Reviews 

Really enjoyed this, Robinson back close to his best. Plot involves 2 rather obscure and apparently unrelated deaths, geographically...

These books are (becoming, for me) a bit repetitive. This (I think) is no.14 and I have missed 13, so bits of plot. The Three Pines...

This is the book or novella around which Killing Eve is based. It is pretty much complete junk (although does provide a bit of background...

The only one we had in the house; I had read before but had no memory of it, perhaps a bad omen. I felt quite cheated by this; an...

This was as good as the other 2 (665 & 666 above), and despite my negative comments about e-reading above, you can buy these without...

As Banks says at some point, the title ruins a [reasonably] good Grateful Dead song. The one (which I have read several times before)...

I have read this (and most of Rankin’s books) before, but unlike say Peter Robinson (and Rankin is I think a better writer) the titles...

Well, close on the title. Very much the successor to 663 (which I think you would have to have read first) but, for me, less compelling....

I loved this – book of the year so far. It began with her parachute drop into France in 1942 or 3, and then bounced back into her...

This was well plotted but really it ran into melodrama. My memory of May’s earlier books is of dense plotting, linguistic challenges...

The new Peter Robinson. Structurally not unlike 652 above, in that the killer’s motivation is an event long in the past. Very slow...

Re-read this as a substitute to 650 above, and can’t remember that much about it now, maybe not a recommendation. A series of unrelated...

No coincidence (and no relative I assume) but started re-reading this only for my Kindle to die. So unfinished. Finished this after...

An Xmas present from Dan, an Icelandic detective/ thriller. The heroine is a semi-retired and slightly superannuated policewoman in...

(I think I have got the title right). Quite a slight (although not cheap) book about two sisters and a madman who cons the less...

Wanted a detective story/thriller for a change but this was poor, although the author is quite acclaimed. A real old fashioned ‘who...

Running out of books on holiday, found this on my kindle. Never read it before and won’t again. Get this on Amazon

No.598 which I convinced myself over dinner with Paddy in Korcula was worth re-reading (having re-started it and intending to be...

This was my intended aeroplane read. Have read this before but a long time ago and muddled the plot in my mind with another of his books....

This was very good and well written, but I read it badly and sporadically, and couldn’t follow the conclusion. I am not even sure now who...