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Jun 3, 20221 min read
985. Dervla McTiernan - The Murder Rule
Better than no.984, but that wasn’t difficult to achieve. Hannah is convinced by her mother’s diaries that her father was murdered and...
Jun 1, 20221 min read
984. Luca D'Andrea - The Wanderer
Probably the worst book I have read for a while; don’t know why I bothered to finish it. Set in North Italy, near the border with Germany...
May 19, 20221 min read
979. Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders
This is incredibly clever, although I think a sequel to Magpie Murders, which is written with the same conceit. You get two books for the...
Apr 9, 20221 min read
965. Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
I didn’t enjoy the first of these, I think called ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. But that is because I didn’t understand the genre. This is...
Apr 3, 20221 min read
963. Daphne Du Maurier - Jamaica Inn
This is quite good. Published in 1936, it is set in Cornwall/Devon sometime I think in Victorian England. Weirdly coincidental to read...
Feb 12, 20221 min read
945. Peter Robinson - Many Rivers To Cross
Thought this was a new one, but I have read it before. Worth a re-read through as Robinson is one of my favourite writers. His scope is...
Jan 21, 20221 min read
936. Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
This is a wonderful book, by an author I have never heard of. The premise is that the brain continues activity for some minutes after...
Jan 1, 20221 min read
929. Peter Hoeg - Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
Read this may years ago, when it first came out. Overlong and should have been edited down, and the plot also over complicated. But...
Dec 23, 20211 min read
926. Reginald Hill - Exit Lines
Along with Ed McBain, Hill is my standby author for ‘going to bed about to finish a book and need something else to start’ as happened on...
Dec 1, 20211 min read
919. Håkan Nesser - The Lonely Ones
Best novel I have read for a while. Beautifully constructed and written. The plot covers a 35 year period from the mid 1970’s to the...
Nov 27, 20211 min read
918. Anne Perry - Three Debts Paid
Not sure I would read any more of these. A Daniel Pitt novel from ‘The New York Times Bestselling Author’. Readable but dull. Set in...
Oct 28, 20211 min read
912. Graham Greene - The Human Factor
One of my favourite of his books, despite my copy having been in the bath some years ago. Thematically, very John le Carré – set possibly...
Oct 24, 20211 min read
911. David Palin - This Changed Everthing
Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...
Oct 15, 20211 min read
907. Anthony Horowitz - A Line To Kill
Horowitz is a very clever writer and this is a clever book. It features a pastiche of Horowitz himself as Dr Watson to Hawthorne’s...
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...
Sep 1, 20211 min read
890. Reginald Hill - Recalled To Life
This is a rollicking good yarn; set initially in the 1960’s around the time of the Profumo scandal involving a murder set in Yorkshire...
Aug 27, 20211 min read
888. Patricia Highsmith - Strangers On A Train
I expected the plot and characters to be more symmetrical, but the two characters who meet on the train and plot parallel murders – Guy,...
Jul 31, 20211 min read
881. William Shakespeare - Hamlet
In anticipation of a trip to the theatre. I don’t read much Shakespeare, but really enjoyed this and found it compact and easy to read....
Jul 11, 20211 min read
876. Tami Hoag - The Boy
Never read any before, but she is obviously a well established author. Despite a slow start, I thought this was very good. Set in the...
Jul 5, 20211 min read
875. Susie Steiner - Persons Unknown
I love Susie Steiner’s 'Manon' book, of which I think this is the 2nd (maybe 3rd) and it is shocking and horrible to hear that she now...