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The 2nd Zoe Boehm. Very good again; I think this guy is a great writer. I found the series of improbable coincidences across the 1st 50...

This guy is brilliant! Re reading almost immediately, so see 535! Get this on Amazon

Obviously the author’s last book, as she died not long after completing it. She says, in an afterword, that she likes writing about the...

I loved this, but she is a much better writer about the complex personal interactions within Three Pines than she is when she tries to...

A BBC book of the week I think not long before we went away. Very good Aussie (although I think JH is English) crime thriller. Set in a...

One of Paddy’s from the library. I loved this (as did she). Romance/thriller set in a seaside north Yorkshire village, starting with a...

Benjamin Black is the non de plume of John Banville, not that I have heard of him either. This is a slightly picaresque quasi-historical...

The 2nd of the Jackson Lamb/Slough House espionage thrillers. This one began much more in spy thriller mode, but that was a deception...

This is a good book but I found it slightly annoying because the plot is structurally very similar to 505 - adult woman drawn back into...

The one about Clara’s search for her missing husband Peter; I was slightly racing through re–reads towards the end of the holiday, should...

The first and I think the best of her books; none of the others are as good. Get this on Amazon

The 5th Aector McAvoy book, and although I think flagged by Richard & July, I thought the weakest. Otherwise as 494!. Get this on Amazon

The 4th book. As 493 above! Get this on Amazon

The 3rd Aector McAvoy novel. On holiday so I didn’t write up book notes every time I finished a book, so I can’t remember much of the...

Short stories, which I may have read before, but bought late night after finishing 484 above. The final one, which is probably a novella,...

Book of the year so far. A brilliant crime novel, quasi-police procedural, set in or near Dublin. Plotting exceptional, writing very good...

This is the one about the super gun that the kid finds in the woods, and not, I think, one of her best. The gun is just a bit improbable,...

I have read this before (no 372), but it is far better on a 2nd reading. There are three plot lines: The murder of the archaeologist...

The book referred to above. I think it is brilliant, but, as I thought before when I first read it, the conclusion left me baffled (or...

I seem to have finished the very good Tom Kell trilogy. This is the first in a (somebody else) series and it is not a promising start. A...