Reviews 

I normally like this guy, but thought this was poor, particularly the first half where the plot was telegraphed from about ½ way through....

A lot more fun than Conrad, despite the title. Block writes a very good story and Matt Scudder is an interesting character. The ending is...

Enjoying these so much, I immediately bought the 3rd Brodie novel (no.335 is the 1st and no.336 the 2nd). This took a bit of time to get...

Nominated for a Theakstons Crime Book of the Year award, this was certainly different, with a good plot, but for me totally let down by...

Haven’t read one of these for years. This is an early book (1959) and surprisingly good. The story is beautifully constructed, as the...

This is the one I had read before; it has a very clever ending, although I found there was too much interior monologue from Adamsberg,...

I loved this, it is dedicated to ‘Lucia, with love and squalor’. Beautifully written/translated (reads as if written in English), the...

Having seen this guy in the library last week, thought I would try some of his other books. This one doesn’t feature Resnick, but another...

Another John Harvey from the library; there are lots. They are well plotted, and one of the interesting aspects is that the narration is...

Read this intermittently; started it before no.249 and no.250 had the libraries imperative. I enjoy Nesser, but really van Veeteren is...

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...

Brilliant. Nesser is really good. This story features Eva Moreno, his only female detective, a sexier version of Siobhan Clarke in Rebus,...

This is the only thing I lost in the crash – a writer I had never heard of before, but branded in some marketing quarters as ‘the...

Needed a bit of a detective, after all that rather literary stuff. I have come to enjoy Ian Rankin rather more second time round,...

Heard the author interviewed on the radio and he sounded like a nice guy. White (I assume) South African crime writer. You need to follow...

L used to be a big fan of James Lee Burke (and James Ellroy), but Burkes’ more recent books seem to me have to become very repetitive...

I picked this up to escape from a dreadful library book by Sophie Hannah called... can’t remember. I have read this before. He is a...

An adaptation of the TV series, a lot of which I had forgotten or missed. Very good, very long (700+ pages) but fast-paced. Although...

Read this as an interlude between my two new books, no.157 & no.159. It is quite good — can’t really make my mind up about Jake Arnott,...

L was reminded of this when I read 'Strange Affair' (no.148) recently. It was the first in the poorly televised series, but it is not...