Reviews 

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...

I think I have read one of the Resnick novels before, without really enjoying it. Jon Harvey is coming to speak at our local library in a...

Needed a proper novel, with a plot, after no.241. This has a great plot with apparently quite unrelated deaths (one not a murder) linked...

Our local library is I am sure struggling to survive, so I went in to give it a bit of support. Few decent books though! Anyway another...

The author was recommended to Paddy by her friend Rod Lee. A detective series set in modern Greece; well this one on a tiny island....

The last, I think, or intended last, Rebus. I found this structurally very similar to no.228 initially, with Russian money playing the...

Very good – I have really enjoyed Ian Rankin over the last couple of years; odd because I never used to. Perhaps it was the alcohol. By...

Maybe it is an unfortunate coincidence, but this is just too similar to 'Borkmann’s Point'. Again a killer on an apparently random...

The last of the Nesser’s that I had taken on holiday. This one features Van Veetern pre-retirement, although called from holiday to...

Truly awful, but I needed a bit of a light read and found this in the villa. Kellerman is the worst type of US psycho-crime babble...

Need a quick detective novel after the marathon of no.217... Have read this before but forgotten the middle section where the wrong guy...

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

Inauspicious start, but then read en route to Spain in overnight hotel, then delayed in Gatwick, half asleep on plane and finished in...

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,...

An old detective novel I must have ‘borrowed' from my Dad, as his annotations are evident. Quite well written, but pretty clichéd — a...

Felt as if I had read this quite recently; could index this document somehow. Never really been able to make up my mind about Rebus — I...

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...

Haven’t read a Morse book for years. Dexter does write vigorous, wordy as you would expect, prose, and it is a fast page-turner of a...