Title Index

4.50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie

100 Days on Holy Island: a Writer’s Exile by Peter Mortimer

A

The ABC Murders by Agatha Christie

Admit One by Emmett James

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

After the Fine Weather by Michael Gilbert

After Work (a cookbook)

Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days by Jared Cade

Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House by M C Beaton

All Bones and Lies by Anne Fine

All the Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson

The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman

Among the Mad by Jacqueline Winspear

An Autobiography by Agatha Christie

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner

Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk

The Art of Drowning by Frances Fyfield

Awakening by S J Bolton

B

Bad Science by Ben Goldacre

The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning

Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan

Beachcombing by Maggie Dana

The Beacon by Susan Hill

The Behaviour of Moths by Poppy Adams

The Bell by Iris Murdoch

Berenice by Edgar Allen Poe

Betrayed in Cornwall by Janie Bolitho

The Birthday Present by Barbara Vine

The Black Book by Ian Rankin

Blessings by Anna Quindlen

Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates

The Blood Detective by Dan Waddell

Blood Harvest by S J Bolton

Blood Safari by Deon Meyer

Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King’s Daughter by Simon Brett

The Body in the Library by Agatha Christie

The Body on the Beach by Simon Brett

Body Parts: Essays on Life-Writing by Hermione Lee

The Body Snatcher by Robert Louis Stevenson

Body Surfing by Anita Shreve

The Book of Illusions by Paul Auster

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Books, Baguettes and Bedbugs: the Left Bank World of Shakespeare & Co by Jeremy Mercer

The Border Line by Eric Robson

The Brading Collection by Patricia Wentworth

The Bradshaw Variations by Rachel Cusk

Breakfast at the Hotel Deja Vu by Paul Torday

The Breaking Point: short stories by Daphne du Maurier

The Builders by Maeve Binchy

The Burry Man’s Day by Catriona McPherson

By the Pricking of My Thumbs by Agatha Christie

C

Cakes and Ale by W Somerset Maugham

The Careful Use of Compliments by Alexander McCall  Smith

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie

The Case of the Lame Canary by Erle Stanley Gardner

The Case of the Substitute Face by Erle Stanley Gardner

Castle Dor by Daphne Du Maurier

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

A Change in Altitude by Anita Shreve

Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Christine Kringle by Lynn Brittney

The Christmas Mystery by Jostein Gaarder

The Christmas Train by David Baldacci

Cider With Rosie by Laurie Lee

The Cipher Garden by Martin Edwards

Cleanskin by Val McDermid

Climbing the Bookshelves by Shirley Williams

The Clocks by Agatha Christie

The Clothes on their Backs by Linda Grant

A Clubbable Woman by Reginald Hill

The Clue of the Twisted Candle by Edgar Wallace

The Coffin Trail by Martin Edwards

Cold is the Grave by Peter Robinson

The Comfort of Saturdays by Alexander McCall Smith

Company of Liars by Karen Maitland

The Complaints by Ian Rankin

Cop Hater by Ed McBain

A Cool Head by Ian Rankin

Consequences by Penelope Lively

The Cosy Knave by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell – also here and here

Crime in the Community by Cecilia Peartree

The Crocodile Bird by Ruth Rendell

The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

Crow Lake by Mary Lawson

Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case by Agatha Christie

D

Daniel Isn’t Talking by Marti Leimbach

Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains by Catriona McPherson

Daphne by Margaret Forster

A Dark-Adapted Eye by Barbara Vine

Dead in the Morning by Margaret Yorke

Dead Man’s Folly by Agatha Christie

Dear Dodie by Valerie Grove

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie

Death of a Chief by Douglas Watt

Death of a Gossip by M C Beaton

Death of the Moth and Other Essays by Virginia Woolf – see also here

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie

Death’s Jest-Book by Reginald Hill

A Detective at Death’s Door by H R F Keating

Digging to America by Anne Tyler

The Divine Comedy by Dante

The Doctor of Thessaly by Anne Zouroudi

Doctored Evidence by Donna Leon

Doors Open by Ian Rankin

Down to a Sunless Sea by Mathias B Freese

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Drawing Conclusions by Donna Leon

Drood by Dan Simmons

Dumb Witness by Agatha Christie

E

Eden’s Outcasts: the story of Louisa May Alcott and her father by John Matteson

An Elegy for Easterly by Petina Gappah

Elephants Can Remember by Agatha Christie

Evil Under the Sun by Agatha Christie

Excursion to Tindari by Andrea Camilleri

An Expert in Murder by Nicola Upson

Exit Lines by Reginald Hill

Exit Music by Ian Rankin

F

Faceless Killers by Henning Mankell

Fair Exchange by Michèle Roberts

Faithful Unto Death by Caroline Graham

The Fall by Simon Mawer

The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd

Fallen Gods by Quintin Jardine

The Falls by Ian Rankin – see also here

A Fatal Inversion by Barbara Vine

Faulks on Fiction by Sebastian Faulks

A Feast for Advent by Delia Smith

Ferney by James Long

Fire in the Blood by Irene Nemirovsky

Fleshmarket Close by Ian Rankin

The Flight of the Falcon by Daphne Du Maurier

The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

Four Stories by Alan Bennett

The Franchise Affair by Josephine Tey

The Friend of Madame Maigret by Georges Simenon

Frozen Moment by Camilla Ceder

G

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The Gardens of the Dead by William Brodrick

Gently by the Shore by Alan Hunter

Gently Does It by Alan Hunter

Ghostwalk by Rebecca Stott

The Giant’s House by Elizabeth McCracken

The Girl on the Landing by Paul Torday

Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel

Going into a Dark House by Jane Gardam

Gone to Earth by Mary Webb

Good Evening, Mrs Craven: the Wartime Stories of Mollie Panter-Downes

A Good Hanging by Ian Rankin

The Good Thief’s Guide to Amsterdam by Chris Ewan

The Gourmet by Muriel Barbery

Le Grand Meaulnes by Alain-Fournier

The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates – also here

The Great Fortune by Olivia Manning

Great Ghost Stories by Various Authors

H

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Hanging Garden by Ian Rankin

The Hanging Wood by Martin Edwards

Heartland by John MacKay

Hearts and Minds by Amanda Craig

Hearts and Minds by Rosy Thornton

Heartstone by C J Sansom

Hector and the Search for Happiness by François Lelord

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Hercule Poirot’s Christmas by Agatha Christie

Hide and Seek by Ian Rankin

The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

The Historian and The Gibbon by Virginia Woolf

The Hollow by Agatha Christie

The Holly-Tree Inn by Charles Dickens

The Hostelry by Guy de Maupassant

The Hotel Majestic by Georges Simenon

The Hound of Death by Agatha Christie (short stories)

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton

The House at Seas End by Elly Griffiths

House of Silence by Linda Gillard

The House of Stairs by Barbara Vine

The House on the Strand by Daphne du Maurier

Howards End is on the Landing by Susan Hill

I

The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston

The Impossible Dead by Ian Rankin

In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore

Ink in the Blood by Hilary Mantel

Inspiration by Wayne Dyer

Intimate Kill by  Margaret Yorke

Invisible by Paul Auster

Is Anybody Up There? by Paul Arnott

Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott – for overall view see also this post

J

Jamie At Home by Jamie Oliver

James Herriot’s Cat Stories by James Herriot

Jane Austen: a Life by Claire Tomalin

The Janus Stone by Elly Griffiths

The Jigsaw Maker by Adrienne Dines

A Judgement in Stone by Ruth Rendell

K

Keeping His Promise by Algernon Blackwood

Keeping the World Away by Margaret Forster

King Arthur’s Bones by The Medieval Murderers

King of the Streets by John Baker

Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin

L

Ladies of Grace Adieu by Susanna Clarke

A Leap by Anna Enquist

Let it Bleed by Ian Rankin

Lewis Carroll: a biography by Morton Cohen

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Lock 14 by Georges Simenon

The Long Song by Andrea Levy

Losing You by Nicci French

A Lost Lady by Willa Cather

A Loyal Character Dancer by Qiu Xiaolong

M

The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon

The Madonna of the Almonds by Marina Fiorato

Maigret in Court by Georges Simenon

The Man in the Brown Suit by Agatha Christie

Man in the Dark by Paul Auster

The Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simenon

The Man Who Planted Trees by Jean Giono

The Matchmaker of Kenmare by Frank Delaney

Messenger of Truth by Jacqueline Winspear

The Mirror Crack’d from Side to Side by Agatha Christie

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

Missing Link by Joyce Holms

Mistress of the Art of Death by Ariana Franklin

Molly Fox’s Birthday by Deirdre Madden

The Moon and Sixpence by W Somerset Maugham

The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins

Mortal Causes by Ian Rankin

Mountains on the Moon by Michael Arthern

Mr Blossom’s Shop by Barbara Euphan Todd

Much in Evidence by Henry Cecil

Murder Being Once Done by Ruth Rendell

Murder in the Museum by Simon Brett

Murder is Easy by Agatha Christie

The Murder of the Mandarin by Arnold Bennett

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

Murder on the Eiffel Tower by Claude Izner

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie

The Music Room by William Fiennes

My Cleaner by Maggie Gee

My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of the Blue Train by Agatha Christie

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

N

The Naming of the Dead by Ian Rankin

Naming the Bones by Louise Welsh

Nefertiti by Michelle Moran

Nigella Bites by Nigella Lawson

No Longer at Ease by Chinua Achebe

Northern Lights by Philip Pullman

Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell (audio book)

Not Safe After Dark & other works by Peter Robinson

O

The Ode Less Travelled by Stephen Fry

Olalla by Robert Louis Stevenson

On Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski

One Fine Day by Mollie Panter-Downes

One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson

Operation Mincemeat by Ben Macintyre

Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders by Gyles Brandreth

Our Longest Days: A People’s History of the Second World War by the writers of Mass Observation

The Owl Service by Alan Garner

P

The Painted Veil by W Somerset Maugham

The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie

Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear

Pariah by Dave Zeltserman

Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie

Payment Deferred by Joyce Holms

The Perfect Summer: Dancing into Shadow in 1911 by Juliet Nicolson

Perfume: the story of a murderer by Patrick Süskind

Peril at End House by Agatha Christie

Playing with the Moon by Eliza Graham

The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl

Poetic Lives: Shelley by Daniel Hahn

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Pompeii by Robert Harris

Portobello by Ruth Rendell

Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

The Private Lives of the Impressionists by Sue Roe

The Private Patient by P D James

Q

A Question of Blood by Ian Rankin

Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre

R

The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe

Raven Black by Ann Cleeves

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

The Rebecca Notebook and Other Memories by Daphne Du Maurier

Rebus’s Scotland by Ian Rankin

Reflections at Sheffield Place by Virginia Woolf

Remainder by Tom McCarthy

Remember Me by Melvyn Bragg

Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin

Revelation by C J Sansom

Revenge Served Cold by Jackie Fullerton

The Riddle of the River by Catherine Shaw

The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith

The Road to Nab End by William Woodruff

The Rose of Sebastopol by Katherine McMahon

S

 

 

Sacrifice by S J Bolton

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Season of the Witch by Natasha Mostert

The Secret Adversary by Agatha Christie

The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry

Seeking Whom He May Devour by Fred Vargas

The Serpent Pool by Martin Edwards

Set in Darkness by Ian Rankin – see also here

A Severed Head by Iris Murdoch

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx

The Sidmouth Letters by Jane Gardam

The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn by Colin Dexter

The Sixth Wife by Suzannah Dunn

Skipping Christmas by John Grisham

Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie

The Small Hand by Susan Hill

Snapped in Cornwall by Janie Bolitho

Solstice by Joyce Carol Oates

Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill

Sons and Lovers by D H Lawrence

The Spare Room by Helen Garner

Speaking of Love by Angela Young

A Splash of Red by Antonia Fraser

The Stabbing in the Stables by Simon Brett

Star Gazing by Linda Gillard

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse

Stillmeadow and Sugarbridge by Gladys Taber and Barbara Webster – also here

Strange Affair by Peter Robinson

The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman

Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky

A Summer Bird-Cage by Margaret Drabble

The Sunday Philosophy Club by Alexander McCall Smith

Surveillance by Jonathan Raban

The Suspicions of Mr Whicher by Kate Summerscale

T

Take My Breath Away by Martin Edwards

Taken at the Flood by Agatha Christie

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe

Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson

Tangled Roots by Sue Guiney

The Tapestry of Love by Rosy Thornton

The Tent, the Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy

The Testament of Gideon Mack by James Robertson – see also here

Testimony by Anita Shreve

Theft by Peter Carey

They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie

Thirteen Hours by Deon Meyer

The Thirteen Problems by Agatha Christie

The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Ticket to Ride by Janet Neel

Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

Tigerlily’s Orchids by Ruth Rendell

The Tinder Box by Minette Walters

Toast by Nigel Slater

Tom Fleck: a Novel of Cleveland and Flodden by Harry Nicholson

Tony and Susan by Austin Wright

Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster

True Grit by Charles Portis

Turbulence by Giles Foden

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

Two Moons by Jennifer Johnston

U

An Unsuitable Job for a Woman by P D James

V

The Verneys by Adrian Tinniswood

The Very Thought of You by Rosie Alison

The View from Castle Rock by Alice Munro

W

The Warrior’s Princess by Barbara Erskine

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

Westwood by Stella Gibbons

Whatever You Love by Louise Doughty

When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies by Andy Beckett

When Will There Be Good News? by  Kate Atkinson

Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers

Wherever You Go by Joan Leegant

White Noise by Don Delillo

Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? by Agatha Christie

The Widow’s Tale by Mick Jackson

Wilberforce by John Pollock – also see here

Wilful Behaviour by Donna Leon

William, William by Edgar Allen Poe (short story)

Winter in Madrid by C J Sansom

Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle

Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

Wycliffe and the Last Rites by W J Burley

X

X, Y, Z: a Story Told by a Detective by Anna Katherine Green

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