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Apr 13, 20181 min read
586. Josephine Tey - The Daughter Of Time
This was clever and perhaps one of the first (? I have no idea) books to debunk conventional historical knowledge; no that is not right...
Apr 8, 20181 min read
584. Josephine Tey - To Love And Be Wise
Never read any of her books, but heard them recommended on the radio. I thought this was very good, beautifully written, clever plotting...
Mar 25, 20181 min read
581. R. J. Ellory - A Simple Act Of Violence
I have read this before with little memory of it, but would say it is the best of 2018 so far. Really clever plotting, looks like a...
Jan 27, 20181 min read
569. Louise Penny - Still Life
I think this is the 3rd time I have read this, the first book in the series. Finished 568 above, couldn’t sleep and needed a kindle book...
Dec 24, 20171 min read
561. Keigo Higashino - The Devotion Of Suspect X
I’d have enjoyed this much more on kindle had I realised that there was a paperback copy of my bookcase! I realised, mid-way through page...
Nov 29, 20171 min read
553. Jane Harper - Force Of Nature
The 2nd novel, I think, by the author of ‘The Dry’, no 524. With hindsight, I think that book may have been slightly over-hyped; this was...
Sep 15, 20171 min read
523. Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed
Wanted to re-read no. 488 to better understand the back-plot to 521. Fly (the adopted son) appears, but the sister and her baby only...
Sep 9, 20171 min read
521. Susie Steiner - Persons Unknown
What a contrast to Joanna Trollope. The 2nd book in what I hope will become the Manon series, about a policewoman in Huntingdon. (488 was...
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 2, 20171 min read
491. David Mark - Original Skin
Did indeed! This guy is very good, and these are high class police procedurals, with a good variety of police colleagues of McAvoy, who...
May 27, 20171 min read
489. Peter Robinson - Gallows View
Read this when my kindle died, mid week. An early novel, but actually very good. Three plot lines, murder, at least manslaughter of an...
May 27, 20171 min read
490. David Mark - Dark Winter
The kindle book that briefly died. The first in another series of detective/procedural novels, this time featuring DS Aector McAvoy, and...
May 20, 20171 min read
488. Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed
Brilliant new book, brilliant new author. Very cleverly plotted although the phrase from The 4 Quartets at the beginning rather gives...
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...
Feb 26, 20171 min read
470. Tana French - In The Woods (1)
Book of the year so far. A brilliant crime novel, quasi-police procedural, set in or near Dublin. Plotting exceptional, writing very good...
Feb 12, 20171 min read
467. G. F. Newman - The Corrupted Part 2
Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...
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,...
Jan 1, 20171 min read
458. Louise Penny - How The Light Gets In
This (which I have also read before) is as good as 457, although with only 2 plot lines. The story of the amazing quins and Continuation...