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Oct 26, 20231 min read
1100. Adele Parks - Just Between Us
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...
Jul 22, 20231 min read
1080. Janice Hallett - Alperton Angels
This is brilliant. The full title is ‘The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels’ and it is brilliantly plotted. Like no.1072 (and little...
Oct 15, 20221 min read
1021. Richard Osman - The Bullet That Missed
Number three in the Thursday Murder Club series. I don’t like these at all, and this was certainly the worst; poorly and predictably...
Aug 5, 20221 min read
1002. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
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...
Jul 26, 20221 min read
999. David Palin - This Changed Everything
Re-read this and it is very good. Character and motivation of Claire Treloggan very interesting and challenging. Nothing much to add. Get...
Jun 29, 20221 min read
993. Janice Hallett - The Twyford Code
Read this again in anticipation of the book group meeting, which was subsequently cancelled due to covid. It is a very good but very...
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...
May 12, 20221 min read
977. Anthony Horowitz - A Line To Kill
Have read this before and actually quite recently, but didn’t recognise it in the library, or indeed remember much of the plot second...
Feb 15, 20221 min read
946. Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared
This is pretty good. A contemporary mystery thriller, narrated largely by Kim, the mother of Tallulah, the disappeared girl in question,...
Jan 9, 20221 min read
932. Martin Edwards - Mortmain Hall
Never heard of this guy, or read anything of his before. 1930’s upper class decadence and sexual depravity meets 1930’s intellectualised...
Dec 25, 20211 min read
927. Mick Herron - Joe Country
My favourite author in this genre, so unsurprisingly I have read this before. This is the one where Louisa Guy is contacted by the...
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 21, 20211 min read
925. David Palin - The Armistice Killer
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...
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...
Nov 3, 20211 min read
913. David Palin - The Armistice Killer
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...
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...
Oct 13, 20211 min read
905. Susanna Clarke - Piranesi
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...
Oct 5, 20211 min read
902. Reginald Hill - Pictures Of Perfection
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...
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,...
Feb 4, 20211 min read
846. Susanna Moore - In The Cut
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...