Reviews 

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...

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’...

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...

Re-read this and it is very good. Character and motivation of Claire Treloggan very interesting and challenging. Nothing much to add. Get...

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...

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...

Variety of short stories, mostly undistinguished apart from a brilliant Slough House one involving Lamb and the lady in the wheelchair,...

A curious mixture of chick lit and crime, with the chick lit predominant, and all taking place in or around St Albans cathedral. The...

This was pretty low grade, despite being described as ‘reminiscent of Graham Greene’. I don’t think so. A quasi-espionage thriller set...

I love the Alexandria Quartet, but this is a fairly lightweight thriller set in communist-occupied Serbia in the 1950’s. The central...

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...

This is pretty good. A contemporary mystery thriller, narrated largely by Kim, the mother of Tallulah, the disappeared girl in question,...

Never heard of this author, either. A well plotted and complex thriller. A group of very disparate people arrive at a mansion in Welwyn...

Definitely worth another read. A complex and at times bewildering thriller, which is difficult to do justice to without revealing the...

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...

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...

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...

Another fast paced thriller in the Katie Maguire series. These are maybe a bit repetitive, but they really are fast paced, often gruesome...

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...

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...