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Apr 13, 20231 min read
1057. Ian Rankin - Dead Soul
Very good to read Ian Rankin in Edinburgh, where we now are, as the books are so heavily located here and you can follow the plot...
Jan 13, 20231 min read
1041. Mick Herron - Real Tigers
Can’t remember the titles of all these books (particularly if read on a kindle), but this is the one that starts with Catherine Standish’...
Aug 5, 20221 min read
1002. John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos
This was on TV recently, a modern adaptation of a book written in the 1950s, so I thought I would read the book. The adaptation changes...
Jul 26, 20221 min read
999. David Palin - This Changed Everything
Re-read this and it is very good. Character and motivation of Claire Treloggan very interesting and challenging. Nothing much to add. Get...
Jul 23, 20221 min read
998. Graham Greene - The Power And The Glory
I didn’t enjoy this much, although expected to, after a heavy diet of thrillers. There is a bit in the introduction by John Updike who...
Jul 5, 20221 min read
994. Freya Berry - The Dictator's Wife
I didn’t read this very well – too much good sport on the TV, so only a short read in bed at night. Quite good, but a bit overcomplicated...
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,...
May 25, 20221 min read
981. Rachael Blok - The Fall
A curious mixture of chick lit and crime, with the chick lit predominant, and all taking place in or around St Albans cathedral. The...
May 9, 20221 min read
975. Anne Perry - A Truth To Lie For
This was pretty low grade, despite being described as ‘reminiscent of Graham Greene’. I don’t think so. A quasi-espionage thriller set...
Apr 10, 20221 min read
966. Lawrence Durrell - White Eagles Over Serbia
I love the Alexandria Quartet, but this is a fairly lightweight thriller set in communist-occupied Serbia in the 1950’s. The central...
Apr 9, 20221 min read
965. Richard Osman - The Man Who Died Twice
I didn’t enjoy the first of these, I think called ‘The Thursday Murder Club’. But that is because I didn’t understand the genre. This is...
Feb 15, 20221 min read
946. Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared
This is pretty good. A contemporary mystery thriller, narrated largely by Kim, the mother of Tallulah, the disappeared girl in question,...
Jan 24, 20221 min read
938. Rachael Blok - Into The Fire
Never heard of this author, either. A well plotted and complex thriller. A group of very disparate people arrive at a mansion in Welwyn...
Oct 24, 20211 min read
911. David Palin - This Changed Everthing
Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...
Oct 21, 20211 min read
909. David Palin - This Changed Everything
Didn’t like the title, so not a good start! Very opaque, but quite a good thriller once I had (just about) worked out the plot! Worth...
Oct 5, 20211 min read
902. Reginald Hill - Pictures Of Perfection
I like Reginald Hill, but his later books do veer into a level of obscurity that I don’t enjoy. If so, this must be a mid-period book, a...
Sep 26, 20211 min read
898. Philip Kerr - Prussian Blue
I think I may have read one of his before – a trilogy called 'Berlin Noir', many years ago. This was long and ponderous at times, but a...
Sep 13, 20211 min read
894. Graham Masterson - Buried
Another fast paced thriller in the Katie Maguire series. These are maybe a bit repetitive, but they really are fast paced, often gruesome...
Aug 29, 20211 min read
889. Graham Masterson - The Last Drop Of Blood
Never heard of the author, just grabbed this from the library to read over the bank holiday week-end. And it is really good, probably one...
Aug 21, 20211 min read
886. Charlotte Philby - The Second Woman
I didn’t think much of this; following the plot(s) with all the time shifts was pretty hard work. The third part of a trilogy (might have...