Read The Second Murderer: A Philip Marlowe Novel by Denise Mina ★★★☆☆ 📚
Pretty good job updating Marlow a little for our more sensitive times.
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Read: Dead Lions by Mick Herron ★★★☆☆ 📚
The second in the series, grubby comic spies. I think I’ll keep reading these now and again.
Read: The Wych Elm by Tana French ★★★☆☆ 📚
Narrator with a bump on the head and confused brain. Murder from the past. The story unwinds & unfolds in a teasing way.
Read: Slow Horses by Mick Herron ★★★ 📚
Enjoyed this, even though I’d seen the TV series.
Read: Miss Garnet’s Angel by Salley Vickers ★★★☆☆ 📚
Spinster reborn in Venice, kept me going, somewhat puzzled and not quite convinced by end.
Read: William Blake vs the World by John Higgs ★★★☆☆ 📚
Years ago I enjoyed the songs & Marriage of Heaven and Hell, I was baffled by Blake’s prophetic books. Light is shone on this personal mythology. Amusing links to how Blake is used now, e.g. Jerusalem.
Read: Where My Heart Used to Beat by Sebastian Faulks ★★★☆☆
Enjoys this life told through wars, love & remembering.
Read: A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin ★★★☆☆
Rebus is now very old, somehow keeps me reading even though I’ve never steered a chronological paths through the books.
Read: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler ★★★☆☆ 📚
A wee bit to young-adult for me to love. I enjoyed reading it in a fairly relaxed way. As much as you an enjoy the apocalypse.
Read: Now She is Witch by Kirsty Logan ★★★☆☆ 📚
Fantasy history, witch hunts, plague. Some unexpected twists and reveals.