Reviews 

The new Inspector Banks, just published. The wonderful opening chapter (for me); Banks' anxiety about retirement plated out against...

Have read this before but didn’t really enjoy it first time round. Better second time round, but not one of his best. A split plot set...

Haven’t read any Ian Rankin for ages, but revisited the library on a sunny day and found that Rebus had been resurrected. I am not...

Wanted to re-read this as it is the one that precedes 'Bad Boy' and I had forgotten bits of the plot, which is 'Othello' transposed into...

Wanted to re-read this as it precedes no.114 above and i had forgotten bits of the plot, which is Othello transposed into a gay...

Brilliant. Robinson is a bit like a velvet coat; you slip into his prose and feel immediately comfortable with the nuances. I think I...

I had read this before but asked D for it for my birthday last year. Enjoyed it less 2nd time round; Robinson seems a bit mannered (not...

Best holiday read so far. About an English girl who goes to Cambridge pre-WW2 and falls in love with a Russian émigré communist. She is...

This was long and difficult. Much of it was excellent, although I found the lengthy middle section, narrated by a very alcoholic and...

Never read any Harry Potter, this is her first adult book. I thought it was very good: complex, multilayered and multi-class plot about...

The latest. Good but not one of the best. Too many characters are absent. Banks in Tallinn investigating two (of course) closely related...

Never heard of this or the author. Comic story about the northern Irish in London just before the millennium. Boy meets girl, Prod meets...

This is the first Peter Robinson I ever read, not one of his best as the characters haven't matured, but a good story. I had forgotten...

Another one that I had read before and completely forgotten the plot. Two gaps in my memory of the sequence filled: the breakup with...

I had read this before and had always been a bit put off by the fact that (I think) Reginald Hill has written a book with a similar theme...

Kindled this on the assumption that I had read it from the library, but I hadn't. A lot better than no.23) with some excellent plot...

Not one of his best (child abduction theme) but readable. quite an early book; he has improved with time/age. Get this from Waterstones

I loved this perhaps largely in contrast to no.12. Beautifully told 'classic' (dare one say it) English detective story, simple and...

Robinson is probably my favourite crime writer. I hadn't read this for ages and really enjoyed it. I don't know whether I like them so...