Raynor Reads Stuff

Category: Crime

  • REVIEW: The Mind’s Eye

    More Scandi Noir. I think it’s the dark nights and cold weather that means I’m drawn to the genre during the winter. I know it’s spring now but I haven’t quite caught up blogging about the books I read last month yet. Just this one and one more to go, then I have February checked…

  • REVIEW: Strange Shores

    I have no idea why I chose to read the final exploits of Detective Erlendur Sveinsson as my introduction to his character, but I did and now I am going to have to track down all the others (there are ten) because I loved it. Strange Shores by Arnaldur Indridason isn’t exactly Erlendur’s last case,…

  • REVIEW: The Body in the Mist

    The Body in the Mist by Nick Louth is the third novel in a series that features Detective Chief Inspector Craig Gillard. The series currently features ten books with an eleventh due out now (ish). Actually, I’ve just checked and The Body in the Shadows (book 11) came out two weeks ago on January 19,…

  • REVIEW: Burial Rites

    Oh my god this book is good. Go buy, borrow or steal it and read it immediately (actually don’t steal it, stealing is bad and wrong). I could leave it there, but I won’t obviously. It wouldn’t make for a very good blog post and this book deserves so much more than a one-liner. Burial…

  • REVIEW: Exit

  • REVIEW: Snap

    Oops, I’ve got my thumb over the author’s name in the photo. This rip-rollicking read is Snap by Belinda Bauer. It was a recommendation picked up from the BBC 2 television programme Between the Covers. And it is great. You might be able to see in that hideous yellow circle on the cover (I really…

  • REVIEW: Pine

    Fancy a juicy gothic thriller to curl up with on a dark winter’s night? Well I have just the thing for you here. Pine, published in 2020, is the first novel from Scottish author, poet and editor Francine Toon and is a great spine-tingler for a December evening. Set in a small village surrounded by…

  • REVIEW: The Honjin Murders

    I love a good crime novel. I am also rather partial to Japanese literature. So when I found this, on Amazon I believe, I could not resist. Seishi Yokomizo is one of Japan’s most revered crime novelists and also one of the most prolific. The Honjin Murders introduces Yokomizo’s much-loved amateur detective Kosuke Kindaichi. There…