Reviews 

Another of my favourite crime writers, although Robinson is more conventional and formulaic than Herron or Ellory. Robinson strikes me as...

Ellory is possibly my 2nd favourite thriller writer, unlike Herron which has bits of the best of Dickens and Le Carre, Ellory is an...

Book of the holiday, so far! Despite her peripheral involvement in the actual scandal (a married school-mistress' affair with a male...

Airport, aeroplane reading en route to Malaga. Same book as no.1, 6 years ago. Very clever plotting, probably Hill and the Daziel novels...

The 2nd long library book in 4 days. This one was much better written than the last, although I was disappointed by the ending. A woman...

Tried to read 2 other books this week but gave up and went to the library. This is a very poor quality book, although it is fast paced....

I didn’t enjoy 'The Trouble with Goats and Sheep' (her first book) but this was much better. A thriller about dementia, which is a clever...

I quite like Josephine Tey, although this book had its longeurs. But it is well written and readable. The plot involves an elderly mother...

Have read this before and am not entirely sure what to make of it. A bildungsroman (is that what they are called?), about a boy brought...

Another book written on the periphery of Slough House, some of whose characters we meet and learn both JK Coe’s first names, the origin...

This was clever and perhaps one of the first (? I have no idea) books to debunk conventional historical knowledge; no that is not right...

Never read any of her books, but heard them recommended on the radio. I thought this was very good, beautifully written, clever plotting...

I have read this before with little memory of it, but would say it is the best of 2018 so far. Really clever plotting, looks like a...

I think this is the 3rd time I have read this, the first book in the series. Finished 568 above, couldn’t sleep and needed a kindle book...

Always a bad idea this, to binge read writers you have discovered and enjoy. This one is quite good but the plot is very monothematic -...

A rare trip to the library on Saturday. This is extremely good and he has written a few more. A sort of modern Japanese Miss Marple....

This is the book I meant to read, a domestic spy story, but very good. Maurice Castle is a minor functionary in the security services in...

I thought this was very good. A thriller, gay female love story/ romance. A young girl Nadine is moved into a Bristol flat by her...

The 4th Zoe Boehm book, and the weakest (I am not sure whether he has written any more). By a neat novelistic twist, Zoe doesn’t appear...

The 3rd Zoe Boehm, and despite the slightly portentous title, this book is imbued with death and jokes about death. More a...