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Aug 24, 20171 min read
516. Mick Herron - Dead Lions
The 2nd of the Jackson Lamb/Slough House espionage thrillers. This one began much more in spy thriller mode, but that was a deception...
Aug 1, 20171 min read
510. Ruth Ware - The Woman in Cabin 10
I enjoyed this less than the previous 2 (505 & 508). The plot all seemed a bit clichéd, Agatha Christie-ish. Get this on Amazon
Jun 28, 20171 min read
504. James Lee Burke - Black Cherry Blues
Haven’t read one of these for years. I used to love James Lee Burke, but that was in a different place and this now seems pretty...
Jun 20, 20171 min read
503. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
The first Jackson Brodie novel; this is classy ‘detective’ writing compared to some of those above. As I have read a lot of these before...
Jun 18, 20171 min read
501. Louise Penny - The Long Way Home
The one about Clara’s search for her missing husband Peter; I was slightly racing through re–reads towards the end of the holiday, should...
Jun 17, 20171 min read
500. Tana French - In The Woods
The first and I think the best of her books; none of the others are as good. Get this on Amazon
Jun 15, 20171 min read
499. Hari Kunzru - Gods Without Men
Best book of the holiday. Strange, quite hard work, as I understood it's a book basically about a place in the Nevada desert and it's...
Jun 7, 20171 min read
494. David Mark - Taking Pity
The 4th book. As 493 above! Get this on Amazon
Apr 15, 20171 min read
480. Sabine Durrant - Lie With Me
Rivals 470 for book of the year. An unreliable, pompous and unpleasant narrator believes he has conned a group of friends into funding a...
Mar 21, 20171 min read
475. Tana French - Faithful Place (3)
No.3 in this very good series. All the books are completely different and feature a different lead police character. This one involves...
Mar 15, 20171 min read
474. Tana French - The Likeness (2)
This woman is a fantastic writer. I probably enjoyed this less than 470, but it was still very good, I just found it dragged a little in...
Jan 22, 20171 min read
462. Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders
A very clever book, although its cleverness is probably the most striking point. A very mannered traditional ‘Miss Marple’ style novel,...
Jan 7, 20171 min read
459. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
This is the one about the super gun that the kid finds in the woods, and not, I think, one of her best. The gun is just a bit improbable,...
Dec 30, 20161 min read
457. Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead
I have read this before (no 372), but it is far better on a 2nd reading. There are three plot lines: The murder of the archaeologist...
Dec 21, 20161 min read
454. Henning Mankell - Kennedy's Brain
The book referred to above. I think it is brilliant, but, as I thought before when I first read it, the conclusion left me baffled (or...
Dec 10, 20161 min read
451. Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton
Paul Scott apart, this would I think be my book of the year this year. A library book that Paddy enjoyed, set in post war England. Quite...
Nov 7, 20161 min read
442. Stella Rimington - Close Call
Went to Windsor on Saturday and used my birthday tokens on some spy thrillers recommended on an Andrew Marr BBC program, perhaps because...
Nov 5, 20161 min read
441. Patrick Neate - City Of Tiny Lights
Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...
Oct 16, 20161 min read
438. Louise Penny - A Brutal Telling
This is one of the best, and also in a way most difficult of the books. It is the one I accidentally deleted from my kindle in Spain...
Sep 30, 20161 min read
434. Arnaldur Indridason - The Draining Lake
I quite like this guy; have read this before; it is the one about the Icelandic left wing students who go on a communist sponsored year...