Reviews 

Brilliant. This is the one where his brother is murdered; I have read it before but many years ago. I think there is a ‘middle period’...

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...

A bit of Scandinavian crime pushed in the UK heavily a couple of years ago following the Wallander boom. OK-ish as a story, middle-class...

My Kindle miraculously revived, but I am afraid that this book suffered in comparison with no.122. Rookie cop caught between his job and...

This is a really good book; Mankell is a cut above most thriller writers. It gathers pace, a bit like a lot of films where more attention...

The last one in the series and pretty good. There is a wonderful lawyer whose name I can't remember who speaks I am sure with the authors...

Never heard of this author; she was a New York prosecutor of crimes against women. The sub-plot is based loosely around the Dominic...

I must have read this before in Crete (the bookmark gave it away) but could remember nothing about it. About a serial killer who targets...

Pretty good, again. A book about an absent (for most of the book) criminal, the police spend most of the time looking for a murderer who...

The first Martin Beck novel was written by a Swedish communist husband and wife team in the 1960's. Well dramatised on Radio 4 recently,...

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

Similar to no.41 and although Jessica Daniel's character had developed, I didn't think it was as good (or maybe it was better, but hadn't...

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...

The first in a series of which no.30 above must be the second. The plot is a bit more obvious and the writing is not as good. But quite a...

'Caught' by Amazon's marketing, I paid £1.02 for this. It is actually quite good, writing isn't bad. Hero is a private eye type, normally...

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

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...

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...

I have read this before, but equally good 2nd time round. Fast-paced and with a brilliant plot. Does the Wennerstrom empire appear in the...