Reviews 

A great cricket book, first published in 1963, at the end of this Ashes series, about 3 years before I got interested in cricket. Ross...

This is a long and quite complex novel; feels valedictory. Rebus has now retired, Siobhan is older, and the plot involves many of the...

I think this is the first Peter Robinson I ever read years ago and had little memory of the plot. I had forgotten about the lesbian...

Really enjoyed this, Robinson back close to his best. Plot involves 2 rather obscure and apparently unrelated deaths, geographically...

I read this years ago and really enjoyed it, despite relatively low expectations as I remembered most of the plot. But what I had...

As Banks says at some point, the title ruins a [reasonably] good Grateful Dead song. The one (which I have read several times before)...

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...

An early (I think) Rebus novel, pre Siobhan Clarke and Cafferty. This is pretty good - about an up and coming (married) politician caught...

The new Peter Robinson. Structurally not unlike 652 above, in that the killer’s motivation is an event long in the past. Very slow...

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....

Another of my favourite crime writers, although Robinson is more conventional and formulaic than Herron or Ellory. Robinson strikes me as...

Read this when my kindle died, mid week. An early novel, but actually very good. Three plot lines, murder, at least manslaughter of an...

Short stories, which I may have read before, but bought late night after finishing 484 above. The final one, which is probably a novella,...

The new Banks novel, based (topically) on Jimmy Saville (the newly promoted Banks investigates and Winsome) and grooming white working...

The best book of erotica I have ever read. Serious sado-machocism, although overwritten in rather florid prose at times. Surprisingly...

Read this, untypically, in parallel with 460 above. I have enjoyed Rankin recently but found this a little low grade and predictable,...

Went to Windsor on Saturday and used my birthday tokens on some spy thrillers recommended on an Andrew Marr BBC program, perhaps because...

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...

This is number six in the series, and the only other one we have after no.392. So a lot of plot has flowed under the bridge. Fielding...

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...