2009 Reviews

Books reviewed in 2009, listed in the order I read them 

1. P D Martin – The Murderers’ Club (pub 2008, rating 4.5)
2. Paulus Hochgatterer – The Sweetness of Life (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
3. Michael Robotham – The Night Ferry (pub 2008, rating 2)
4. Aravind Adiga – The White Tiger (pub 2008, rating 5)
5. Barbara Vine – The Minotaur (pub 2006, rating 2)
6. Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Played With Fire (pub 2009, rating 5)
7. Kerry Greenwood – Trick or Treat (pub 2008, rating 4)
8. Leann Sweeney – Dead Giveaway (pub 2005, rating 2.5)
9. Alex Barclay – Blood Runs Cold (pub 2008, rating 1)
10. Alexander McCall Smith – Tears of the Giraffe (pub 2000, rating 4)
11. Leah Giarratano – Voodoo Doll (pub 2008, rating 5)
12. Lynda La Plante – The Red Dahlia (pub 2006, rating 2.5)
13. Julie Hyzy – State of the Onion (pub 2008, rating 3)
14. S J Bolton – Sacrifice (pub 2008, rating 4)
15. Fred Vargas – The Three Evangelists (pub 2006, rating 4)
16. Linwood Barclay – No Time For Goodbye (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
17. Kathryn Fox – Skin and Bone (pub 2007, rating 4)
18. Marele Day – The Life and Crimes of Harry Lavender (pub 1988, rating 3.5)
19. Anne Holt – What is Mine (pub 2001, rating 3.5)
20. Kate Atkinson – When Will There Be Good News (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
21. Sue Grafton – T is for Trespass (pub 2007, rating 4.5)
22. Louise Penny – Dead Cold (pub 2006, rating 2.5)
23. Karen Dionne – Freezing Point (pub 2008, rating 2)
24. Johan Theorin – Echoes From the Dead (pub 2008, rating 5)
25. Ann Purser – Murder on Monday (pub 2002, rating 3)
26. Hilary Bonner – When the Dead Cry Out (pub 2003, rating 2)
27. Michelle Gagnon – The Tunnels (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
28. Chris Womersley – The Low Road (pub 2007, rating DNF)
29. Patricia Hall – Devil’s Game (pub 2009, rating 4)
30. Rhys Bowen – Her Royal Spyness (pub 2007, rating 4)
31. James Lee Burke – The Tin Roof Blowdown (pub 2007, rating 3)
32. Emily Toll – Murder Will Travel (pub 2002, rating 1)
33. Felicity Young – An Easeful Death (2007, rating 4)
34. Vicky Delany – Valley of the Lost (pub 2009, rating 4)
35. Kathy Reichs – Devil Bones (pub 2008, rating 1)
36. Laura Lippman – What the Dead Know (pub 2007, rating 3)
37. Adrian Hyland – Diamond Dove (pub 2006, rating 5)
38. Daniel Kalla – Pandemic (pub 2005, rating 2.5)
39. Jincy Willet – The Writing Class (pub 2008, rating 4)
40. Iain Pears – The Raphael Affair (pub 1990, rating 4)
41. Tom Rob Smith – Child 44 (pub 2008, rating 4.5)
42. Vanda Symon – Overkill (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
43. Lee Harris – The Good Friday Murder (pub 1992, rating 2.5)
44. Jeffrey Deaver – The Broken Window (pub 2008, rating 2.5)
45. Daniel Silva – Prince of Fire (pub 2005, rating 4)
46. Kaye Morgan – Death by Sudoku (pub 2007, rating 0.1)
47. Michael Connelly – The Lincoln Lawyer (pub 2005, rating 3.5)
48. Stephen Booth – Blood on the Tongue (pub 2002, rating 2)
49. Claude Izner – Murder on the Eiffel Tower (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
50. M.R. Hall – The Coroner (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
51. Karin Slaughter – Skin Privilege (pub 2007, rating 1)
52. Mo Hayder – Ritual (pub 2008, rating 4)
53. Deanna Raybourn – Silent in the Grave (pub 2007, rating 1)
54. Patricia Cornwell – The Front (pub 2008, rating 2.5)
55. Stav Sherez – The Black Monastery (pub 2009, rating 4)
56. Katherine Howell – The Darkest Hour (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
57. Rosemary Martin – It’s a Mod Mod Mod Mod Murder (pub 2005, rating 3)
58. Elizabeth George – Careless in Red (pub 2009, rating 2.5)
59. Linda Fairstein – Killer Heat (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
60. Various authors – The Chopin Manuscript (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
61. Hailey Lind – Shooting Gallery (pub 2006, rating 3.5)
62. Charles Todd – Search the Dark (pub 2008, rating 4)
63. Leah Giarratano – Black Ice (pub 2009, rating 5)
64. Gianluca Morozzi – Black Out (pub 2008, rating 1)
65. Inger Ash Wolfe – The Calling (pub 2008, rating 4)
66. Lisa Gardner – Alone (pub 2008, rating 2)
67. Joanne Harris – Gentlemen and Players (pub 2006, rating 2)
68. Kate Summerscale – The Suspicions of Mr. Wicher (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
69. Michael Robotham – Shatter (pub 2008, rating 305)
70. Karen Alvtegen – Missing (pub 2006, rating 5)
71. Matt Rees – The Saladin Murders (pub 2008, rating 5)
72. Denise Mina – Garnethill (pub 1999, rating 5)
73. L.J. Sellers – The Sex Club (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
74. Elizabeth Peters – Crocodile on the Sandbank (pub 1975, rating 3.5)
75. P.D. Martin – Fan Mail (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
76. Jeff Abbott – Panic (pub 2006, rating 3)
77. Camilla Lackberg – The Ice Princess (pub 2009, rating 4)
78. Lee Child – Gone Tomorrow (pub 2009, rating 2)
79. Cynthia Baxter – Murder Packs a Suitcase (pub 2008, rating 2.5)
80. Reginald Hill – A Cure for all Diseases (pub 2009, rating 5)
81. Clare Langley-Hawthorne – Consequences of Sin (pub 2007, rating 4)
82. Phillip Gwynne – The Build Up (pub 2008, rating 5)
83. Carolyn Hart – Dead Days of Summer (pub 2006, rating 3)
84. Dick Francis – Silks (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
85. S.H. Couriter – Ligney’s Lake (pub 1971)
86. Colin Cotterill – The Coroner’s Lunch (pub 2005, rating 5)
87. Natsuo Kirino – Out (pub 2004, rating 2)
88. Jonathan Kellerman – Bones (pub 2009, rating 2)
89. Donna Moore – Go to Helena Handbasket (pub 2009, rating 4)
90. Stieg Larsson – The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (pub 2009, rating 5)
91. Joseph Telushkin – The Unorthodox Murder of Rabbi Wahl (pub 1987, rating 3.5)
92. Ann Cleeves – White Nights (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
93. Ake Edwardson – Frozen Tracks (pub 2008, rating 4)
94. Chris Grabenstein – Tilt A Whirl (pub 2007, rating 4)
95. Steve Martin – Born Standing Up (pub 2007, rating 3)
96. Dorothy Johnston – The Trojan Dog (pub 2000, rating 1)
97. Margot Kinberg – Publish or Perish (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
98. Various authors – The Copper Bracelet (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
99. Elaine Viets – Murder Between the Covers (rating 2.5)
100. Harlan Coben – Tell No One (pub 2000, rating 3.5)
101. Agatha Christie – Dead Man’s Folly (pub 1956, rating 4)
102. Henning Mankell – The Dogs of Riga (pub 1991, rating 4)
103. Ian Sansom – Mr Dixon Disappears (pub 2006, rating 3.5)
104. Karin Fossum – Don’t Look Back (pub 2002, rating 5)
105. Malla Nunn – A Beautiful Place to Die (pub 2008, rating 5)
106. Linda Castillo – Sworn to Silence (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
107. Linwood Barclay – Too Close to Home (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
108. Yrsa Sigurdardottier – Last Rituals (pub 2008, rating 4)
109. Ellis Peters – A Morbid Taste for Bones (pub 1977, rating 3.5)
110. Chris Grabenstein – Mad Mouse (pub 2007, rating 4)
111. Jarad Henry – Blood Sunset (pub 2008, rating 4)
112. Sandra Brown – Chill Factor (pub 2005, rating 1)
113. Susan Hill – The Various Haunts of Men (pub 2005, rating 4)
114. Valerie S Malmont – Death, Lies, and Apple Pies (pub 1997, rating 3.5)
115. Rebecca Tope – Blood in the Cotswolds (pub 2008, rating 3)
116. Kerry Greenwood – Forbidden Fruit
117. Timothy Hallinan – The Fourth Watcher (pub 2008, rating 4.5)
118. Dorothy Gilman – The Amazing Mrs Pollifax (pub 1971, rating 3.5)
119. Louise Doughty – An English Murder (pub 1998, rating 2)