Reviews 

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

A virtuoso feat of writing, but maybe not much else? Set in 18th century London, written in an (I assume) genuine working class London...

Never hear of this guy, but found him on a ‘Best Crime Thriller’ website. Opaque, at least to me; an English lawyer, he has written a...

Zola’s first published novel, a bildungsroman about a young man who shares a garret in Paris with a working girl, and cannot decide...

Didn’t plan to read another Zola, but finished no.356 unexpectedly in bed and needed something else to read. Zola is a terribly prolix...

The last (I think) of the Brodie books. I found this the least enjoyable. It was somehow too dense and lacked the lightness of touch of...

Misleadingly packaged as a thriller (which it isn’t) this is the strangest book I've read on holiday. A very weird Japanese novel about...

Found the plot very hard to follow, but probably no more so the ‘The Sound and the Fury' (no.220), although that was billed as difficult....

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...

Despite my mixed response to Greene in this text, I found this one, bent and out of shape from having been read and it appears dropped in...

Much better than no.76, more like no.75. This guy is quite good; original plotting, three quite interesting cops, especially Erlendur,...