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Ripley Under Water by Patricia Highsmith****
4 March 2017Reading dates: 04 February – 02 March 2017 Although still not the best in the series, Ripley Under Water is better conceived than the previous book. Ripley was bound to get a stalker at some point so the main thread of the story makes sense. I am still not sure about the quality of the […]
The boy who followed Ripley by Patricia Highsmith**
9 February 2017Reading dates: 24 December 2016 – 03 February 2017 Is it me or is this series withering as it goes along? I did not understand the purpose of this, the fourth Ripliad book. I did not get a sense of Tom Ripley’s decision making within the story. Why does he care about this boy so […]
Ripley’s Game by Patricia Highsmith ***
30 December 2016Reading dates: 19—24 December 2016 I liked ‘Ripley’s Game’ less that any of the others so far but the reason is simple: Tom Ripley shares his protagonist role with someone else who becomes his sidekick but who is not as good as Tom on the page. Yet, from the point Tom appears by surprise on […]
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith ****
29 December 2016Reading dates: 16—19 December 2016 While on holiday in India, and after reading ‘His Bloody Project’, nothing could satisfy me. I started ‘Crime and Punishment’ for the third time but was often more enthused by the clumsy bat and ball game next to me. Then I remember a conversation I had with Rob Wringham about […]
The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith****
30 August 2015Reading dates: 05 – 31 August 2015 As I was finishing the edit of my new book Make Me Yours, I came across the chapter that discusses Tom Ripley, so I thought I would re-read the Ripliad. My experience of the first novel in the series was similar to the first time I read it, […]
The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith*****
30 January 2026Reading Dates: 10–30 January 2026 Neil gave me The Tremor of Forgery as a Christmas present, mainly because I like Patricia Highsmith but also because this edition had a foreword by Denise Mina, whom I adore. Mina advises to a true Highsmith fan to go off the beaten Ripliad path to find her full potential. […]
The Riddle of the Third Mile by Colin Dexter **
17 November 2025Reading dates: 18 October – 16 November 2025 Inspector Morse novels in order: Last Bus to Woodstock **** Last Seen Wearing*** The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn*** Service of All the Dead ** The Dead of Jericho *** The Riddle of the Third Mile ** The Secret of Annexe 3 The Wench is Dead The […]
Malice Aforethought by Francis Iles ****
9 August 2024Reading dates: 29 July – 09 August 2024 Malice Aforethought is a wicket little thriller which I bought simply because it is part of a collection of books I quite like as objects. I had never heard of Francis Iles, but the description intrigued me. Here was a crime novel where we know, from page […]
About the Author by John Colapinto ***
11 September 2023Reading dates: 20 August – 09 September 2023 After spending two years reading Reacher, the first book away from that relationship was going to be a hard act to follow so I am writing this with the mind that I might be too harsh, as I miss Reacher (I had a dream last night in […]
Worth Dying For by Lee Child ***
10 October 2022Reading dates: 05 September – 09 October 2022 Previous reviews of the Jack Reacher series (now with publisher teasers so I remember which is which. After all, this is a research project.) #1 Killing Floor *** Jack Reacher gets off a bus in a small town in Georgia. And is thrown into the county jail, […]
The Switch by Joseph Finder *
2 April 2018Reading Dates: 26 February – 2 April 2018 Implausible, drawn out and un-engaging. In an airport security queue, someone picks up the wrong laptop, belonging to a US senator and containing top secret information.The senator’s chief of staff and the NSA are after the guy. Written like this, it does not seem too bad but, […]
Kill your friends by John Niven***
30 January 2016Reading dates: 11–29 January 2016 In every difficult, worthwhile endeavour there will come a point when the easiest course of action is to abandon forward motion, to allow inertia to take over and to return to the status quo. It is the brave and great man who, upon recognising this point, resists inertia and smashes […]