I don't rate books in my blog but I do when I put them on Goodreads. The books in this list that I rated as 5 stars are:
Spy Hook by Len Deighton
An Empty Death by Laura Wilson
Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
A Lily of the Field by John Lawton
Here are my posts ...
A is for Eric Ambler
B is for Robert Barnard
C is for The Cambridge Theorem by Tony Cape (a spy novel)
D is for Len Deighton (with a review of Spy Hook)
E is for An Empty Death by Laura Wilson
(the second novel in a mystery series set in World War II London)
F is for Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout
(my favorite book by my favorite mystery author)
G is for Elizabeth George
H is for Cyril Hare
(with reviews of With a Bare Bodkin and An English Murder)
I is for The Information Officer by Mark Mills
J is for Sébastien Japrisot
(with a review of The Sleeping Car Murders, a very unusual mystery)
K is for Stuart M. Kaminsky
(with reviews of Death of a Russian Priest and Bullet for a Star)
L is for John Lawton
(with reviews of Flesh Wounds and A Lily of the Field)
M is for Charles McCarry
N is for Night at the Vulcan by Ngaio Marsh
O is for Anthony Oliver
(with a review of The Property of a Lady)
P is for Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear
Q is for A Quiet Flame by Philip Kerr
R is for Helen Reilly
S is for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
T is for The Tattoo Murder Case, a vintage mystery by Japanese author, Akimitsu Takagi
U is for Under World by Reginald Hill
V is for Philo Vance and S. S. Van Dine
(with a review of The Greene Murder Case)
W is for R. D. Wingfield
(with a review of A Touch of Frost)
X is for XPD by Len Deighton
Y is for The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon
Z is for Zombies of the Gene Pool by Sharyn McCrumb
Len Deighton is the only author I covered twice, and that is because it is hard to find a title or author for X, and because I just discovered him this year. I read nine books by Len Deighton this year. And hope to read three more this year, to finish off the Bernard Samson series.
6 comments:
Many thanks for contributing to the meme Tracy. Glad it was such an enjoyable experience for you.
Tracy - Thanks so much for summing this all up this way. I enjoyed your posts.
I have put some of these books on my to-read list and I definitely need to re-read some of Deighton's thrillers. I think I've read XPD but that might have been some twenty years ago. Thanks for the round-up, Tracy, it's an eclectic mix.
Great kist Tracy. I have spy hook to read - I've read the first 3 and want to start this trilogy now. Glad you liked it. I will read your review when I have read the book.
Well done on completing the challenge TracyK - and some really great books there too as well as many that are completely new to me (which is even better!)
I've only read Fer de Lance which I really liked and the Chabon, I want to give Reginald Hill a go soon, and I'm going to be looking for more by Ngaio Marsh. You've done well, especially with all those Deightons.
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