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Jul 18, 20161 min read
418. Louise Penny - A Trick Of Light
Back to a bit of familiarity (no.373 again), although I have somehow accidentally deleted the Louise Penny I want to read from my kindle....
Jun 3, 20161 min read
407. T.R. Richmond - What She Left
Started this before we left on holiday, but it was a bit difficult, hence 406. Ultra-modern in technique – texts, emails, blog extracts,...
Jun 2, 20161 min read
406. Peter Robinson - The Summer That Never Was
Great airport reading choice; I think one of Robinson’s best. About two dead adolescent boys – 30 years apart, one a schoolfriend of...
May 12, 20161 min read
398. Philip Rosenberg - Tygers Of Wrath
Another attic book. Started this before no.395 as it and the next three were all library books. This was OK, but had a very slow start. A...
May 4, 20161 min read
395. Hideo Yokoyama - Six Four
A huge (+600 pages) book by a Japanese author, the first (of several) translated into English. There were two layers to the plot – a...
Apr 17, 20161 min read
393. Robert Campbell - Alice In La-La-Land
Rescued a load of rather low grade thrillers from the attic in a search for other books, as in Simon Raven novels, none of which I could...
Mar 23, 20161 min read
386. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
The 10th and most recently published in the series. I liked the beginning more, when it was firmly rooted in Three Pines. A child...
Feb 9, 20161 min read
376. Louise Penny - The Beautiful Mystery
I didn’t like this much either; not set in Three Pines but in a monastery where of course there are murderous monks killing each other...
Jan 24, 20161 min read
372. Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead
No.6 in this series and I loved this as well, although it was long and at times difficult. A lot about the history of Quebec, about which...
Jan 16, 20161 min read
370. Louise Penny - A Brutal Telling
I loved this; I think it is number five in the Three Pines series. Unlike no.366, this is much more localised within Three Pines, so you...
Jan 2, 20161 min read
367. Javier Marías - The Infatuations
A library book by a writer I had never heard of; apparently a prominent modern Spanish novelist. The narrator is a very verbose young...
Dec 30, 20151 min read
366. Louise Penny - A Murder Stone
This is the first not centred in Three Pines, and I found it less appealing. A slightly Agatha Christie closed community novel – a...
Dec 19, 20151 min read
363. Louise Penny - Dead Cold
This is much better. Gamache revisits Three Pines for another murder – you could wonder if there are enough inhabitants – so we meet many...
Dec 17, 20151 min read
362. Louise Penny - Still Life
An author I discovered on an online ‘Best recent crime’ list. A very gentle book, set in a village somewhere outside Montreal /Quebec,...
Nov 7, 20151 min read
352. Lawrence Durrell - Balthazar
Book 2 of the Alexandria quartet, which I am beginning to really enjoy. Balthazar overwrites Justine, correcting a lot of misassumptions...
Nov 5, 20151 min read
351. Ray Celestin - The Axeman's Jazz
Lots of books to read at the moment, as I cashed in my Waterstones voucher which D gave me for my birthday. This was shortlisted in some...
Sep 15, 20151 min read
337. Kate Atkinson - Started Early, Took My Dog
The last (I think) of the Brodie books. I found this the least enjoyable. It was somehow too dense and lacked the lightness of touch of...
Sep 7, 20151 min read
335. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
This is even better; the first in the Jackson Brodie series. Begins with three quite unconnected murders, happening at different times...
Aug 21, 20151 min read
331. Ian Rankin - The Naming Of The Dead
Odd experience, as I expected this to be a re-read, but it must have sat, unread, on my book case for years. Siobhan’s parents have never...
Aug 1, 20151 min read
325. Ed McBain - Romance
Needed something lighter, so reverted to a McBain. He is a very good writer; I had forgotten having read a few many years ago. Unusually,...