Reviews 

A Christmas present from Ben. The sort of cheap thriller I used to read a lot of. Quite a clever plot, well-plotted, and very filmic;...

Not as good as some of the others; a thriller of sorts. The central figure Adam Kindred witnesses a murder, is a suspect and finds...

Inspector Montalbano populates BBC4 Saturday evenings in the gaps between big, dark Scandinavian thrillers (or currently Borgen, which is...

A swop with Paddy for no.159. Very different and hard to place genre-wise. Part historical romance, part derring-do adventure, part...

Don’t know where I found this, but I wanted a cheap thriller after William Boyd. Cheap it certainly was; I don’t know why people bother...

This is the third time I have read this book, and I have never fully understood it! The narrator, who is both dis-likeable and probably...

Wanted to re-read this as it is the one that precedes 'Bad Boy' and I had forgotten bits of the plot, which is 'Othello' transposed into...

1st book about Maria Kallio. Character of some interest but plot very cliched; could almost be My First Barbie Doll. Get this from...

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...

Have read this before and was looking for another easy read. Hill usually provides this; he was a clever guy whose books are sometimes...

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,...

I had read this before but asked D for it for my birthday last year. Enjoyed it less 2nd time round; Robinson seems a bit mannered (not...

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

Not one of the better ones; this features Sigindur Oli who is the least likeable of the trio of detectives. Corruption amongst Icelandic...

Didn't enjoy this for reasons I find hard to understand. Some Green is fantastic; others of his do little for me. In theory, I should...

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...

An Xmas present from our next-door neighbors, who are obviously fans (I have never read one before). Fast-paced WW2 thriller; the needle...

Never heard of this author; she was a New York prosecutor of crimes against women. The sub-plot is based loosely around the Dominic...

The 7th and best so far. I like the way they fit different (in this case a very nondescript one) detectives around Martin Beck. A book...