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Nov 11, 20161 min read
443. Eric Ambler - The Light Of Day
The 2nd of the above books. I hugely enjoyed this for the 1st 80%, but the final element of the plot was very disappointing. The hapless...
Oct 25, 20161 min read
439. Louise Penny - A Great Reckoning
This is also very good; rooted in Three Pines (to which Gamache and his wife have now moved), as all her best books are. Gamache has now...
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...
Jul 18, 20161 min read
418. Louise Penny - A Trick Of Light
Back to a bit of familiarity (no.373 again), although I have somehow accidentally deleted the Louise Penny I want to read from my kindle....
Jun 14, 20161 min read
412. Louise Penny - The Cruelest Month
Running low on books, but this was worth a re-read. The one about the séance in the old Hadley house in Three Pines. Having read it...
Jun 9, 20161 min read
410. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
A pretty good mature Rankin. I have come to enjoy him much more recently. This one I had bought and read quite recently, pretty good on...
May 28, 20161 min read
404. Dan Kavanagh - Duffy
I gather Dan Kavanagh is really Julian Barnes, writing private eye thrillers under this pseudonym. Certainly a fairly salacious page...
May 4, 20161 min read
395. Hideo Yokoyama - Six Four
A huge (+600 pages) book by a Japanese author, the first (of several) translated into English. There were two layers to the plot – a...
Mar 23, 20161 min read
386. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
The 10th and most recently published in the series. I liked the beginning more, when it was firmly rooted in Three Pines. A child...
Feb 13, 20161 min read
377. Peter Robinson - No Cure For Love
It looks as if Robinson has been moonlighting on the other side of the Atlantic; writing this (I assume) for a US audience as it was...
Feb 1, 20161 min read
374. Louise Penny - Still Life
As the madness of 31st January approached, I thought I’d stick with the writer I know and enjoyed and re-read the first book (no.362)...
Jan 29, 20161 min read
373. Louise Penny - A Trick Of The Light
Must be no.7 and another wonderful book; this time about Clara’s eventual success as a painter and the corruption inherent in the art...
Jan 16, 20161 min read
370. Louise Penny - A Brutal Telling
I loved this; I think it is number five in the Three Pines series. Unlike no.366, this is much more localised within Three Pines, so you...
Dec 26, 20151 min read
365. Louise Penny - The Cruelest Month
This is a lot better than Harkin Nasser, although the plot in this one was a bit overloaded as there is a back plot about corruption in...
Sep 7, 20151 min read
335. Kate Atkinson - Case Histories
This is even better; the first in the Jackson Brodie series. Begins with three quite unconnected murders, happening at different times...
Sep 4, 20151 min read
334. Kate Atkinson - One Good Turn
I am obviously becoming a fan. This is another very good book, quite different, a comic private eye novel featuring Jackson Brodie,...
Aug 14, 20151 min read
329. Leonardo Padura - Havana Blue
Read this before (no.262), but rushed through all his books too fast. On re-reading, this strikes me as a fairly simple (and ultimately...
May 28, 20151 min read
306. Ed McBain - Nocturne
A much later book than no.304, and much longer and more ponderous. The central conceit is quite clever (an apparent murder, which...
Feb 27, 20151 min read
285. Ian Rankin - Tooth And Nail
Need something easy to read so picked an early Ian Rankin, which I didn’t remember. Rebus is seconded to London, to help the Met out on a...
Nov 29, 20141 min read
267. Leonardo Padura - Havana Black
Similar, but Mario falls in love in this one and his amorata turns out to be a married woman whose husband is absent and after a brief...