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Aug 3, 20191 min read
701. Peter Robinson - Careless Love
Really enjoyed this, Robinson back close to his best. Plot involves 2 rather obscure and apparently unrelated deaths, geographically...
Jul 12, 20191 min read
695. Louise Penny - Kingdom Of The Blind
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...
May 22, 20191 min read
685. Luke Jennings - Codename Villanelle
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...
May 11, 20191 min read
681. Ian McEwan - Sweet Tooth
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...
Apr 13, 20191 min read
677. Simon Mawer - Prague Spring
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...
Apr 5, 20191 min read
673. Peter Robinson - Friend Of The Devil
As Banks says at some point, the title ruins a [reasonably] good Grateful Dead song. The one (which I have read several times before)...
Mar 30, 20191 min read
671. Ian Rankin - Tooth And Nail
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...
Mar 11, 20191 min read
666. Simon Mawer - Tightrope
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....
Mar 7, 20191 min read
665. Simon Mawer - The Girl Who Fell From The Sky
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...
Feb 17, 20191 min read
660. Peter May - I'll Keep You Safe
This was well plotted but really it ran into melodrama. My memory of May’s earlier books is of dense plotting, linguistic challenges...
Jan 20, 20191 min read
652. Peter Robinson - Sleeping In The Ground
The new Peter Robinson. Structurally not unlike 652 above, in that the killer’s motivation is an event long in the past. Very slow...
Jan 13, 20191 min read
651. Reginald Hill - A Killing Kindness
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...
Jan 12, 20191 min read
650. Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed
No coincidence (and no relative I assume) but started re-reading this only for my Kindle to die. So unfinished. Finished this after...
Jan 7, 20191 min read
648. Ragnar Jónasson - The Darkness
An Xmas present from Dan, an Icelandic detective/ thriller. The heroine is a semi-retired and slightly superannuated policewoman in...
Nov 14, 20181 min read
640. Mick Herron - This Is What Happened
(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...
Nov 5, 20181 min read
637. Alice LaPlante - A Circle Of Wives
Wanted a detective story/thriller for a change but this was poor, although the author is quite acclaimed. A real old fashioned ‘who...
Sep 22, 20181 min read
627. Jay Stringer - Runaway Town
Running out of books on holiday, found this on my kindle. Never read it before and won’t again. Get this on Amazon
Sep 21, 20181 min read
626. Sarah Vaughan - Anatomy Of A Scandal
No.598 which I convinced myself over dinner with Paddy in Korcula was worth re-reading (having re-started it and intending to be...
Sep 17, 20181 min read
624. Ian Rankin - The Naming Of The Dead
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....
Aug 31, 20181 min read
620. Reginald Hill - On Beulah Height
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...