Reviews 

Have read this before but took it as airport aeroplane reading, and as the flight to Stockholm was delayed got through a lot of it. It is...

A virtuoso feat of writing, but maybe not much else? Set in 18th century London, written in an (I assume) genuine working class London...

I think this is the best one yet; the writing, ‘fit’ with the various characters and plotting all excellent. The first chapter and...

The 4th Zoe Boehm book, and the weakest (I am not sure whether he has written any more). By a neat novelistic twist, Zoe doesn’t appear...

One of Paddy’s from the library. I loved this (as did she). Romance/thriller set in a seaside north Yorkshire village, starting with a...

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...

This is a good book but I found it slightly annoying because the plot is structurally very similar to 505 - adult woman drawn back into...

Brilliant. I found this hard to get into initially because it is very much a girl’s book, but after that initial difficulty it was...

The 5th Aector McAvoy book, and although I think flagged by Richard & July, I thought the weakest. Otherwise as 494!. Get this on Amazon

The 4th book. As 493 above! Get this on Amazon

The 3rd Aector McAvoy novel. On holiday so I didn’t write up book notes every time I finished a book, so I can’t remember much of the...

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

A strange book, based among the poor working and criminal class in Modern Cork city. Couldn’t really work out the genre; crimes, but no...

The 3rd of Paddy’s library books, after burn out with Tana French. If 480 was brilliant and 481 execrable, this was middling. The genre...

Not as good as part 1 (464), but he had set the scene then and doesn’t add much to it in Part 2, apart from dropping in various...

I think this guy is also a TV script-writer, but this was very good. Set in the East End post war, a bunch of working class on the...

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

The 2nd of the above books. I hugely enjoyed this for the 1st 80%, but the final element of the plot was very disappointing. The hapless...

Another book from the ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Patrick Neate (or at least his hero) is a Ugandan Asian private eye, living in...

Another attic book. Started this before no.395 as it and the next three were all library books. This was OK, but had a very slow start. A...