Reviews 

The 3rd Zoe Boehm, and despite the slightly portentous title, this book is imbued with death and jokes about death. More a...

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...

The first in the private eye Zoe Boehm series, although until near the end she appears as a minor character in this book. Completely...

A pre 'Slough House' novella. Begins as a slightly old fashioned Le Carre type spy thriller and gradually introduces some 'Slough House'...

This is a brilliant book; he seems to be really maturing into his Slough house characters, whose subtle and often very funny interactions...

This guy is brilliant! Re reading almost immediately, so see 535! Get this on Amazon

A change from the novels, but this was (I wrote pretty lightweight) but with hindsight I would say execrable. From the hotel library. Get...

Struggled to get into this, but it is a cleverly written portrait, not so much of a psychopath but of a disintegrated marriage which...

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...

Went for another Mick Herron, despite the above. These books do improve all the time. I didn’t fully understand the plot here – which of...

Originally read this (463) in January, as all his books were well reviewed, inter alia, by Ann Cleeves in the Radio Times. There are a...

The 2nd of the Jackson Lamb/Slough House espionage thrillers. This one began much more in spy thriller mode, but that was a deception...

Possibly book of the year so far! An alien descends to earth (or in fact wakes up naked on a motorway near Cambridge) having been sent to...

Symptomatic of being short of reading ideas, buying another by the same author immediately after finishing the first (see David Mark, 491...

A book that P got from the library and was about to return unread. I thought it was wonderful; about war and its miseries; the central...

Triggered by 509; these Victorian (or maybe post in Hardy’s case) novelists are so prolix; 450 pages. The plot wasn’t that similar to...

This is quite a nice book; beautifully illustrated with post card pictures from Greece. A young bored Londoner begins to receive...

I have never heard of the author and can’t make my mind up about the book. The ‘Slow Horses’ are rejects from MI5 (or equivalent) who...

A very clever book, although its cleverness is probably the most striking point. A very mannered traditional ‘Miss Marple’ style novel,...

Rather desperate and protracted (due to flight cancellation) airport reading on the way home. A thriller about inversion in a battered...