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Jun 12, 20141 min read
218. Peter Robinson - Innocent Graves
Need a quick detective novel after the marathon of no.217... Have read this before but forgotten the middle section where the wrong guy...
Jun 5, 20141 min read
214. Håkan Nesser - The Unlucky Lottery
Inauspicious start, but then read en route to Spain in overnight hotel, then delayed in Gatwick, half asleep on plane and finished in...
Apr 17, 20141 min read
200. Peter May - The Blackhouse
This is the first of the Lewis trilogy, no.199 above being the third. Again very good, the same central character (Finn) is not yet an...
Apr 8, 20141 min read
196. Laurence Gough - Death On A No. 8 Hook
An old detective novel I must have ‘borrowed' from my Dad, as his annotations are evident. Quite well written, but pretty clichéd — a...
Mar 26, 20141 min read
191. Keigo Higashino - The Devotion Of Suspect X
Marketed as ‘The Japanese Steig Larsson’, which it isn’t. But it is good - more Conan Doyle than Larsson. Difficult to describe without...
Jan 24, 20141 min read
179. David Hewson - The Killing
An adaptation of the TV series, a lot of which I had forgotten or missed. Very good, very long (700+ pages) but fast-paced. Although...
Jan 2, 20141 min read
173. Paul Ferguson - Killing The Dead
A Christmas present from Ben. The sort of cheap thriller I used to read a lot of. Quite a clever plot, well-plotted, and very filmic;...
Dec 13, 20131 min read
169. William Boyd - Ordinary Thunderstorms
Not as good as some of the others; a thriller of sorts. The central figure Adam Kindred witnesses a murder, is a suspect and finds...
Nov 26, 20131 min read
166. Lawrence Block - Getting Off
This is subtitled 'a novel of sex and violence' which pretty well sums it up. Trouble is that there isn’t a great deal else; there is not...
Nov 3, 20131 min read
160. Robert Ferrigno - Dead Silent
Don’t know where I found this, but I wanted a cheap thriller after William Boyd. Cheap it certainly was; I don’t know why people bother...
Oct 10, 20131 min read
154. Graham Greene - A Burnt-out Case
This is a very strange book. It is about a successful Western Architect who appears to have had enough of everything and gives it all up...
Oct 3, 20131 min read
150. Raymond Chandler - The Big Sleep
I think this is perhaps the first time I have read this book ‘properly’ if that is an appropriate adverb. General Sternwood has a...
Sep 27, 20131 min read
148. Peter Robinson - Strange Affair
Brilliant. This is the one where his brother is murdered; I have read it before but many years ago. I think there is a ‘middle period’...
Sep 4, 20131 min read
141. Denise Mina - Sanctum
This is the third time I have read this book, and I have never fully understood it! The narrator, who is both dis-likeable and probably...
Aug 25, 20131 min read
138. Peter Robinson - Children Of The Revolution
The new Inspector Banks, just published. The wonderful opening chapter (for me); Banks' anxiety about retirement plated out against...
Aug 19, 20131 min read
137. Denise Mina - Exile
The follow-up to 'Garnethill', which I must have enjoyed more than no.134 above indicates. The plot is less personal to Maureen this time...
Aug 12, 20131 min read
136. Noah Hawley - The Good Father
Another of Paddy’s library books. But definitely one of the highlights of the year. About a father & son; the son is arrested for...
Aug 6, 20131 min read
134. Denise Mina - Garnethill
A break perhaps between the Enderby’s. I had read this before, but couldn’t remember a great deal about it. It is quite good, with a...
Jul 26, 20131 min read
130. Peter Robinson - Watching The Dark
Have read this before but didn’t really enjoy it first time round. Better second time round, but not one of his best. A split plot set...
Jul 13, 20131 min read
127. Arnaldur Indridason - Voices
Have read this before but wanted to re-read it. It introduces Erlendur and explicates more of his family history than some of the other...