May 2020

Jane Aiken Hodge, One Way To Venice – very implausibly drawn child character spoiled it, C
Carol Carnac, Crossed Skis – quite good with a nice period feel, but the ending was a bit pat, B
Sarah Mallory, The Mysterious Miss Fairchild, slight but quite nice, B
Tim Weaver, Chasing The Dead – efficient thriller, but plot very far fetched. B-
Rachel Aaron, The Spirit Eater, B
Lisa Gardner, When You See Me, quite good, but she’s really dragging out this story arc, B
Terry Pratchett reread, Mort, his first masterpiece, A+
Louise Penny, A Trick Of The Light – excellent, A
Philippa East, Little White Lies, very good - A
Michael Bond, A Bear Called Paddington, lovely nostalgia, A
Amanda Brown, The Prison Doctor – interesting, quite a quick read, B+
Val McDermid, The Retribution – well written but awfully grim, B
Lucy Mangan, Bookworm – wonderful, feels like my alter ego, A+
Tammy Norman, When She Was Bad – excellent thriller, A+
Lee Child, Persuader, excellent but a bit violent, A
Charlaine Harris, Dead Over Heels, pleasant but very slight plot, C+
Liz Talley, The Wedding War – quite entertaining, B
Diane Farr, The Nobody – well, I quite enjoyed it, but it drew REALLY heavily on Georgette Heyer, B-
Dorothy L Sayers, Lord Peter Views The Body, enjoyable short stories, B+
Elizabeth Buchan, I Can’t Begin To Tell You – excellent, A+
Cara Hunter, All The Rage – very good; one technical error I noticed, a birth at the RBH would be registered in Reading not Wokingham; B+