The Last Devil to Die
★★★★★
A friend of Elizabeth’s husband, Stephen, has been killed, and a package he was protecting is now missing
My Man Jeeves
★★★★★
A collection of short stories which include among the first appearances Bertie Wooster and his superlative valet Jeeves
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
★★★★★
The first novel by Dame Agatha, and also the first in which the iconic Poirot makes an appearance
Fooled by Randomness
★★★☆☆
A treatise on the role of randomness in all ventures, and how everyone often models all behaviour on repeating that one random outcome
City of Bones
★☆☆☆☆
A young girl accidentally steps into a world of magic and discovers a lot about herself and her family
The Alchemist
★☆☆☆☆
A young shepherd follows his dreams, quite literally, and learns alchemy along the way.
Flood of Fire
★★★★★
The conclusion of the magnificent Ibis trilogy, and another foray into the language and history of the British Raj
The Black Echo
★★★★☆
LA detective and Vietnam vet Harry Bosch is called in to examine a body found in a drainage tunnel, but the case hits closer to home when he recognises the body as an old comrade
Behind Her Eyes
★★★★★
A doctor's secretary is having an affair with the doctor, while being a close confidant of his wife.
Little Women
★★★☆☆
A coming-of-age novel set around the American Civil war, detailing the lives of four sisters from childhood to womanhood.
Flowers for Algernon
★★★★★
A diary of an intellectually challenged young man detailing his experience being part of an experimental procedure to increase his intelligence
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
★★★★☆
An absent minded engineer's reality comes crashing down, and he ropes in the mysterious detective Dirk Gently to make sense of it