Reviews 

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...

Mistook "good quality crime" on some website for Mills & Boon. Complete tat. Get this on Amazon

Mankell can write, unlike Billingham. This is a short and quite slight book, possibly the first Wallander novel, but Mankell creates...

The 2nd book. I can't get a clear fix on this guy - they're lurid, over violent, with a fairly unlikeable hero, but clever and well...

Conned by Amazon's marketing, but I wanted a cheap thriller, so this is what I bought. Not bad as such - the hero is a Roma ex-cop,...

A very modern thriller, about a couple whose marriage has disintegrated, and he (Nick) may have killed her (Amy) and disposed of the...

I am hooked on these now. Found this one hard to get into initially (no murder, just a clear cut suicide) but so cleverly done that you...

Sounds a bit like a frozen pudding. Elinborg has become a minor character in this one, her boss Erlendur is the major one. He is a rather...

8/10 in the series ( I have just bought 9). The locked room is apparently analogous to a chess puzzle; how has someone been shot dead (in...

Another excellent book in this excellent series. It is hard to characterise what I enjoy in these books; slightly sardonic humour and...

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...

One of P's. Very good part-thriller about sinister goings on at an English boarding school, which all have their origins in the past. Not...

The 2nd book in the series. Wonderful descriptions of Budapest, when Beck sent over there and very much a spy story while he is there...

One of P's library books; she thought it was a thriller, but it isn't. A bit 'chic lit' for me, about small-town life in Saffron Walden,...

Haven't read one of his for ages. Block is a much better writer than many of the cheap and cheerful (?) detective novelists above. His PI...

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...

I hated this; just couldn't get into it at all. Green should have stuck with the tortured Catholic middle-class world that he knew (or...

I loved this perhaps largely in contrast to no.12. Beautifully told 'classic' (dare one say it) English detective story, simple and...

Airplane reading en route for Spain. Not a lot shorter than George Eliot, except on quality. Nesbo seems to be billed as the next Steig...