December 2021

Alice Clark-Platts, The Flower Girls, excellent and unsettling, A
Clare Darcy, Lady Pamela, very obvious Heyer pastiche, but still quite enjoyable, A-
Val McDermid, Gunpowder Plots, short stories, OK, B
Jodi Taylor, A Trail Through Time, A; No Time Like The Past, A+
Sally Watson, Linnet, B
Paul Howarth, Only Killers And Thieves – well written but horribly bleak and depressing, C+
Pratchett reread, Small Gods – not his best, C+; Lords And Ladies, fab, A+
Karen Perry, Can You Keep A Secret, B-
Karin Slaughter, The Silent Wife, B
Dorothy L Sayers, Hangman’s Holiday – short stories, rather slight, B-
Lisa Unger, The Stranger Inside – B
Margaret Rhodes, The Final Curtsey, B+
Larry Alderman, Did I Sleep In My 66 Ford For This – interesting content, but not well written and appallingly proofread, C+
Diana Wynne Jones reread, Enchanted Glass, A