Reviews 

A library book from P. I found this difficult to follow until, after finishing, I discovered in the author’s afterword, that it is part...

This is brilliant. The full title is ‘The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels’ and it is brilliantly plotted. Like no.1072 (and little...

Number three in the Thursday Murder Club series. I don’t like these at all, and this was certainly the worst; poorly and predictably...

This was on TV recently, a modern adaptation of a book written in the 1950s, so I thought I would read the book. The adaptation changes...

Re-read this and it is very good. Character and motivation of Claire Treloggan very interesting and challenging. Nothing much to add. Get...

Read this again in anticipation of the book group meeting, which was subsequently cancelled due to covid. It is a very good but very...

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...

Have read this before and actually quite recently, but didn’t recognise it in the library, or indeed remember much of the plot second...

This is pretty good. A contemporary mystery thriller, narrated largely by Kim, the mother of Tallulah, the disappeared girl in question,...

Never heard of this guy, or read anything of his before. 1930’s upper class decadence and sexual depravity meets 1930’s intellectualised...

My favourite author in this genre, so unsurprisingly I have read this before. This is the one where Louisa Guy is contacted by the...

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...

Read this again, as I had a completely rubbishy library book. Much better on a 2nd read as the plot was less opaque, and 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...

I enjoyed this with some caveats. The character of Logan is better portrayed than in no.911 and the impact of his prosopagnosia comes out...

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...

One of P’s. Very strange book – if it reminded me of anything it was Philip Pullman with the parallel world's theme. Or it could be a...

I like Reginald Hill, but his later books do veer into a level of obscurity that I don’t enjoy. If so, this must be a mid-period book, a...

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

I have read this before, I think many years ago and it is very good. Full of quite graphic sex, but a lot better than Shades of Grey. The...