21) The Outcast Dead by Elly Griffiths I really enjoyed The House at Sea's End by Elly Griffiths when I read it last year, and so I turned to another of her novels when I was looking for some undemanding, page-turning fare. And this one delivered in the same way, with the incredibly likeable main… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 21: The Outcast Dead
Category: police procedural
Year 3 / Book 19: Death at La Fenice
19) Death At La Fenice by Donna Leon Donna Leon has been an author I've circled round for a while, but for some reason in my mind I had her pegged in the Tess Gerritsen slasher / thriller type mode. A comment from my friend Sara ("a bit of light and frothy detective fun") helped… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 19: Death at La Fenice
Year 3 / Book 14: The Lady From Zagreb
14) The Lady from Zagreb by Philip Kerr Philip Kerr has become one of my favourite police and crime writers: you cannot go wrong in picking any of his Bernie Gunther stories, and I've been un-chronologically making my way through the whole series. So I was really saddened to learn about his death at the… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 14: The Lady From Zagreb
Year 3 / Book 8: Blue Light Yokohama
8) Blue Light Yokohama by Nicolas Obregon I got this in paperback for Christmas after reading about it a while back. I'm a sucker for novels set in Japan, and even more so for detective novels set in Japan, so this seemed an obvious choice along those lines. Recent reads that stick in my mind… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 8: Blue Light Yokohama
Year 3 / Book 3: Splinter the Silence
3) Splinter the Silence by Val McDermid My resolution to read fewer crime novels made it to the third week, and then I've lapsed. Val McDermid is a safe bet, and the bet gets no safer than a Carol Jordan and Tony Hill novel. If you've read anything involving the duo before, you'll know that… Continue reading Year 3 / Book 3: Splinter the Silence
Year 2 / Book 52: Eleven Days
52) Eleven Days by Stav Sherez Yay, book 52 - book a week for a year done with a few days to spare (and a couple of long train journeys to read on still). And a good one to hit the 52 mark on, as well. I read the first Carrigan and Miller book by… Continue reading Year 2 / Book 52: Eleven Days
Year 2 / Book 49: The Long Drop
49) The Long Drop by Denise Mina This has been recommended in lots of places as one of the best crime novels of the year, and I have to say it lives up to that billing. It has a cleverly structured plot that kind of unwinds slowly, gradually encompassing more characters and viewpoints, with the… Continue reading Year 2 / Book 49: The Long Drop
Year 2 / Book 46-48: Scandi thrillers x 3
Book reviews are running behind the reading at this point, but we are all set to hit a book a week for the year again, just about. I'm grouping these three together under 'Icelandic / frozen North' for obvious reasons... 46) The Shadow District by Arnaldur Indridason I've read almost everything by Indridason in the… Continue reading Year 2 / Book 46-48: Scandi thrillers x 3
Year 2 / Book 45: Night School
45) Night School by Lee Child There are times when only Jack Reacher will do. As the blurb on the back of the book says, “Men want to be him. Women want to be with him.” And who can argue? Probably the best-selling book hero putting aside that child-wizard, this is the 345th (estimate) book… Continue reading Year 2 / Book 45: Night School
Year 2 / Book 44: The Unquiet Dead
44) The Unquiet Dead by Ausma Zehanat Khan I intended this to be a light read, a bit of new police procedural writing to get me through the week. I was interested by the story being set in Canada (makes a nice change from the backstreets of London/an American city) and the writer and protagonist… Continue reading Year 2 / Book 44: The Unquiet Dead
Dog-eared Man: a book a week 