2010 Reviews

Books reviewed in 2010, listed in the order I read them [A=Audio Book]

1. Asa Larsson – The Black Path (pub 2008, rating 4)
2. Sue Grafton – U is for Undertow A (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
3. Mehmet Murat Somer – The Prophet Murders (pub 2003, rating 2.5)
4. Gene Kerrigan – The Midnight Choir A (pub 2007, rating 4.5)
5. Patricia Moyes – Falling Star (pub 1962, rating 3)
6. Jacqueline Winspear – Maisie Dobbs (pub 2003, rating 2)
7. Vicky Delany – Winter of Secrets A (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
8. Jim Kelly – Death Wore White A (pub 2008, rating 3)
9. Agatha Christie – The Mirror Crack’d From Side to Side A (pub 1962, rating 2.5)
10. P.D. Martin – The Killing Hands (pub 2009, rating 4)
11. Chris Grabenstein – Whack A Mole A (pub 2007, rating 4.5)
12. Rob Kitchin – The Rule Book (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
13. Ariana Franklin – Mistress of the Art of Death (pub 2007, rating 5)
14. Nancy Martin – How to Murder a Millionaire (pub 2002, rating 2.5)
15. Matt Dickinson – Black Ice (pub 2002, rating 3.5)
16. Sarah Atwell – Snake in the Glass (pub 2009, rating 3)
17. Colleen McCullough – Too Many Murders A (pub 2009, rating 4)
18. Martin Edwards – The Coffin Trail (pub 2005, rating 4)
19. Susan Hill – The Pure in Heart A (pub 2002, rating 4)
20. Agatha Christie – Evil Under the Sun A (pub 1941, rating 3)
21. Caro Ramsay – Singing to the Dead (pub 2009, rating 4)
22. George Pelecanos – The Way Home A (pub 2009, rating 4)
23. Jeffrey Siger – Murder in Mykonos (pub 2009, rating 2)
24. Nevada Barr – Borderline A (pub 2009, rating 4)
25. Barbara Fister – On Edge (pub 2002, rating 4)
26. Christian Jungersen – The Exception (pub 2006, rating 3)
27. Karen Maitland – Company of Liars A (pub 2009, rating 4)
28. Martin Edwards – Dancing for the Hangman A (pub 2008, rating 4.5)
29. Michael Stanley – A Carrion Death (pub 2008, rating 4)
30. Sara Paretsky – Hardball (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
31. Lindy Kelly – Bold Blood (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
32. S.J. Bolton – Awakening (pub 2009, rating 5)
33. Patricia Hall – Death in a Far Country A (pub 2007, rating 2.5)
34. Agatha Christie – Sad Cypress A (pub 1940, rating 3.5)
35. Colin Cotterill – Thirty Three Teeth (pub 2007, rating 4.5)
36. Deon Meyer – Dead at Daybreak A (pub 2000, rating 4)
37. Kathryn Fox – Blood Born (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
38. Luis Miguel Rocha – The Last Pope (pub 2008, rating 0.5)
39. Sarah Andres – In Cold Pursuit (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
40. Arnaldur Indriðason – Hypothermia (pub 2009, rating 5)
41. Philip Kerr – If the Dead Rise Not A (pub 2009, rating 2)
42. Margot Kinberg – B-Very Flat (pub 2010, rating 4)
43. Robin Bowles – The Curse of the Golden Yo-Yo (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
44. Denise Mina – Still Midnight A (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
45. Alex Scarrow – Last Light (pub 2007, rating 4)
46. Chris Grabenstein – Slay Ride A (pub 2006, rating 4)
47. Leif Davidsen – The Serbian Dane (pub 1996, rating 4)
48. Agatha Christie – The Mysterious Affair at Styles A (pub 1920, rating 4.5)
49. Glen Peters – Mrs D’Silva’s Detective Instincts and the Shaitan of Calcutta (pub 2009, rating 4)
50. Michele Giuttari – A Death in Tuscany (pub 2005, rating 2)
51. Jackie Fullerton – Revenge Served Cold (pub 2010, rating 3)
52. Shona MacLean – The Redemption of Alexander Seaton A (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
53. Claudia Pineiro – Thursday Night Widows (pub 2005, rating 4)
54. Håkan Nesser – The Mind’s Eye (pub 1993, rating 4)
55. Michael Harvey – The Third Rail (pub 2010, rating 3)
56. Elly Griffiths – The Crossing Places A (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
57. Quintin Jardine – Inhuman Remains (pub 2009, rating 2)
58. Ann Waldron – The Princeton Murders (pub 2003, rating 2)
59. Simon Lelic – A Thousand Cuts (pub 2010, rating 5)
60. Reginald Hill – Midnight Fugue A (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
61. Malla Nunn – Let the Dead Lie (pub 2010, rating 4)
62. Chris Grabenstein – Hell Hole A (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
63. Brian Kavanagh – Bloody Ham (pub 2007, rating 3.5)
64. Harlan Coben – Caught A (pub 2010, rating 2.5)
65. Rob Kitchin – The White Gallows (pub 2010, rating 4)
66. Paco Ignacio Taibo II – The Uncomfortable Dead (pub 2005, rating 3)
67. Belinda Bauer – Blacklands (pub 2009, rating 4.5)
68. Johan Theorin – The Darkest Room (pub 2009, rating 5)
69. Lynn Harris – Death by Chick Lit (pub 2007, rating 3)
70. Tonino Benacquista – Badfellas (pub 2004, rating 3.5)
71. Michael Robotham – Bleed for Me (pub 2010, rating 2)
72. Leah Giarratano – Watch the World Burn (pub 2010, rating 4)
73. Linda Castillo – Pray for Silence A (pub 2010, rating 2)
74. Andrea Camilleri – August Heat (pub 2009, rating 3)
75. Teresa Solana – A Not So Perfect Crime (pub 2006, rating 4)
76. Julie Hyzy – Eggsecutive Orders (pub 2010, rating 3)
77. Deon Meyer – Thirteen Hours (pub 2008, rating 5)
78. Adrian Hyland – Gunshot Road (pub 2010, rating 5)
79. John Hart – The Last Child A (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
80. Sulari Gentill – A Few Right Thinking Men (pub 2010, rating 3.5)
81. Simone van der Vlugt – The Reunion (pub 2004, rating 3.5)
82. Mario Vargas Llosa – Death in the Andes (pub 1996, rating 2)
83. Edward Marston – The Railway Detective (pub 2005, rating 3.5)
84. William Deverell – April Fool (pub 2005, rating 3.5)
85. R J Ellory – A Simple Act of Violence A (pub 2009, rating 2)
86. P M Newton – The Old School (pub 2010, rating 4)
87. Bateman – Mystery Man (pub 2009, rating 4)
88. Maj Sjowall & Per Wahloo – Roseanna (pub 1965, rating 3.5)
89. Agatha Christie – Death Comes as the End A (pub 1945, rating 2.5)
90. Margaret Truman – Murder at the Kennedy Center (pub 1989, rating 3)
91. Stef Penny – The Tenderness of Wolves (pub 2006, rating 3.5)
92. Stuart Neville – The Ghosts of Belfast (a.k.a. The Twelve) A (pub 2009, rating 2.5)
93. Margie Orford – Blood Rose (pub 2007, rating 3)
94. Henning Mankell – The Man from Beijing (pub 2010, rating 4)
95. Mary Jane Maffini – The Devil’s in the Details (pub 2004, rating 3.5)
96. Peter Klein – Punter’s Turf A (pub 2010, rating 3.5)
97. James Thompson – Snow Angels (pub 2010, rating 3)
98. Ken Bruen – The Dramatist A (pub 2003, rating 5)
99. Ruth Rendell – The Monster in the Box A (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
100. Charlotte Jay – Beat Not the Bones (pub 1952, rating 3.5)
101. Nigel McCrery – Tooth and Claw (pub 2009, rating 3)
102. Michael Palmer – Side Effects (pub 1984, rating 3.5)
103. Robin Spano – Dead Politician Society (pub 2010, rating 3)
104. Jo Nesbo – The Redbreast (pub 2006, rating 4.5)
105. Ann Cleeves – Red Bones A (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
106. Robert Engwerda – The Mosquito Coast (pub 2010, rating 4)
107. Inger Ash Wolfe – The Taken (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
108. Linwood Barclay – Never Look Away A (pub 2010, rating 4)
109. Shuichi Yoshida – Villain (pub 2007, rating 4)
110. Catherine Hunter – The Dead of Midnight (pub 2001, rating 3.5)
111. Martin Edwards – The Arsenic Labyrinth A (pub 2007, rating 4)
112. Dominique Manotti – Affairs of State (pub 2001, rating 3)
113. Arnaldur Indriðason – Operation Napoleon (pub 1999, rating 4)
114. Kwei Quartey – Wife of the Gods (pub 2009, rating 4)
115. Vicky Delany – Negative Image (pub 2010, rating 3.5)
116. The Blood Detective – Dan Waddell (pub 2008, rating 3.5)
117. Anne Zouroudi – The Messenger of Athens A (pub 2010, rating 3)
118. Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Rosa – Southwesterly Wind (pub 2004, rating 4)
119. C J Box – Three Weeks to Say Goodbye A (pub 2009, rating 3)
120. Imogen Robertson – Instruments of Darkness (pub 2009, rating 4)
121. Elly Griffiths – The Janus Stone (pub 2010, rating 4.5)
122. Clare Langley-Hawthorne – The Serpent and the Scorpion (pub 2010, rating 3.5)
123. Gail Bowen – A Colder Kind of Death (pub 1994, rating 3.5)
124. Vanda Symon – Containment (pub 2009, rating 3.5)
125. Zoe Ferraris – The Night of the Mi’raj (pub 2008, rating 3)
126. Yrsa Sigurdardottir – My Soul to Take (pub 2006, rating 4)
127. M R Hall – The Disappeared A (pub 2010, rating 2.5)
128. Lindy Cameron – Redback (pub 2007, rating 4)
129. Elena Forbes – Our Lady of Pain A (pub 2009, rating 3)
130. Cleo Coyle – Holiday Grind (pub 2009, rating 3)
131. Brian Kavanagh – A Canterbury Crime (pub 2010, rating 3.5)
132. Robert Harris – The Ghost (pub 2007, rating 2.5)
133. Carolyn Hart – Dead Man’s Island (pub 1993, rating 3)
134. Nevada Barr – Hunting Season A (pub 2004, rating 4)
135. Giles Blunt – Forty Words for Sorrow (pub 2002, rating 3.5)
136. Gabrielle Lord – Lethal Factor (pub 2003, rating 3.5)
137. Dick Francis – The Edge A (pub 1988, rating 4)
138. Chris Grabenstein – Rolling Thunder A (pub 2010, rating 3.5)
139. Tom Rob Smith – The Secret Speech (pub 2009, rating 3)
140. Barbara Fister – In the Wind (pub 2008, rating 4)
141. Rory Clements – Martyr (pub 2009, rating 4)
142. Michael Connelly – The Overlook (pub 2007, rating 3.5)