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Nov 30, 20161 min read
449. John Le Carré - Call For The Dead
I think this may be his first novel (see 447); I have read it before but always enjoy it. The plot is as described above, although with...
Nov 27, 20161 min read
448. Charles Cumming - A Divided Spy
The 3rd in the Thomas Kell series. This was brilliant; he is a great writer this guy and I am surprised that none of these books has been...
Nov 20, 20161 min read
446. Charles Cumming - A Colder War
The 2nd in the Thomas Kell series. This was weird because I had read the book before, and spent a lot of the time reading it puzzling...
Nov 17, 20161 min read
445. Charles Cumming - A Foreign Country
The first of a series of novels featuring Thomas Kell, a disillusioned and cynical ex MI5 officer, who has been suspended in disgrace...
Nov 13, 20161 min read
444. Charles Cumming - The Hidden Man
The third of the three I bought with the birthday tokens and by far the best. The key point is that this is a good novel, with the spy...
Nov 7, 20161 min read
442. Stella Rimington - Close Call
Went to Windsor on Saturday and used my birthday tokens on some spy thrillers recommended on an Andrew Marr BBC program, perhaps because...
Nov 5, 20161 min read
441. Patrick Neate - City Of Tiny Lights
Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...
Oct 16, 20161 min read
438. Louise Penny - A Brutal Telling
This is one of the best, and also in a way most difficult of the books. It is the one I accidentally deleted from my kindle in Spain...
Oct 11, 20161 min read
437. Peter Robinson - A Dedicated Man
He is a good writer this guy. Despite having read this before, I had no clue ‘whodunnit’ until the last chapter (perhaps a function of my...
Jun 15, 20161 min read
413. Sarah Hilary - Someone Else's Skin
Rather desperate and protracted (due to flight cancellation) airport reading on the way home. A thriller about inversion in a battered...
Jun 14, 20161 min read
412. Louise Penny - The Cruelest Month
Running low on books, but this was worth a re-read. The one about the séance in the old Hadley house in Three Pines. Having read it...
Jun 9, 20161 min read
410. Ian Rankin - Fleshmarket Close
A pretty good mature Rankin. I have come to enjoy him much more recently. This one I had bought and read quite recently, pretty good on...
Jun 8, 20161 min read
409. Simon Kernick - The Crime Trade
Complete rubbish. Get this on Amazon
May 29, 20161 min read
405. Simon Kernick - Relentless
This, I thought, was poorly written, but the terrific pace of the plot made up for that. A man is minding his own business in his garden...
May 21, 20161 min read
401. Joseph Conrad - The Secret Agent
I don’t know when I last read this book, but I thought it was absolutely wonderful this time round. It is quite beautifully constructed;...
May 14, 20161 min read
399. Brian Thompson - Bad To The Bone
I can see why I dumped these books in the attic when the bookcases became over-crowded a few years ago; they’re OK but it is doubtful...
Mar 23, 20161 min read
386. Louise Penny - The Nature Of The Beast
The 10th and most recently published in the series. I liked the beginning more, when it was firmly rooted in Three Pines. A child...
Feb 13, 20161 min read
377. Peter Robinson - No Cure For Love
It looks as if Robinson has been moonlighting on the other side of the Atlantic; writing this (I assume) for a US audience as it was...
Feb 1, 20161 min read
374. Louise Penny - Still Life
As the madness of 31st January approached, I thought I’d stick with the writer I know and enjoyed and re-read the first book (no.362)...
Jan 24, 20161 min read
372. Louise Penny - Bury Your Dead
No.6 in this series and I loved this as well, although it was long and at times difficult. A lot about the history of Quebec, about which...