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Sep 7, 20141 min read
242. Håkan Nesser - Hour Of The Wolf
Needed a proper novel, with a plot, after no.241. This has a great plot with apparently quite unrelated deaths (one not a murder) linked...
Jan 31, 20141 min read
180. R. J. Ellory - City Of Lies
I picked this up to escape from a dreadful library book by Sophie Hannah called... can’t remember. I have read this before. He is a...
Oct 5, 20131 min read
151. Cynthia Ozick - Foreign Bodies
A quick pre-holiday read from the library. Not particularly good — a Jewish post WW2 variant on Henry James themes. I think you could say...
Jun 19, 20131 min read
120. Henry James - The Bostonians
By way of contrast, a book I have never read before and a real shock at that. Not a comedy of manners, nor a US/European culture clash as...
Dec 24, 20121 min read
67. Linda Fairstein - Night Watch
Never heard of this author; she was a New York prosecutor of crimes against women. The sub-plot is based loosely around the Dominic...
Sep 21, 20121 min read
44. R.J. Ellory - City Of Lies
Not one of his best, in fact disappointing. A guy who thought his father was dead finds out that he is a New York hoodlum. Lots of people...
Aug 13, 20121 min read
33. B.A. Morton - Mrs Jones
This is quite a good US cop thriller written, amazingly, by someone who must be someone's Gran and who lives in Northumbria. It has a...