Results for: Jo Nesbo
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020Reading dates: 21 December 2019 – 01 January 2020 I picked up this book while on holiday in Egypt, sad to start the last Ferrante. It was very disappointing. From the uneven chapters, to the red herrings and even the narrative. I still love Harry Hole as a character but I felt him far fetched […]
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Knife by Jo Nesbo**
1 January 2020…I have been in for the last few years. Nesbo had to make some pretty tough decisions as to the fate of some key characters but I am not sure…
Killing Moon by Jo Nesbø ***
15 March 2024Reading dates 18 February – 14 March 2024 I have been reading, as promised to myself, very worthy literature until the countdown for my trip to Tenerife for my Purple Valley yoga retreat came into single figure sleeps. A fortuitous trip to the newsagent made me stand in front of the bestsellers display and I […]
Never Somewhere Else by Alex Gray**
24 April 2014Reading dates: 16 – 23 April 2014 I really like crime fiction set in Glasgow. The place is a character, and one I happen to know, so this adds an extra depth to the reading experience. Yet, this setting is the only thing I liked about Lorimer’s first outing. The story is clever but only […]
The Field of Blood by Denise Mina ****
17 March 2014Reading dates: 09 February – 14 March 2014 Glasgow is an eerie place, the perfect setting for crime fiction, and if the stories are told by as talented a writer as Denise Mina, even better. The central character of this novel, Paddy Meehan, shares her name with the infamous robber who suffered a miscarriage of […]
Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin *
10 August 2013Reading dates: 01 August 2013 – 09 August 2013 Having given 1* to Fiesta, I did not feel I could give any more to Rebus’ first appearance, even though I enjoyed reading this much more than Fiesta, save for the fact that Neil and I read Fiesta aloud to each other. Rankin references Muriel Spark, […]
Las Madres by Carmen Mola ****
13 May 2025Reading dates 20 April – 13 May 2025 Las Madres is the fifth instalment in the Elena Blanco series and I cannot help feel I am reading a disintegration, in the way Harry Hole disintegrated. Something big is being set up in this novel, something that will manifest in the next one and keep me […]
La Novia Gitana by Carmen Mola ****
4 March 2025Reading dates: 16 February – 3 March 2025 Occasionally, I need to read books in my mother tongue, mainly for my brain to change language, to see where I am with it. After the controversy surrounding the revelation of the identity behind Carmen Mola (three male Spanish writers, Jorge Díaz, Agustín Martínez, and Antonio Mercero) […]
Heroines by Kate Zambreno *****
31 December 2013Reading dates: 19 November – 31 December 2013 When reviewing The Bat, I urged you to stick to your reading list, lest you should encounter novels like this and waste your time. With Heroines, I am going to contradict myself. It is everything one would hope from venturing outside of the confines of a reading […]