Reviews 

This is a more conventional Morse novel than no.1072 and I didn’t enjoy it as much. A suburban Oxford street, a murder, several suspects,...

Haven’t read any of these for years, but thought I would read something a bit less contemporary, and this is brilliant (compared to some...

I am not really sure that I like these. The character Ruth is interesting and attractive, but the plotting is weak – a couple of murders,...

This is a good gothic/modern crime novel, about several murders in a school. There are three narrators who intersperse, Clare, a teacher...

I like Ellory, but he seems to be obsessed with the murder of teenage girls (see no.1054). This approaches the same issue from a...

Another Ian Rankin for Edinburgh, although finished this back home. The mid-phase books are a bit similar; this one features mainly...

Bought this in Blackwells in Edinburgh. A Japanese detective novel, published in the late 1950’s and, apparently, never out of print,...

I love this book, although the plot has its incoherences. A very lyrical bildungsroman, but peppered with a series of very gruesome...

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,...

An early Inspector Banks book and a very good, if slightly old fashioned detective novel. A body is found in a field in the North...

Quite enjoyed this. Particularly the opening scenes set in rural Kansas, reminded me of Patrick White on the Australian outback. The plot...

I have enjoyed most of these books, but not this one. The Strike/Robin relationship continues to be well chronicled and on a ‘Will they,...

The fourth (I think) Cormoran Strike book and the best I have read so far. Begins with Robin marrying Matthew (reluctantly) but they have...

Last read this 10 years ago and it remains brilliant. A Cuban ex-Mafia killer tricks the FBI or CIA into listening to his whole life...

I enjoyed this but found the plot frustrating. Linda the narrator and central character is a wonderfully drawn marginal character,...

Possibly the first of the Hawthorne/Horowitz stories, and this one at least had a more coherent plot certainly than no.977, where I don’t...

A curious mixture of chick lit and crime, with the chick lit predominant, and all taking place in or around St Albans cathedral. The...

This is very good. Horowitz fictionalises himself as the writer of Foyles War who also acts as DR Watson to a fictionalised ex-CID...

I read these as fillers, but this one (which I have read before) is really good. A succession of apparently unmotivated murders of young...

I like Ricky Ellory, but this disappointed me. Felt very repetitive and structurally very similar to others; gruesome murder of women, a...