Books Read in 2012

January

• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 4/5 (Kindle – from TBR bks)
• The Help by Kathryn Stockett 5/5  (from TBR bks)
• The Burry Man’s Day by Catriona McPherson 4/5 (library book)
• Beacon Hill by Michael Weaver (Kindle)
• The Bones of Avalon by Phil Rickman 3.5/5 (Kindle)
• One, Two, Buckle My Shoe by Agatha Christie (Poirot) 4.5/5

February

• Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (Miss Marple) 4/5 (from TBR bks)
• The Safe House by Nicci French 3.5 (from TBR bks)
• The Sensation Novel by Lyn Pykett 4/5 (library book)
• The Arrow Chest by Robert Parry 3/5 (from TBR bks – author review copy)
• The Jigsaw Maker by Adrienne Dines 4.5/5 (from TBR bks)
• Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski 5/5
• After the Armistice Ball by Catriona McPherson 3/5 (library book)
• Standing Water by Terri Armstrong 4.5/5 (review copy)
• Death comes to Pemberley by P D James 2/5 (library book)

March

•  The Labours of Hercules by Agatha Christie 4/5 (Poirot)
• Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain 4/5
• The Victorian Chaise-Longue by Marghanita Laski 3/5 (library book)
• The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi 4/5 (Kindle from TBR bks)
• Before the Poison by Peter Robinson 4/5 (library book)
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 5/5 (re-read)
• The Inspector’s Daughter by Alanna Knight 3.5/5 (library book)
• The Parasites by Daphne du Maurier 3/5 (from TBR bks)
• Daphne by Justine Picardie 4/5 (from TBR bks)

April

• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 4/5 (from TBR bks)
• The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie 3/5 (Poirot)
• Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte 3/5 (Kindle) – see also here
• The Hanging Valley by Peter Robinson 3/5 (from TBR bks)
• The Village by Marghanita Laski 5/5 (borrowed from a friend)
• Daphne du Maurier: a Daughter’s Memoir by Flavia Leng (library book) 3.5/5
• Ninepins by Rosy Thornton (author review copy) 4/5
• A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel 4/5 (from TBR bks)

May

•  Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death by W J Burley 4/5
• The End of the Affair by Graham Greene 3/5
• Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie 3.5/5
• The Redeemed by M R Hall (library book) 4.5/5
• Blue Lightning by Ann Cleeves (audiobook & Kindle) 4/5
• The Hanging in the Hotel by Simon Brett (audiobook) 2/5
• Fatherland by Robert Harris 5/5
• Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel 4/5
• The Sign of Four by Arthur Conan Doyle 3/5
• The Coroner by M R Hall (library book) 4/5
• Dandy Gilver and an Unsuitable Day for a Murder by Catriona McPherson 3/5 (advanced reading copy)

June

•  Red Bones by Ann Cleeves (library book) 4/5
• A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh (library book) 3/5
• A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (Kindle) 5/5 also this post
• A Cold Day for Murder by Dana Stabenow (Kindle) 3/5
• A Weekend with Mr Darcy by Victoria Connelly 2.5/5
• Endless Night by Agatha Christie 4/5 (from TBR bks)
• The Secret River by Kate Grenville 5/5 (from TBR bks)
• A Quiet Life by Beryl Bainbridge 5/5
• Now You See Me by S J Bolton 4/5

July

• A is for Alibi by Sue Grafton 4/5
• Bad Boy by Peter Robinson 3/5 (library books)
• The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon 5/5 (from TBR bks)
• Death at the President’s Lodging by Michael Innes 4/5
• A Mercy by Toni Morrison 3/5
• Dead Simple by Peter James 4/5 (from TBR bks)
• The Glass Guardian by Linda Gillard 4.5/5 (Kindle)
• The Flight by M R Hall (library book) 2/5

August

•  Lord Edgware Dies by Agatha Christie 4/5
• Started Early, Took my Dog by Kate Atkinson (library book) 4/5
• Postern of Fate by Agatha Christie 2/5
• Guilty Consciences edited by Martin Edwards (library book) 4/5
• A Room Full of Bones by Elly Griffiths 4/5
• The Girl on the Stairs by Louise Welsh 4.5/5
• Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens 3.5/5 (from TBR books)
• The Old Man in the Corner by Baroness Orczy (ebook) 3/5

September

• A Card from Angela Carter by Susannah Clapp (library book) 3/5
• Death of a Red Heroine by Qiu Xialong (from TBR books) 3.5/5
• Dark Matter: a Ghost Story by Michelle Paver 4/5 (from TBR books)
• As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning by Laurie Lee 4/5 (borrowed from a friend)
• The Sixth Lamentation by William Brodrick 4.5/5 (from TBR books)
• A Rose for Winter by Laurie Lee 3/5 (borrowed from a friend)
• Maigret and the Ghost by Georges Simenon 4/5 (library book)
• New Light on Floddon by Gerard T Leather 4/5 (borrowed from a friend)
• The War of the Worlds by H G Wells 4/5 (from TBR books)
• The Four Last Things by Andrew  Taylor 4/5

October

• The Judgement of Strangers by Andrew Taylor 4/5
• Dancing Backwards by Salley Vickers 3.5/5 (library book) 
• Fear in the Sunlight by Nicola Upson 3/5 (library book)
• The Chalk Circle Man by Fred Vargas 4.5/5 (library book)
• Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan 3/5
• The House of Silk by Anthony Horowitz 4/5
• Hickory Dickory Dock by Agatha Christie 4.5/5
• Mrs Harris MP by Paul Gallico 4/5
• A Short History of Scotland by Richard Killeen 4/5 (from TBR books)
• The Expats by Chris Pavone 3.5/5

November

• Murder by Yew by Suzanne Young 3.5/5
• The Whispers of Nemesis by Anne Zouroudi 3.5/5 (from TBR books)
• The Warden by Anthony Trollope 4/5
• Standing in Another Man’s Grave by Ian Rankin 4/5
• Adventures of a One-Breasted Woman by Susan Cummings 4/5
• At Bertram’s Hotel by Agatha Christie 4/5
• Full Tilt: Dunkirk to Delhi by Bicycle by Dervla Murphy 3/5

December

•  The Accomplice by Elizabeth Ironside 4.5/5 (library book)
• Silent Voices by Ann Cleeves 5/5 (library book)
• After the Funeral by Agatha Christie 5/5
• Skipping Christmas by John Grisham 4/5 (a re-read)
• Ratburger by David Walliams 4/5
• The Day Gone By: an Autobiography by Richard Adams 3/5 (from TBR books)
• Paw Tracks in the Moonlight by Denis O€™Connor 5/5 (Kindle lending library)
• Anna Marklin€™s Family Chronicles by Dorte Hummelshoj Jakobsen 4/5
• Wycliffe and Death in a Salubrious Place by W J Burley 3/5 (library book)