List of book reviews since I started to write about books in April 2007, in alphabetical order by author. Clicking on the titles will take you to my reviews. My aim is to write something about each book even if it’s just a few lines, so some of the posts are less detailed than others/part of composite posts.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
AALTO, Kathryn: Writing Wild
AARONOVITCH, Ben:
Rivers of London series
- Rivers of London (1)
- Moon Over Soho (2)
ABBOTT, Rachel: Come a Little Closer
ACHEBE, Chinua: No Longer at Ease
ACKROYD, Peter:
ADAMS, Poppy: The Behaviour of Moths
ADAMS, Richard: The Day Gone By: an Autobiography
ADICHIE, Chimamanda Ngozi:
ALAIN-FOURNIER: Le Grand Meaulnes
ALCOTT, Louisa May: Little Women
ALEXANDER, V S: Her Hidden Life
ALISON, Rosie: The Very Thought of You
ALLEN, Sarah Addison: Garden Spells
ALLENDE, Isabel: Portrait in Sepia
ALLINGHAM, Margery: Tiger in the Smoke
ALLINGHAM, Merryn:
ARBUTHNOTT, George: Failures of State
ARCHER, Jeffrey: Nothing Ventured
ARLIDGE, M J: Down to the Woods
ARMSTRONG, Terri: Standing Water
ARNOTT, Paul: Is Anybody Up There?
ARTHERN, Michael: Mountains on the Moon
ATHILL, Diana:
ATKINSON, Kate:
ATWOOD, Margaret: The Robber Bride
AUSTEN, Jane:
AUSTER, Paul:
BAINBRIDGE, Beryl:
- Another Part of the Wood
- An Awfully Big Adventure
- The Birthday Boys
- The Bottle Factory Outing
- The Dressmaker
- Harriet Said
- A Quiet Life
- Sweet William
BALDACCI, David: The Christmas Train
BAKER, John: King of the Streets
BANKS, Iain: The Quarry
BARBERY, Muriel: The Gourmet
BARNES, Julian:
BARR, Niall: Flodden
BARRY, Sebastian:
BAUER, Belinda:
BEARD, Mary: SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
BEATON, M C:
BECKETT, Andy: When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies
BELL, Natasha: This Nowhere Place
BELLE, Kimberley: The Marriage Lie
BENNETT, Alan:
BENNETT, Vanora:
BENSON, E F: Queen Lucia
BINCHY, Maeve: The Builders
BINGHAM, Harry: Talking to the Dead
BLACK, Benjamin: Vengeance
BLAKE, Davina: Past Encounters
BLAKE, Nicholas:
BLEEKER, Emily: Wreckage
BLOOD, Alan S: Once Upon a Castle
BOLITHO, Janie:
BOLTON, Sharon
Standalones:
Lacey Flint series
- Now You See Me (Lacey Flint 1)
- Dead Scared (Lacey Flint 2)
- Like This, For Ever (Lacey Flint 3)
- A Dark and Twisted Tide (Lacey Flint 4)
BORODIN, Leonid: The Year of Miracle and Grief
BOX, C J: Blue Heaven
BOYLE, Mark: The Way Home
BRADBURY, Ray: Now and Forever (Somewhere a Band is Playing, Leviathan ’99)
BRAGG, Melvyn:
BRANDRETH, Giles: Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders
BRAUN, Lilian Jackson: The Cat Who Could Read Backwards
BRETT, Simon:
- Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King’s Daughter
- The Body on the Beach
- The Hanging in the Hotel
- Murder in the Museum
- The Stabbing in the Stables
BRITTAIN, Vera: Testament of Youth
BRITTNEY, Lynn: Christine Kringle
BROCKMEIER, Kevin: The Brief History of the Dead
BRODRICK, William:
- The Day of the Lie (Father Anselm 4)
- The Discourtesy of Death (Father Anselm 5)
- The Gardens of the Dead (Father Anselm 2)
- The Sixth Lamentation (Father Anselm 1)
- A Whispered Name (Father Anselm 3)
BRODY, Frances:
- Dying in the Wool (Kate Shackleton mystery 1)
- A Medal for Murder (Kate Shackleton mystery 2)
- A Death in the Dales (Kate Shackleton mystery 7)
- A Snapshot of Murder (Kate Shackleton mystery 10)
BRONTE, Anne: Agnes Grey
BRONTE, Emily: Wuthering Heights
BROOKMYRE, Christopher:
BROOKS, Geraldine: People of the Book
BROWN, Dan: The Lost Symbol
BRYSON, Bill:
BUCHAN, John:
- The Thirty-Nine Steps (Richard Hannay series 1)
- Greenmantle (Richard Hannay series 2)
- The Power-House
BUCHANAN, Tracy: The Family Secret
BUDE, John:
BUGAN, Carmen: Burying the Typewriter:Childhood Under the Eye of the Secret Police
BURKE, Bob: The Third Pig Detective Agency
BURLEY, W J:
Wycliffe series
- Wycliffe and How to Kill a Cat (2)
- Wycliffe in Paul’s Court (9)
- Wycliffe and the Four Jacks (12)
- Wycliffe and the Quiet Virgin (13)
- Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death (16)
- Wycliffe and the Last Rites (18)
- Wycliffe and the House of Fear (20)
BURNETT, Frances Hodgson: The Secret Garden
BURTON, Miles:
BUSSI, Michel: Time is a Killer
CADE, Jared: Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
CAIN, Susan: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
CALLAHAN, Patti: Becoming Mrs Lewis
CALVERT, Jonathan: Failures of State
CAMILLERI, Andrea: Excursion to Tindari
CAREY, Peter: Theft
CARLIN, Laura: The Wicked Cometh
CARR, John Dickson: He Who Whispers
CARR, J L: A Month in the Country
CASEY, Jane:
Maeve Kerrigan series:
- The Burning (1)
- The Reckoning (2)
- The Last Girl (3)
- The Stranger You Know (4)
- The Kill (5)
- After the Fire (6)
- Let the Dead Speak (7)
- Cruel Acts (8)
- The Cutting Place (9)
- The Close (10)
Standalone:
CATHER, Willa:
CATTON, Eleanor: The Luminaries
CECIL, Henry: Much in Evidence
CEDER, Camilla: Frozen Moment
CEP, Casey: Furious Hours
CHANDLER, Raymond: The Big Sleep
CHANG, Jung: Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China see also this post
CHARLES, Janet Skeslien: The Paris Library
CHARLTON, Karen:
CHATWIN, Bruce:
CHEVALIER, Tracy:
CHILD, Lee: The Midnight Line
CHINN, Adrienne: The Lost Letter from Morocco
CHRISTIE, Agatha
- The ABC Murders
- Absent in the Spring (writing as Mary Westmacott)
- The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding (short stories)
- After the Funeral
- And Then There Were None
- Appointment with Death (Poirot)
- At Bertram’s Hotel (Miss Marple)
- An Autobiography
- The Big Four (Poirot)
- The Body in the Library
- By the Pricking of My Thumbs
- Cards on the Table
- A Caribbean Mystery
- Cat Among the Pigeons
- The Clocks
- Come, Tell Me How You Live
- The Crooked House
- Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case
- Dead Man’s Folly
- Death Comes as the End
- Death in the Clouds
- Death on the Nile
- Destination Unknown
- Dumb Witness
- Elephants Can Remember
- Endless Night
- Evil Under the Sun
- Five Little Pigs (Poirot)
- 4.50 from Paddington
- Hallowe’en Party
- Hercule Poirot’s Christmas
- Hickory Dickory Dock
- The Hollow
- The Hound of Death (short stories)
- The Labours of Hercules
- Lord Edgware Dies
- The Man in the Brown Suit
- The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side
- Mrs McGinty’s Dead
- The Moving Finger (Miss Marple)
- The Murder at the Vicarage (Miss Marple)
- Murder in Mesopotamia
- Murder in the Mews (Poirot 4 short stories)
- A Murder is Announced (Miss Marple)
- Murder is Easy
- The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
- The Murder on the Links
- Murder on the Orient Express
- The Mysterious Affair at Styles
- The Mysterious Mr Quin
- The Mystery of the Blue Train
- N or M? (Tommy and Tuppence 3)
- Nemesis (Miss Marple)
- One, Two Buckle My Shoe
- Ordeal by Innocence
- The Pale Horse
- Passenger to Frankfurt
- Peril at End House
- Postern of Fate (Tommy and Tuppence 4)
- Sad Cypress (Poirot)
- The Secret Adversary (Tommy & Tuppence 1)
- The Secret of Chimneys (Superintendent Battle)
- The Sittaford Mystery (Inspector Narracott)
- Sleeping Murder: Miss Marple’ Last Case
- Sparkling Cyanide
- Taken at the Flood
- Ten Little Niggers
- They Came to Baghdad
- They Do It With Mirrors
- Third Girl (Poirot)
- The Thirteen Problems (short stories)
- Three Act Tragedy (Poirot & Mr Satterthwaite)
- Towards Zero (Supt. Battle)
- Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?
CHURCHILL, Winston S : Painting as a Pastime
CLAPP, Susannah: A Card from Angela Carter
CLARE, Alys: A Rustle of Silk
CLARK, Susanna: The Ladies of Grace Adieu
CLARKE, Rachel: Breathtaking
CLEEVES, Ann:
Stand-a-lone books:
Shetland Series:
- Raven Black (Shetland series 1)
- White Nights (Shetland series 2)
- Red Bones (Shetland series 3)
- Blue Lightning (Shetland series 4)
- Dead Water (Shetland series 5)
- Thin Air (Shetland series 6) (short post)
- Cold Earth (Shetland series 7)
Vera Stanhope series:
- The Crow Trap (Vera 1)
- Silent Voices (Vera 4)
- The Glass Room (Vera 5)
- Harbour Street (Vera 6)
- The Moth Catcher (Vera 7) – just a note
- The Seagull (Vera 8)
- The Darkest Evening (Vera 9)
- The Rising Tide (Vera 10)
CLEMENTS, Rory:
- Corpus (Tom Wilde 1)
- Nucleus (Tom Wilde 2)
- Hitler’s Secret (Tom Wilde 4)
- The Man in the Bunker (Tom Wilde 6)
COBEN, Harlan:
COE, Jonathan:
COELHO, Paulo:
COHEN, Morton N: Lewis Carroll: a biography
COLEGATE, Isabel: The Shooting Party
COLLINS, Wilkie:
COMYNS, Barbara: Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
CONNELLY, Victoria: A Weekend with Mr Darcy
CONNOLLY, John: The Book of Lost Things
CONRAD, Joseph: Heart of Darkness
COOPER, Catherine: The Chalet
COOPER, Edmund: The Uncertain Midnight
CORNICK, Nicola:
CORNWELL, Bernard: Fools and Mortals
CORNWELL, Patricia: Cause of Death
COXON, Tricia: The Stroke Ward
CRAIG, Angela: Hearts and Minds
CROFTS, Freeman Wills:
CUMMINGS, Susan: Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman
CUSK, Rachel:
- Arlington Park
- The Bradshaw Variations
- Second Place
DAI Randel, Weina: The Last Rose of Shanghai
DALLADAY, Jill: The Abbess of Whitby: a novel of Hild of Northumbria
DANA, Maggie: Beachcombing
DAUGHERTY, Christi: A Beautiful Corpse
DAVIDSON, Andrew: The Gargoyle
DAVIES, David Stuart: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Promise
DEAKIN, Roger: Wildwood: a Journey Through Trees
DELANEY, Frank: The Matchmaker of Kenmare
DELILLO, Don: White Noise
DELORME, Mary: St Bartholomew’s Man
DEMPSEY, Eoin: White Rose, Black Forest
DEXTER, Colin:
- Last Seen Wearing (Morse 2)
- The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn (Morse 3)
- Service of All the Dead (Morse 4)
- The Dead of Jericho (Morse 5)
- The Wench is Dead (Morse 8)
- The Way Through The Woods (Morse 10)
- The Remorseful Day(Morse 13)
DICKENS, Charles:
- Barnaby Rudge
- David Copperfield
- The Holly-Tree Inn
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- The Old Curiosity Shop
- Oliver Twist
- Our Mutual Friend
DICKINSON, Peter: The Ropemaker
DILLARD, Annie: The Maytrees
DINES, Adrienne: The Jigsaw Maker
DINSDALE, Robert: The Toymakers
DISKI, Jenny: On Trying to Keep Still
DOERR, Anthony: All the Light We Cannot See
DOUGHTY, Louise: Whatever You Love
DOUGLAS, Claire:
DOUGLAS-HOME, Mark:
The Sea Detective
- The Sea Detective (1)
- The Woman Who Walked into the Sea (2)
- The Malice of Waves (3)
- The Driftwood Girls (4)
DOYLE, Sir Arthur Conan:
DRABBLE, Margaret:
Dumas, Alexandre: The Count of Monte Cristo
DU MAURIER, Daphne:
- The Breaking Point: short stories
- Castle Dor
- The Flight of the Falcon
- The House on the Strand
- Julius
- My Cousin Rachel
- The Parasites
- Rebecca and see also here
- The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories
- The Rendezvous and other stories
DUNCAN, Dennis: Index, A History of
DUNMORE, Helen: Birdcage Walk
DUNN, Carola:
- Death at Wentwater Court (Daisy Dalrymple 1)
- The Winter Garden Mystery (Daisy Dalrymple 2)
- Requiem for a Mezzo (Daisy Darylmple 3)
- Styx and Stones (Daisy Dalrymple 7)
DUNN, Suzannah: The Sixth Wife
EASTLAND, Sam: The Red Coffin
EDWARDS, Martin:
The Lake District Mystery series:
- The Coffin Trail
- The Cipher Garden
- The Arsenic Labyrinth
- The Serpent Pool
- The Hanging Wood
- The Frozen Shroud
Rachel Savernake series:
Harry Devlin series
Other books:
- Guilty Consciences (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
- Take My Breath Away (a legal mystery featuring lawyer turned writer Nic Gabriel)
- The Golden Age of Murder
- Foreign Bodies (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
- Miraculous Mysteries (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
- Blood on the Tracks (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
- The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (short story collection edited by Martin Edwards)
EDWARDS, Yvvette: A Cupboard Full of Coats
EKLOF, Jacob: The Darkness Manifesto
ELIOT, George:
ELLIS, Bella:
The Bronte Mysteries:
- The Vanished Bride (1)
- The Diabolical Bones (2)
- The Red Monarch (3)
ELLIS, Kate: The Shroud Maker
ENQUIST, Anna:
ERSKINE, Barbara:
EVANS, Harriet: A Place For Us
EVANS, Margiad: Country Dance
EWAN, Chris: The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam
FALCONER, Julius: A Fearful Madness
FAULKS, Sebastian:
FAVIELL, Frances: The Dancing Bear
FEENEY, Alice:
FEITO, Virginia: Mrs March
FERGUSON, Kitty: Stephen Hawking His life and Work
FERGUSON, Niall: The Square and the Tower
FERMOR, Patrick Leigh: A Time of Gifts
FIENNES, William: The Music Room
FINE, Anne: All Bones and Lies
FIORATA, Marina: The Madonna of the Almonds
FLEMING, Ian: Diamonds Are Forever
FODEN, Giles: Turbulence
FOLEY, Lucy: The Book of Lost and Found
FOLLETT, Ken: The Pillars of the Earth
FORD, Jamie: Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
FORSTER, E M: A Room with a View
FORSTER, Margaret:
FRANKLIN, Ariana:
FRASER, Antonia: A Splash of Red
FRASER, George MacDonald: The Steel Bonnets: the Story of the Anglo-Scottish Border Reivers
FREAR, Caz:
FREESE, Mathias: Down to a Sunless Sea
FRENCH, Nicci:
FRENCH, Tana:
FULLERTON, Jackie: Revenge Served Cold
FYFIELD, Francis: The Art of Drowning
GAIMAN, Neil: The Graveyard Book
GALBRAITH, Robert: The Cuckoo’s Calling
GALE. Partrick:
GALLICO, Paul: Mrs Harris Goes to Moscow
GAPPAH, Petina: An Elegy for Easterly
GARDAM, Jane:
GARDNER, Erle Stanley:
- The Case of the Curious Bride
- The Case of the Howling Dog
- The Case of the Lame Canary
- The Case of the Substitute Face
GARFIELD, Simon: Timekeepers
GARNER, Alan: The Owl Service
GARNER, Helen: The Spare Room
GASKELL, Elizabeth:
- Cranford see also here, here and here
- Wives and Daughters
GEE, Maggie: My Cleaner
GERAS, Adele: Made in Heaven
GIBBONS, Stella: Westwood
GIFFORD, Elisabeth: The Lost Lights of St Kilda
GILBERT, Elizabeth: Eat, Pray, Love see also here and here and here
GILBERT, Michael:
GILLARD, Linda:
GIONO, Jean: The Man Who Planted Trees
GLASFURD, Guinevere: The Year Without Summer
GLAZEBROOK, Olivia: The Frank Business
GOLDACRE, Ben: Bad Science
GOLDING, William: Lord of the Flies
GOLDSWORTHY, Adrian: Vindolanda
GORDON-SMITH, Dolores: The Chapel in the Woods
GORING, Rosemary:
GNUSE, A J: Girl in the Walls
GRAFTON, Sue: A is for Alibi
GRAHAM, Caroline: Faithful Unto Death
GRAHAM, Eliza:
GRANDIN, Temple: The Autistic Brain
GRANT, Linda:
GREEN, Anna Katherine: X, Y, Z
GREENE, Graham:
GRENVILLE, Kate:
- The Idea of Perfection
- One Life: My Mother’s Story (biography)
- A Room Made of Leaves
- Sarah Thornhill
- Searching for The Secret River (non fiction)
- The Secret River
GRIFFITHS, Elly:
Ruth Galloway series
- The Crossing Places (Ruth Galloway 1)
- The Janus Stone (Ruth Galloway 2)
- The House at Seas End (Ruth Galloway 3)
- A Room Full of Bones (opening lines) (Ruth Galloway 4)
- Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway 5)
- The Outcast Dead (opening lines) (Ruth Galloway 6)
- The Chalk Pit (Ruth Galloway 9)
- The Stone Circle (opening lines) (Ruth Galloway 11)
Stephens and Mephisto series
- The Zig Zag Girl (1)
- The Blood Card (3)
- The Vanishing Box (4)
Harbinder Kaur series
GRISHAM, John:
GROVE,Valerie: Dear Dodie
GUDENKAUF, Heather: Missing Pieces
GUINEY, Sue: Tangled Roots
HAHN, Daniel: Poetic Lives:Shelley
HAIG, Matt: How To Stop Time
HALL, M R:
HAMER, Marc: How to Catch a Mole
HANES, E C: Justice by Another Name
HANNAH, Kristin: The Nightingale
HANNAH, Sophie:
HARDY, Thomas:
HARPER, Jane:
HARRIS, Jane: Gillespie and I
HARRIS, Joane:
HARRIS, Robert:
Cicero Trilogy
HARTSHORNE, Pamela: Time’s Echo
HARVEY, Samantha: The Western Wind
HAWKINS, Paula: The Girl on the Train
HAY, Mavis Doriel: The Santa Klaus Mystery
HEALEY, Jane: The Animals at Lockwood Manor
HEAP, Joe: The Rules of Seeing
HEMINGWAY, Ernest: The Old Man and the Sea
HERRIOT, James: Cat Stories
HEYER, Georgette:
HICKSON, Joanna:
HILL, Reginald:
- An Advancement of Learning
- Asking for the Moon (4 novellas)
- An April Shroud
- On Beulah Height
- Bones and Silence
- A Clubbable Woman
- Death’s Jest Book
- The Death of Dalziel
- Exit Lines
- A Killing Kindness
- A Pinch of Snuff
- The Turning of the Tide (orig publ as The Castle of the Demon writing as Patrick Ruell)
- Underworld
HILL, Susan:
- The Beacon
- The Betrayal of Trust (Simon Serrailler 6)
- Howards End is on the Landing
- Jacob’s Room is Full of Books
- The Man in the Picture
- A Question of Identity (Simon Serrailler 7)
- The Shadows in the Street (Simon Serrailler 5)
- The Small Hand
- The Vows of Silence (Simon Serrailler 4)
HILL, Tobias: The Hidden
HIRAIDE, Takashi: The Guest Cat
HISLOP, Victoria:
HOFFMAN, Alice: Practical Magic
HOLLINGSWORTH, Pauline: The Spirituality of Jane Austen
HOLLOWAY, Richard: Leaving Alexandria: a Memoir of Faith and Doubt
HOLMS, Joyce:
HOLTBY, Winifred: South Riding
HONORE, Carl: In Praise of Slow
HORNBY: Gill
HOROWITZ, Anthony:
- A Line to Kill
- The House of Silk
- Magpie Murders
- Moonflower Murders
- The Sentence is Death
- The Word is Murder
HOWARD, Elizabeth Jane: All Change
HUGO, Victor:
HULL, Richard:
HUNTER, Alan:
IGGULDEN, Conn:
- Dunstan: One Man Will Change the Fate of England
- Lion (Golden Age series 1)
ILES, Francis: Before the Fact
INNES, Michael:
- Death at the President’s Lodging (Inspector Appleby 1)
- The Secret Vanguard (Inspector Appleby 3)
- Appleby’s End (Inspector Appleby 4)
- The Daffodil Affair (Inspector Appleby 8)
- Operation Pax (Inspector Appleby 12)
IRVING, John: A Prayer for Owen Meany
ISHIGURO, Kazuo:
IVEY, Eowyn: To the Bright Edge of the World
IZNER, Claude: Murder on the Eiffel Tower
JACKSON, Mick: The Widow’s Tale
JACKSON, Shirley:
JAKOBSEN, Dorte Hummelshoj:
JAMES, Christina:
JAMES, Ed: Worth Killing For
JAMES, Emmett: Admit One
JAMES, Henry:
JAMES, P D:
- Death Comes To Pemberley
- The Murder Room
- The Private Patient
- Talking About Detective Fiction
- An Unsuitable Job for a Woman
JAMES, Peter:
Roy Grace books:
- Dead Simple (1)
- Looking Good Dead (2)
- Not Dead Enough (3)
- Dead Man’s Footsteps (4) – Book Beginning post
- Dead Tomorrow ( 5) – very short review
- Dead Like You (6)
- Dead Man’s Grip (7)
- Not Dead Yet (8)
Novels:
JARDINE, Quintin: Fallen Gods
JAZZ, Jane: Tantalus
JEFFERIES, Dinah: The Tea Planter’s Wife
JENNINGS, Luke: Codename Villanelle
JEROME, K Jerome: Three Men in a Boat
JEWELL, Lisa:
JOHNSTON, Jennifer:
JÓNASSON, Ragnar:
JONES, Alan: The Cabinetmaker
JONES, Sadie: The Outcast
KATSU, Alma:
KEATING, H R F:
KEEGAN, Claire:
KEER, Jenni: The Hopes and Dreams of Lucy Baker
KENNEDY, Emma: The Tent, the Bucket and Me
KENT, Hannah: The Good People
KERNICK, Simon: The Bone Field
KERR, Philip: Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton
KEYES, Marian: The Break
KHAN, Ausma Zehanat Khan: The Unquiet Dead
KILLEEN, Richard: A Short History of Scotland
KING, Stephen: The Shining
KINGSOLVER, Barbara:
KIPLING, Rudyard: The Man Who Would Be King
KNIGHT, Alanna:
KNOX, Joseph:
L
LACKBERG, Camilla: The Drowning
LASKI, Marghanita:
LAWRENCE, D H:
LAWSON, Mary:
LEA, Caroline: The Glass Woman
LE CARRÉ, John:
LEE, Harper: To Kill a Mockingbird
LEE, Hermione: Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing
LEE, Laurie: Cider with Rosie
LEEGANT, Joan: Wherever You Go
LEHMANN, Rosamond: The Weather in the Streets
LEIPCIGER, Sarah: Coming Up For Air
LELIC, Simon:
LELORD, Francois: Hector and the Search for Happiness
LEMBACH, Marti: Daniel Isn’t Talking
LENG, Flavia: Daphne du Maurier: a Daughter’s Memoir
L’ENGLE, Madeleine: A Wrinkle in Time
LEON, Donna:
Commissario Brunetti Mysteries
- Wilful Behaviour (11)
- Doctored Evidence (13)
- Drawing Conclusions (20)
- Give Unto Others (31)
LESSING, Doris: The Grass is Singing
LEVY, Andrea:
LEWYCKA, Marina: Two Caravans
LEWIS, C S: Letters to Malcom
LINDSAY, Joan: Picnic at Hanging Rock
LIVELY, Penelope:
LIVINGSTON, Michael : Never Greater Slaughter
LODGE, David: Deaf Sentence
LONDON, Jack: The Call of the Wild
LONG, James: Ferney
LOPEZ, Barry: Desert Notes and River Notes
LORAC, E C R:
- Bats in the Belfry
- Checkmate to Murder
- Fell Murder
- Fire in the Thatch
- Murder by Matchlight
- Murder in the Mill Race
- Shroud of Darkness
LOVELL, Mary S: The Riviera Set
LOVESEY, Peter: The Secret Hangman
LOVETT, Charlie: The Bookman’s Tale
LUSK, Sean: The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley
LYNCH, Jim: The Highest Tide
MACASKILL, Hilary: Agatha Christie at Home
MACBRIDE, Stuart: A Dark So Deadly
MacKAY, John: Heartland
McBAIN, Ed: Cop Hater
McALLISTER, Gillian:
McCALL SMITH, Alexander:
- The Careful Use of Compliments
- The Comfort of Saturdays
- The Right Attitude to Rain
- The Sunday Philosophy Club
44 Scotland Street series:
- Sunshine on Scotland Street (book 8)
McCARTHY, Tom: Remainder
McCRACKEN, Elizabeth: The Giant’s House
McDERMID, Val:
Karen Pirie series:
- The Distant Echo
- A Darker Domain
- The Skeleton Road
- Out of Bounds – no review
- Broken Ground
Standalone books:
MACDONALD, Helen: H is for Hawk
McEWAN, Ian:
MACFARLANE, Robert: The Wild Places
MacGREGOR, Neil: Shakespeare’s Restless World
MACINTYRE, Ben: Operation Mincemeat
MACLEAN, Alasdair: Night Falls on Ardnamurchan
MACLEAN, S G (aka Shona):
Alexander Seaton series:
Damian Seeker series:
- The Seeker (1)
- The Black Friar (2)
- Destroying Angel (3)
- The Bear Pit (4)
McHAFFIE, Hazel:
McINTYRE, W H S: Present Tense
MacKENZIE, A J : The Body in the Ice
McKENZIE, Catherine: The Good Liar
McMAHON, Katharine:
MACNEAL, Elizabeth:
MACONIE, Stuart: Long Road from Jarrow
MACPHERSON, Camilla:
McPHERSON, Catriona:
- After the Armistice Ball (Dandy Gilver 1)
- The Burry Man’s Day (Dandy Gilver 2)
- Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains (Dandy Gilver 5)
- Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder (Dandy Gilver 6)
- The Mirror Dance (Dandy Gilver 15)
MADDEN, Deirdre: Molly Fox’s Birthday
MAITLAND, Karen:
writing as K J MAITLAND:
MANGAN, Lucy: Bookworm
MANKELL, Henning:
MANNING, Olivia
MANTEL, Hilary:
- The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories
- Bring Up the Bodies
- A Change of Climate
- Fludd
- Giving Up the Ghost: a Memoir
- Ink in the Blood
- A Place of Greater Safety
- Wolf Hall
MARCHANT, Clare: The Queen’s Spy
MARNHAM, Patrick: Wild Mary
MARR, Andrew:
MARRS, John: The Passengers
MARSH, Ngaio: A Man Lay Dead
MARSTON, Edward: The King’s Evil
MARTIN, Andrew: The Winker
MARTIN, George R R: A Game of Thrones
MASS OBSERVATION WRITERS: Our Longest Days
MATTESON, John: Eden’s Outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father
MAUGHAM, Somerset:
MAWER, Simon:
MAY, Peter:
- The Blackhouse (Lewis Trilogy 1)
- Entry Island
- Extraordinary People (the Enzo Files 1)
MAZZOLA, Anna: The Story Keeper
MEDIEVAL MURDERS: King Arthur’s Bones
MEREDITH, Anne: Portrait of a Murderer
MERCER, Jeremy: Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs
MEYER, Deon:
MILLER, Andrew: Now We Shall Be Entirely Free
MILLS, Mark: Where Dead Men Meet
MITCHELL, David:
MITCHELL, Margaret: Gone with the Wind – see also this post
MOORE, Alison: He Wants
MORAN, Michelle: Nefertiti
MORREY, Beth: Saving Missy
MORRIS, Heather: The Tattooist of Auschwitz
MORRISON, Toni: A Mercy
MORTIMER, Peter: 100 Days on Holy Island: a Writer’s Exile
MORTON, Kate:
- The Clockmaker’s Daughter
- The Distant Hours
- The House at Riverton
- The Forgotten Garden
- The Secret Keeper
MOSSE, Kate:
- The Black Mountain
- The Taxidermist’s Daughter by Kate Mosse
The Burning Chambers series:
- The Black Mountain (1)
- The City of Tears (2)
MOSTERT, Natasha: Season of the Witch
MOTION, Andrew: Silver:Return to Treasure Island
MUNRO, Alice: The View from Castle Rock
MURDOCH, Iris:
MURPHY, Dervla: Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle
MURRAY, Andrew Hunter: The Last Day
MURRAY, Douglas: The Madness of Crowds
NAUGHTIE, James: The Madness of July
NAVIN, Rhiannon: Only Child
NEEL, Janet: Ticket to Ride
NEILL, Fiona: The Betrayals
NEMIROVSKY, Irene:
NESBIT, Edith: The Railway Children
NESBO, Jo: Macbeth
NICHOLSON, Harry:
NICOLSON, Juliet: The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911
NIELSSEN, Jerri: Ice Bound
NIFFENEGGER, Audrey: Her Fearful Symmetry
NORRIS, Barney:
OATES, Joyce Carol:
- Blonde
- The Gravedigger’s Daughter – see also here and here
- Solstice
OBREHT, Tea: Inland
OCKLEY, Martha: The Reluctant Detective
O’CONNOR, Conor: We Are Not In The World
O’CONNOR, Denis:
O’FARRELL, Maggie:
- The Hand That First Held Mine
- I Am, I Am, I Am (short post about opening paragraph)
- Instructions for a Heatwave
O’HAGAN, Andrew: Be Near Me
O’KANE, Janet:
OLSSON, Linda: Astrid and Veronika
ORCZY, Baroness:
ORWELL, George:
OSMAN, Richard:
OSWALD, James:
OWENS, Delia: Where the Crawdads Sing
PACKHAM, Chris: Fingers in the Sparkle Jar
PANTER-DOWNES, Mollie:
PARKER, Ann:
- Silver Lies (Silver Rush Mysteries 1)
- A Dying Note (Silver Rush Mysteries 6)
PARRIS, S J: Prophecy
PARRY, Ambrose:
Raven, Fisher and Simpson series
PARRY, Robert: The Arrow Chest
PATCHETT, Ann:
PAVER, Michelle:
PAVONE, Chris: The Expats
PAXMAN, Jeremy:
PEAKE, Mervyn: Titus Groan
PEARCE, A J: Dear Mrs Bird
PEARL, Matthew: The Poe Shadow
PEARTREE, Cecilia: Crime in the Community
PENMAN, Sharon: The Sunne in Splendour
PENNEY, Stef: The Tenderness of Wolves
PERRIN: Valerie: Fresh Water for Flowers
PERRY, Anne: A Christmas Visitor
PICARDIE, Justine: Daphne
PILCHER, Rosamunde: The End of Summer
PLAMPIN, Matthew: Mrs Whistler
POLLOCK, John: Wilberforce
PORTIS, Charles: True Grit
POSTGATE, Raymond: Somebody at the Door
PRESCOTT, H F M: The Man on a Donkey
PROULX, Annie: The Shipping News
PROWSE, Amanda: The Idea of You
PULLEY, Natasha: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street
PULLMAN, Philip:
QIU, Xiaolong:
QUINDLEN, Anna: Blessings
QUINN, Kate: The Rose Code
R
RABAN, Jonathan: Surveillance
RANKIN, Ian:
- Black and Blue
- The Black Book
- The Complaints
- A Cool Head
- Doors Open
- Even Dogs In the Wild
- Exit Music
- The Falls – see also here
- Fleshmarket Close
- A Good Hanging & other stories
- The Hanging Garden
- Hide and Seek
- The Impossible Dead
- Knots and Crosses
- Let it Bleed
- Mortal Causes
- The Naming of the Dead
- A Question of Blood
- Rebus’s Scotland
- Resurrection Men
- Saints of the Shadow Bible
- Set In Darkness – see also here
- Standing in Another Man’s Grave
READ, Miss:
REBANKS, James: English Pastoral
REED, Eric: Ruined Stones
REEVE, Philip: Here Lies Arthur
RENDELL, Ruth:
- The Crocodile Bird
- A Judgement in Stone
- Kissing the Gunner’s Daughter (Wexford)
- Murder Being Once Done (Wexford)
- No Man’s Nightingale (Wexford)
- Not in the Flesh (Wexford) (audio book)
- Portobello
- Put On By Cunning (Wexford)
- The Saint Zita Society
- Tigerlily’s Orchids
RHODES, Pam: Casting the Net
RILEY, Lucinda:
The Seven Sisters series
- The Seven Sisters (1)
- The Storm Sister (2) – no review
- The Moon Sister (5)
ROBERTS, Michele: Fair Exchange
ROBERTSON, James: The Testament of Gideon Mack
ROBERTSON, S D:
ROBINS, Jane: White Bodies
ROBINSON, Marilynne: Gilead
ROBINSON, Peter:
Inspector Banks series:
- Gallows View (Inspector Banks 1)
- A Dedicated Man (Inspector Banks 2)
- A Necessary End (Inspector Banks 3)
- The Hanging Valley (Inspector Banks 4)
- Past Reason Hated (Inspector Banks 5)
- Wednesday’s Child (Inspector Banks 6)
- Dry Bones that Dream (Inspector Banks 7)
- Innocent Graves (Inspector Banks 8)
- Dead Right (Inspector Banks 9)
- In a Dry Season (Inspector Banks 10)
- Cold is the Grave (Inspector Banks 11)
- Aftermath (Inspector Banks 12)
- The Summer That Never Was Inspector Banks 13)
- Playing With Fire (Inspector Banks 14)
- Strange Affair (Inspector Banks 15)
- Beyond the Poison (Inspector Banks 16)
- All the Colours of Darkness (Inspector Banks 18)
- Bad Boy (Inspector Banks 19)
Novels:
Short Stories:
- Not Safe After Dark and other works (short stories)
ROBSON, Eric: The Border Line
ROE, Sue: The Private Lives of the Impressionists
ROSS, Orna: Blue Mercy
ROSSITER, Joanna: The Sea Change
ROWLING, J K: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
ROY, Arundhati: The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
RUSSELL, Craig:
Jan Fabel series
- A Fear of Dark Water (book 6)
- The Ghosts of Altona (book 7)
RUBENFELD, Jed: The Interpretation of Murder
SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita: All Passion Spent
SADLER, John: Flodden 1513: Scotland’s Greatest Defeat
SANSOM, C J :
Shardlake series:
- Revelation (book 4)
- Heartstone (book 5)
- Lamentation (book 6)
- Tombland (book 7)
Novels:
SASSOON, Siegfried: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
SAVILLE, Malcolm: Seven White Gates
SAYERS, Dorothy L:
Peter Wimsey books:
- Whose Poison? (1)
- Clouds of Witness (2)
- Strong Poison (6)
- Five Red Herrings (7)
- Have His Carcase (8)
- The Nine Tailors (11)
- Gaudy Night (12)
SCHMIDT, Sarah: See What I Have Done
SCOTT, Sir Walter: Ivanhoe – see also here
SETON, Anya – Green Darkness
SETTERFIELD, Diane: Once Upon a River
SHAW, Catherine: The Riddle of the River
SHAW, William: The Birdwatcher
SHREVE, Anita:
SHUTE: Nevil: A Town Like Alice
SIGURDARDOTTIR, Yrsa: The Legacy
SIMENON, Georges:
Maigret books
- Pietr the Latvian (1)
- Lock 14 (2)
- The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (3)
- The Grand Banks Cafe (9)
- The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin (10)
- The Shadow Puppet (13)
- The Madman of Bergerac (16)
- The Hotel Majestic (20)
- Maigret’s Holiday (28)
- My Friend Maigret (31)
- The Friend of Madame Maigret (34)
- Maigret’s Memoirs (35)
- The Man on the Boulevard (41)
- Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (53)
- Maigret in Court (55)
- Maigret and the Ghost (62)
Short Stories:
SIMMONS, Dan: Drood
SIMONSON, Helen:
SKEA, Margaret:
Munro series:
- Turn of the Tide (Munro 1)
- A House Divided (Munro 2)
- By Sword and Storm (Munro 3)
SKLOOT, Rebecca: The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
SLATER, Nigel: Toast
SMITH, Dodie: I Capture the Castle
SMITH, Donald: The English Spy
SMITH, Fiona Veitch: The Kill Fee
SNOW, C P: Death Under Sail
SOSKICE, Janet: Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Found the Hidden Gospels
SOUTHARD, Susan: Nagasaki: Life After Nuclear War
SPARK, Muriel: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie see also this post
SPAIN, Jo:
STABENOW, Dana: A Cold Day for Murder
STEGNER, Wallace:
STEINBECK, John:
STEINER, Susie:
STEVENSON, Robert Louis: Tales of Terror
STEWART, Mary:
STEWART, Rory: The Marches
STOCKETT, Kathryn: The Help
STOKER, Bram: Dracula
STONE, Lisa: Stalker
STOTT, Rebecca: Ghostwalk
STUART, Julia: Balthazar Jones and the Tower of London Zoo
SUCHET, David: Poirot and Me
SUMMERSCALE, Kate: The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
SUSKIND, Patrick: Perfume: the story of a murderer
SUSSMAN, Paul: The Lost Army of Cambyses
SUTCLIFF, Rosemary:
SWARTZ, Katharine: The Lost Garden
SYMONS, Julian: The Colour of Murder
TABER, Gladys & WESTER, Barbara: Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge
TARTT, Donna: The Secret History
TAYLOR, Andrew:
Lydmouth series
- An Air That Kills (Lydmouth 1)
Marwood and Lovett series
Roth trilogy
- The Four Last Things (Roth Trilogy 1)
- The Judgement of Strangers (Roth Trilogy 2)
- The Office of the Dead (Roth Trilogy 3)
Novellas
Dougal series
- The Sleeping Policeman (William Dougal 7)
Collections
TAYLOR, Sara: The Lauras
TEODORESCU, Bogdan: Sword
TEY, Josephine:
THIRKELL, Angela: High Rising
THOMPSON, Laura: Agatha Christie: An English Mystery
THORNTON, Rosy:
THOROGOOD, Robert: The Marlow Murder Club
TINNISWOOD, Adrian: The Verneys
TODD, Barbara Euphan: Mr Blossom’s Shop
TOIBIN, Colm: The Shortest Day
TOLKIEN, J R R: The Hobbit
TOMALIN, Claire:
TORDAY, Paul:
TORS, Paul: Highlanders’ Revenge
TROLLOPE, Anthony:
Barsetshire Chronicles series
- Barchester Towers (2)
- Doctor Thorne (3)
- Framley Parsonage (4)
TWAIN, Mark:
TYLER, Anne: Digging to America
UNDERDOWN, Beth:
UPSON, Nicola:
VARGAS, Fred:
Commissaire Adamsberg
- The Chalk Circle Man (1)
- Seeking Whom He May Devour (2)
- An Uncertain Place (6)
- The Ghost Riders of Ordebec (7)
- A Climate of Fear (8)
Three Evangelists
- The Three Evangelists (1)
- Dog Will Have His Day (2)
- The Accordionist (3)
- VICKERS, Salley:
de VINCK, Christopher: Ashes
VINE, Barbara:
- Asta’s Book
- The Birthday Present
- The Brimstone Wedding
- A Dark-Adapted Eye
- A Fatal Inversion
- The House of Stairs
WADDELL, Dan: The Blood Detective
WALKER, Matthew: Why We Sleep
WALLACE, Edgar: The Clue of the Twisted Candle
WALLMAN-GIRDLESTONE, Jane: The Three Graces
WALTERS, Minette:
WARD, Sarah: In Bitter Chill
WARE, Ruth:
WARK, Kirsty:
WARNER, Sylvia Townsend: Lolly Willowes
WATERS, Sarah: The Little Stranger
WATSON, Colin: Bump in the Night
WATT, Douglas:
WAX, Ruby: And Now For the Good News
WAY, Camilla: Who Killed Ruby?
WEBB, Mary: Gone to Earth
WEBB, Wendy: The Stroke of Winter
WEIR, Alison:
Six Tudor Queens:
- Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen (1)
- Anne Boleyn: A King’s Obsession (2)
- Katheryn Howard: the Tainted Queen (5)
WELLS, H G: The Time Machine
WELSH, Louise:
WENTWORTH, Patricia:
WESTMACOTT, Mary (Agatha Christie): Absent in the Spring
WHARTON, Edith: Ethan Frome
WILKINSON, Ellen: The Division Bell Mystery
WILLIAMS, Shirley: Climbing the Bookshelves (autobiography)
WILSON, A N:
WINGFIELD, R D: Frost At Christmas
WINN, Raynor: The Salt Path
WINSPEAR, Jacqueline:
- Among the Mad (Maisie Dobbs 6)
- Messenger of Truth (Maisie Dobbs 4)
- Pardonable Lies (Maisie Dobbs 3)
WODEHOUSE, P G,
WOODRUFF, William: The Road to Nab End
WOOLF, Virginia:
WOOLFSON. Esther: Corvus: a Life with Birds (non-fiction)
WORSLEY, Lucy: Jane Austen at Home
WORTHEN, John: D H Lawrence: the Life of an Outsider
WRIGHT, Austin: Tony and Susan
WRIGHT, Clarissa Dickson: Spilling the Beans
WYNDHAM, John:
YORKE, Margaret:
JEONG, You-Jeong: The Good Son
YOUNG, Angela:
YOUNG, Lucien: Trump’s Christmas Carol
YOUNG, Suzanne: Murder by Yew
ZELTSERMAN, Dave: Pariah
ZOUROUDI, Anne:
ZUSAK, Markus: The Book Thief