of all these books (particularly if read on a kindle), but this is the one that starts with Catherine Standish’...
Jan 7, 20231 min read
1040. Sean Lusk - The 2nd Sight Of Zachary Cloudesly
This is very good and a lot better than no.1039. Set in the late 18th century in London, Istanbul, and elsewhere, it involves a...
Dec 5, 20221 min read
1034. Harriet Tyce - Blood Orange
I have read this before, but have no memory of it, I think, except for a scene where the daughter is lost on Hampstead Heath. There is a...
Nov 28, 20221 min read
1033. Mick Herron - Nobody Walks
Have read this before (no.587), but was told by someone in my book group that it is new, but it is not – republished in a new imprint in...
Nov 23, 20221 min read
1031. T. L. Mogford - The Plant Hunter
I thought this was a bit silly, although I learned things I didn’t know from it. Like the existence of plant hunters in Victorian...
Nov 9, 20221 min read
1028. Mick Herron - Slow Horses
The first of the Slough House books, which I have read before. Theme is the Pakistani kidnapped, apparently, by the BNP and threatened...
Jul 9, 20221 min read
995. Mick Herron - Bad Actors
This is brilliant. After an uncharacteristically slow start (with the slow horses being lined up and introducing themselves partly with...
May 5, 20221 min read
972. Elif Shafak - The Island Of Missing Trees
This is a wonderful book. Set mainly in Cyprus in the mid-1970s when the country was ripped apart by the Greek/Cypriot civil war, it...
Apr 27, 20221 min read
970. Tricia Cresswell - The Midwife
Very good for a first novel, written by a full time NHS doctor, but better than the last two or three by well established writers....
Mar 4, 20221 min read
952. Hallie Rubenhold - The Five
The first book group book. About the five victims of Jack the Ripper. Not the sort of thing I would normally read. Written by a feminist...
Feb 8, 20221 min read
943. Kate Sawyer - The Stranding
This is very good, and the title a good pun. A conventional middle class girl chooses the wrong partner, and escapes from London to New...
Jan 24, 20221 min read
938. Rachael Blok - Into The Fire
Never heard of this author, either. A well plotted and complex thriller. A group of very disparate people arrive at a mansion in Welwyn...
Jan 22, 20221 min read
937. Jim Eldridge - Murder At The Savoy
Never heard of the author; one of a series set in London during the blitz. Unclear why the central detective has to be an aristocrat...
Sep 29, 20211 min read
899. Ann Granger - The Dead Women Of Deptford
Never heard of the author, but this was very good, and beautifully written. A crime novel, set possibly in Edwardian or late Victorian...