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Oct 4, 20231 min read
1097. Peter Robinson - Bad Boy
This one follows no.1096, I think, and involves Banks’ daughter Tracy who gets involved with a ‘Bad Boy’. The early bit of the book is...
Jun 18, 20211 min read
870. Ian Rankin - Westwind
This is rather overblown by the publishers ‘the iconic number one bestseller’, ‘the classic lost thriller’. In point of fact, as Rankin...
Jun 24, 20181 min read
605. John Williams - Stoner
Quite a ‘quiet’ book, about the fictional life of an academic who abandons agricultural training (parents being farmers) for literature...
Jun 21, 20181 min read
603. Laura Lippman - Sunburn
Quite formulaic US crime novel, with a very ambiguous villainess. Reminded me a bit of Elmore Leonard and a bit Hitchcock also. But this...
Apr 27, 20181 min read
588. R. J. Ellory - A Quiet Belief In Angels
Have read this before and am not entirely sure what to make of it. A bildungsroman (is that what they are called?), about a boy brought...
Sep 28, 20161 min read
433. Chad Kultgen - The Lie
Pretty good and totally different. Full of pretty lurid sex which however becomes just a motif. Quite like an 18th century novel about...
Apr 17, 20161 min read
393. Robert Campbell - Alice In La-La-Land
Rescued a load of rather low grade thrillers from the attic in a search for other books, as in Simon Raven novels, none of which I could...
Jun 10, 20151 min read
311. Attica Locke - Pleasantville
I wasn’t even aware I had this book – obviously a Radio 4 inspired impulse buy. But very good, even following Ms. Austen. Courtroom drama...
Nov 11, 20141 min read
260. Andrew Rosenheim - The Informant
Not sure what to make of this, or exactly what genre it aspires to. I guess spy thriller. I thought it would compare interestingly with...
Aug 30, 20141 min read
239. R. J. Ellory - A Simple Act Of Violence
Have read this before but it is really good. It is about a huge CIA conspiracy which two CIA members try to uncover by creating an...
Oct 13, 20131 min read
155. Sebastian Faulks - On Green Dolphin Street
The last holiday book. I have read this before but couldn’t remember much. It is a love triangle between Charlie, a washed-out British...
Aug 13, 20121 min read
33. B.A. Morton - Mrs Jones
This is quite a good US cop thriller written, amazingly, by someone who must be someone's Gran and who lives in Northumbria. It has a...
Jul 12, 20121 min read
25. R.J. Ellory - A Quiet Belief In Angels
An early book, I think, very much coming of age/ 'Catcher in the Rye' (have I ever read this?) type of book. The coming of age is...