2024

Audio books:

0 – The Darkness by Ragnar Jónasson

It’s a slight cheat to put this into this years list but I finished it just before New Year and I didn’t do a page for last year.  

It was read by Amanda Redman, unabridged and 5hrs 48mins

This was the first in a trilogy called Hidden Iceland and it’s about Detective Inspector Hulda Hermannsdóttir.  There are times when un-named characters appear in the narrative and it’s hard to figure out who they are and how they fit into the storyline but it does all become clear.

This might be considered a SPOILER but it’s like reading a series in reverse.  In this book we are told things but in the next book they either haven’t happened or are happening – so as a reader we have a knowledge that the characters don’t have.  It’s feels a bit strange but as I’m now on the third book I’m finding that it is giving a sense of anticipation that is not contained within the books themselves.  I have to say I think it’s rather clever

 

*side note – it’s now August and I haven’t posted anything – so it’s going to be a list rather than review…

1.  The Island by Ragnar Jónasson

2.  The Mist by Ragnar Jónasson

3.  Miss Marple’s Final Cases by Agatha Christie

4.  Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

5.  The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

6.  The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

7.  The Christmas Guest by Peter Swanson

8.  And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie

9.  Hinch Yourself Happy by Mrs Hinch

10. Nice Work (If You Can Get It) by Celia Imrie

11. Sail Away by Celia Imrie

12. Not Quiet Nice by Celia Imrie

13. The Twelve Days of Murder by Andreina Cordani

14. A Heart Full of Headstones by Ian Rankin

15. Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell

16. Some Lie and Some Die by Ruth Rendell

17. Inspector Morse: BBC Radio Drama by Colin Dexter

18. Amy Wingate’s Journal by Marcia Willett

19. Shake Hands Forever by Ruth Rendelll

20. A Sleeping Life by Ruth Rendell

21. Put on by Cunning by Ruth Rendell

22. Nothing But Blue Sky by Kathleen MacMahon

23. An Unkindness of Ravens by Ruth Rendell

24. Simisola by Ruth Rendell

25. Kissing the Gunners Daughter by Ruth Rendell

26. Road Rage by Ruth Rendell

27 PS, I Love You (Abridged) by Cecelia Ahern

28. Harm Done by Ruth Rendell

29. End in Tears by Ruth Rendell

30. Persuasion by Jane Austen

31. The Vault by Ruth Rendell

32. No Man’s Nightingale by Ruth Rendell

33. Passing Strange by Catherine Aird

34. Hole in One by Catherine Aird

35. One Upon A Time In The North by Philip Pullman

36. Call for the Dead by John le Carré

37. A Murder of Quality by John le Carré

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40. The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak. (this is out of position because I like the idea of it being at #40)