Reviews 

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...

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...

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...

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...

This is quite good. Published in 1936, it is set in Cornwall/Devon sometime I think in Victorian England. Weirdly coincidental to read...

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...

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...

Read this may years ago, when it first came out. Overlong and should have been edited down, and the plot also over complicated. But...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...

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...

Never heard of the author, but this was very good, and beautifully written. A crime novel, set possibly in Edwardian or late Victorian...

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...

I expected the plot and characters to be more symmetrical, but the two characters who meet on the train and plot parallel murders – Guy,...

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....

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...

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...