March reads

March was a good month of reading. My book of the month was Gerard Brennan's The Point. A cracking good read.

Death on the Marias by Adrian Magson ***.5
The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson by Douglas Lindsay ****.5
The Imitation of Patsy Burke by John J Gaynard ****
Kiss Me Quick by Danny Miller ***
Choke on Your Lies by Anthony Neil Smith ****
Manchester 6 by Col Bury ***.5
Star Island by Carl Hiassen ***
The Point by Gerard Brennan *****
Tollesbury Times Forever by Stuart Aylis ***.5
The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths ***
Incompetence by Rob Grant ***

March reviews

A pretty varied month of reading. A Beautiful Place to Die and The Main were the stand out books and although there's not much to split them in terms of being interesting and entertaining reads, The Main shades it as my book of the month.

Spitting on a Soldier's Grave by Robert Widders **.5
Berlin at War by Roger Moorhouse ***.5
The Burning Girl by Mark Billingham ***
He Died With His Eyes Open by Derek Raymond ****
A Beautiful Place to Die by Malla Nunn ****.5
The Main by Trevanian ****.5
People Who Walk in Darkness by Stuart Kaminsky **.5

March Reviews

The third month in a row in which I read just seven books. I can see a pattern emerging here! Undoubtedly the highlight of the month was The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain, a classic tale of fatal attraction. There's a lot of four star reviews here, but it didn't feel like a four star month, mainly, I think, because of what was going on otherwise.

The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza ****
The Good Thief's Guide to Paris by Chris Ewan ****
Devil's Food by Anthony Bruno ****
Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre ****
The Complaints by Ian Rankin ****
Pies and Prejudice by Stuart Maconie **
The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain *****