This is a stupendous novel, one I never wanted to end. Set in contemporary Bangkok – there are references to the new king – there is, nevertheless, a feeling that the book is set in a slightly timeless, slowed down city. The almost dreamlike remoteness and otherworldliness of The Kingdom …
This is such a clever, gripping spy novel, but it was only when I reluctantly closed the book & instantly checked to see what else Mr. McCloskey had written that I realised that “The Seventh Floor” is actually the 3rd in a series. So back tracking is now on the …
After being very under-whelmed by the previous Cormoran Strike book (The Ink Black Heart), this 7th novel in the series was an absolute joy. As clichéd as it sounds, it was gripping. An absolute page-turner. And my faith in the wonderful J.K. Rowling (aka Robert Galbraith) was fully restored. It’s …
Sadly, I only really clocked that Stella Rimington was such an acclaimed novelist when I read her recent obituary. What a waste, not to have read her spy novels over the years, but I’ve made a start, and am hooked. ”At Risk”, her first book in the Liz Carlyle series, …
As a diehard fan of the fabulous Thursday Murder Club series, the thought of a new Richard Osman mystery, with a whole new set of characters, was irresistible. And what a super read this book is, introducing us to a fabulous bunch of people who (nailing my colours to the …
I’m already a huge Mick Herron fan, having read all the Slow Horses books, but this one…ouf! If indeed “ouf” is an accepted form of praise. “The Secret Hours” is a brilliant stand-alone novel, but since there are references to Regent’s Park in the book, you gradually realise that is …
The one drawback about randomly taking a book off the shelves on a rainy day when you’re holidaying in a friend’s house…is that you might unwittingly pick up a book that is part of a series… Guilty as charged. I curled up quite happily with The Collectors, while the rain …
HOW on earth did I miss this smashing, stand-alone novel by the brilliant Mick Herron? For someone who loves the Slough House series so much, I repeat, how on earth did I only just come across “Nobody Walks”? Although this is not formally a part of the Slough House/Slow Horses …
Mr. Khan presents the reader with a thought-provoking dilemma in the opening pages of this novel. In the immediate aftermath of India’s independence from the colonial rule of the British, can a white British man get justice from an Indian court? This dilemma – justice for the hated former colonial …
