Reviews 

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

I like this writer and hadn’t read one for years, but picked one of which I had no memory, perhaps because it is not that good. Three...

These books are (becoming, for me) a bit repetitive. This (I think) is no.14 and I have missed 13, so bits of plot. The Three Pines...

The return of Jackson Brodie. This was good, but not as rich as some of the previous books; read a bit as if her agent or backers had...

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

A book whose provenance I don’t know; must have been my father’s if the marginal jottings are in his handwriting. Not unlike a Rebus...

McBain is a very good writer and I have lots of his books on the bookcase, which I haven’t read for years. I have wasted a lot of money...

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...

This was well plotted but really it ran into melodrama. My memory of May’s earlier books is of dense plotting, linguistic challenges...

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

Never read any of these before, but very very good. Quasi detective novels set in Tudor England whose heroine/ detective Shardlake is a...

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

Re-read this as a substitute to 650 above, and can’t remember that much about it now, maybe not a recommendation. A series of unrelated...

An Xmas present from Dan, an Icelandic detective/ thriller. The heroine is a semi-retired and slightly superannuated policewoman in...

Wanted a detective story/thriller for a change but this was poor, although the author is quite acclaimed. A real old fashioned ‘who...

Bingeing on Jackson Brodie - this is no.2 and although quite different as good as no.1. Julie is now Jackson’s girlfriend and the action...

If she is so good, better read another. This is no.1 in the series; 628 is the 4th and last to date. This is very good as well; begins...

This last of the Jackson Brodies’ restored my faith in Kate Atkinson after the disappointing 625. This is a brilliant book, clever,...

Running out of books on holiday, found this on my kindle. Never read it before and won’t again. Get this on Amazon