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Jun 9, 20221 min read
988. Mick Herron - Dolphin Junction
Variety of short stories, mostly undistinguished apart from a brilliant Slough House one involving Lamb and the lady in the wheelchair,...
Jan 26, 20221 min read
939. Maxim Jacubowski (Ed) - Daggers Drawn
An anthology of modern crime short stories. Quality quite variable; the best I thought by Denise Mina, about a family with a disturbed...
May 30, 20211 min read
863. Håkan Nesser - Intrigo
I have read a lot of the Inspector Van Veeteren books, but these were five stand alone novellas in which he doesn’t feature. Three have...
Sep 22, 20201 min read
816. John Fowles - The Ebony Tower
Thought I would try another one. This (unless I have totally misunderstood the plotting) was 5 mid/ short length stories, within some...
Jul 1, 20201 min read
795. William Boyd - The Dream Lover
Not generally a fan of short stories, but wanted a bit of a page turner after the longeurs of DHL. These were (mostly) fairly easy to...
May 5, 20171 min read
485. Peter Robinson - The Price Of Love
Short stories, which I may have read before, but bought late night after finishing 484 above. The final one, which is probably a novella,...
Mar 9, 20171 min read
472. Victoria Hislop - Cartes Postales From Greece
This is quite a nice book; beautifully illustrated with post card pictures from Greece. A young bored Londoner begins to receive...