This one is quite delicious, with Commander Adam Dalgiesh attempting to discover who was most capable of killing a distinguished QC, from a wide list of suspects. There’s no such thing as a bad PD James.
The Lighthouse by PD James
This is one of my favourite PD James. You just can’t beat a body hanging from a lighthouse and another in a freezer on a secluded island as a premise for intrigue. And of course Adam Dalgliesh.
A Taste For Death by PD James
Any PD James is a good PD James, especially when the protagonist is poet/detective Adam Dalgiesh, the thinking women’s crumpet.
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
This one’s very readable, but a bit weird.
The Good Parents by Joan London
London can make poetry out the simplest things: “They say very still as darkness filled the room.” It’s such a pleasure to read her prose that it hardly matters what the story is about. The Good Parents does, however, contain a compelling mystery: the disappearance of eighteen year old country girl Maya, whose parents find her gone when […]
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Love this one. A fascinating look into the lives of black maids and their white employers in Mississippi in 1962.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusack
This is one of those books everybody else seems to love more than me. Sure it’s interesting to have a book narrated by Death and there’s a lot of interesting parts in it, but somehow it just doesn’t move me.
Three Little Lies by Laura Marshall
I didn’t like Marshall’s previous thriller Friend Request much, and I don’t like this one much either. The characters are caricatures and the plot twists not stunning enough to make it worth your while. If you want to read a good thriller, put this one back on your shelf and check out my list of Top […]