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Oct 12, 20171 min read
540. Mick Herron - The Last Voice You Hear
The 2nd Zoe Boehm. Very good again; I think this guy is a great writer. I found the series of improbable coincidences across the 1st 50...
Sep 28, 20171 min read
533. Mick Herron - Spook Street
This guy is brilliant! Re reading almost immediately, so see 535! Get this on Amazon
Sep 26, 20171 min read
531. Helen Dunmore - Birdcage Walk
Obviously the author’s last book, as she died not long after completing it. She says, in an afterword, that she likes writing about the...
Sep 19, 20171 min read
525. Louise Penny - Glass Houses
I loved this, but she is a much better writer about the complex personal interactions within Three Pines than she is when she tries to...
Sep 18, 20171 min read
524. Jane Harper - The Dry
A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...
Sep 12, 20171 min read
522. Lisa Jewell - I Found You
One of Paddy’s from the library. I loved this (as did she). Romance/thriller set in a seaside north Yorkshire village, starting with a...
Sep 4, 20171 min read
519. Benjamin Black - Prague Nights
Benjamin Black is the non de plume of John Banville, not that I have heard of him either. This is a slightly picaresque quasi-historical...
Aug 24, 20171 min read
516. Mick Herron - Dead Lions
The 2nd of the Jackson Lamb/Slough House espionage thrillers. This one began much more in spy thriller mode, but that was a deception...
Jul 18, 20171 min read
508. Ruth Ware - The Lying Game
This is a good book but I found it slightly annoying because the plot is structurally very similar to 505 - adult woman drawn back into...
Jun 18, 20171 min read
501. Louise Penny - The Long Way Home
The one about Clara’s search for her missing husband Peter; I was slightly racing through re–reads towards the end of the holiday, should...
Jun 17, 20171 min read
500. Tana French - In The Woods
The first and I think the best of her books; none of the others are as good. Get this on Amazon
Jun 13, 20171 min read
497. David Mark - Dead Pretty
The 5th Aector McAvoy book, and although I think flagged by Richard & July, I thought the weakest. Otherwise as 494!. Get this on Amazon
Jun 7, 20171 min read
494. David Mark - Taking Pity
The 4th book. As 493 above! Get this on Amazon
Jun 6, 20171 min read
493. David Mark - Sorrow Bound
The 3rd Aector McAvoy novel. On holiday so I didn’t write up book notes every time I finished a book, so I can’t remember much of the...
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,...
Feb 26, 20171 min read
470. Tana French - In The Woods (1)
Book of the year so far. A brilliant crime novel, quasi-police procedural, set in or near Dublin. Plotting exceptional, writing very good...
Jan 7, 20171 min read
459. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
This is the one about the super gun that the kid finds in the woods, and not, I think, one of her best. The gun is just a bit improbable,...
Dec 30, 20161 min read
457. Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead
I have read this before (no 372), but it is far better on a 2nd reading. There are three plot lines: The murder of the archaeologist...
Dec 21, 20161 min read
454. Henning Mankell - Kennedy's Brain
The book referred to above. I think it is brilliant, but, as I thought before when I first read it, the conclusion left me baffled (or...
Dec 5, 20161 min read
450. Charles Cumming - A Spy By Nature
I seem to have finished the very good Tom Kell trilogy. This is the first in a (somebody else) series and it is not a promising start. A...