Ali

Another excellently crafted detective novel from Galbraith. Tightly plotted, barely a spare word anywhere, vivid descriptions abounding, great dialogue, dark humour too in places. Also, I am really enjoying seeing the wonderful relationship between Strike and Robin develop, and hearing about Strike's old school and army buddies.

‘On April 29th, 1945, the allies unconditionally surrendered to Nazi Germany. Four hours later that surrender was withdrawn...‘[return][return]It was the above tagline that made me pick up the book, and it was such a good purchase. It had been a long time since I was unable to put a book down until I'd finished it, but had to do it in this case. Absolutely brilliant idea, really well executed. Thoroughly recommended.

One of my mum's favourite books, I finally got around to reading it myself. I enjoyed the story, but found myself shocked at the outstanding sexism in the way Jean is considered incapable of handling her own finances where her inheritance is concerned, but once she is married there's no problem because the man can deal with it all. Huh.