Reviews 

The 2nd of the above books. I hugely enjoyed this for the 1st 80%, but the final element of the plot was very disappointing. The hapless...

This is also very good; rooted in Three Pines (to which Gamache and his wife have now moved), as all her best books are. Gamache has now...

This is one of the best, and also in a way most difficult of the books. It is the one I accidentally deleted from my kindle in Spain...

Back to a bit of familiarity (no.373 again), although I have somehow accidentally deleted the Louise Penny I want to read from my kindle....

Running low on books, but this was worth a re-read. The one about the séance in the old Hadley house in Three Pines. Having read it...

A pretty good mature Rankin. I have come to enjoy him much more recently. This one I had bought and read quite recently, pretty good on...

I gather Dan Kavanagh is really Julian Barnes, writing private eye thrillers under this pseudonym. Certainly a fairly salacious page...

A huge (+600 pages) book by a Japanese author, the first (of several) translated into English. There were two layers to the plot – a...

The 10th and most recently published in the series. I liked the beginning more, when it was firmly rooted in Three Pines. A child...

It looks as if Robinson has been moonlighting on the other side of the Atlantic; writing this (I assume) for a US audience as it was...

As the madness of 31st January approached, I thought I’d stick with the writer I know and enjoyed and re-read the first book (no.362)...

Must be no.7 and another wonderful book; this time about Clara’s eventual success as a painter and the corruption inherent in the art...

I loved this; I think it is number five in the Three Pines series. Unlike no.366, this is much more localised within Three Pines, so you...

This is a lot better than Harkin Nasser, although the plot in this one was a bit overloaded as there is a back plot about corruption in...

This is even better; the first in the Jackson Brodie series. Begins with three quite unconnected murders, happening at different times...

I am obviously becoming a fan. This is another very good book, quite different, a comic private eye novel featuring Jackson Brodie,...

Read this before (no.262), but rushed through all his books too fast. On re-reading, this strikes me as a fairly simple (and ultimately...

A much later book than no.304, and much longer and more ponderous. The central conceit is quite clever (an apparent murder, which...

Need something easy to read so picked an early Ian Rankin, which I didn’t remember. Rebus is seconded to London, to help the Met out on a...

Similar, but Mario falls in love in this one and his amorata turns out to be a married woman whose husband is absent and after a brief...