Here are all the book reviews on Cafethinking, in order of author surname and then by date of review (series are kept in order). If you click on a link it may open in a new tab or window.
Fiction
Heidi Amsinck – My Name is Jensen
Heidi Amsinck – Back from the Dead
Heidi Amsinck – Out of the Dark
Lin Anderson – The Killing Tide
Lin Anderson – Whispers of the Dead
Lin Anderson – The Dead and the Dying
Ewald Arenz tr Rachel Ward – Tasting Sunlight
Margaret Atwood – The Handmaid’s Tale
Cheryl Denise Bannerman – Cats, Cannolis and a Curious Kidnapping
Alexander Baron – From the City, From the Plough
Alexander Baron – There’s No Home
Alexander Baron – The Human Kind
Stella Blómkvist tr Quentin Bates – Murder at the Residence
Stella Blómkvist tr Quentin Bates – Murder under the Midnight Sun
Stella Blómkvist tr Quentin Bates – Murder Tide
Gwenda Bond – Stranger Things: Suspicious Minds
Roxanne Bouchard – We Were the Salt of the Sea
Roxanne Bouchard – The Coral Bride
Roxanne Bouchard tr David Warriner – Whisper of the Seals
William Boyle – City of Margins
Philip Brady – The Meal of Fortune
Verity Bright – A Very English Murder
Verity Bright – Death at the Dance
Verity Bright – A Witness to Murder
Verity Bright – Murder in the Snow
Verity Bright – Mystery by the Sea
Verity Bright – Murder at the Fair
Verity Bright – A Lesson in Murder
Steph Broadribb – Deep Down Dead
Steph Broadribb – Deep Blue Trouble
Steph Broadribb – Deep Dirty Truth
Steph Broadribb – Deep Dark Night
Simone Buchholz – Mexico Street
Simone Buchholz – Hotel Cartagena
Paul Burston – The Closer I Get
Andrea Camilleri – The Age of Doubt (Inspector Montalbano)
Gianrico Carofiglio – The Measure of Time
Gianrico Carofiglio – A Walk in the Dark
Chris Carter – Written in Blood
Will Carver – Psychopaths Anonymous
Will Carver – The Daves Next Door
Paul Cleave – The Quiet People
Paul Cleave – The Pain Tourist
Ann Cleeves – The Raging Storm
Jonathan Coe – What a Carve Up!
Jonathan Coe – The Proof of My Innocence
Catherine Cooper – The Penthouse
Amy Cunningham – The Serial Killer’s Party
Neil Cross – Luther: The Calling
Kjell Ola Dahl – The Ice Swimmer
Kjell Ola Dahl – The Assistant
Kjell Ola Dahl – Little Drummer
Abigail Dean – The Death of Us
Jeffery Deaver – The Final Twist
Louise Doughty – Platform Seven
Elsa Drucaroff tr Slava Faybysh – Rodolfo Walsh’s Last Case
Martin Edwards (ed) – Vintage Crime, a Crime Writers’ Association Anthology
Peter Elstob – Warriors for the working day
Monica Felton – To All The Living
Helen Fitzgerald – Ash Mountain
Helen Fitzgerald – Keep Her Sweet
Tess Gerritsen – The Spy Coast
Robert Greenwood – Mr Bunting at War
Óskar Guðmundsson – The Commandments
Paul E Hardisty – Turbulent Wake
Michael Hardwick – Bergerac: the Jersey cop
Charles Harris – The Breaking of Liam Glass
Mick Herron – The Drop / The Marylebone Drop
Mick Herron – The Last Dead Letter
Mick Herron – Standing by the Wall
Mick Herron – The Secret Hours
Anthony Horowitz – The Word is Murder
Anthony Horowitz – The Sentence is Death
Anthony Horowitz – A Line to Kill
Anthony Horowitz – The Twist of a Knife
Anthony Horowitz – Close to Death
Anthony Horowitz – Moonflower Murders
Bohumil Hrabal – Closely Watched Trains
Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger – Death Deserved
Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger – Smoke Screen
Jørn Lier Horst and Thomas Enger – Unhinged
Celia Imrie – Orphans of the Storm
Arnaldur Indridason – Jar City (not really a review)
Lisa Jewell – Then She Was Gone
Lisa Jewell – Watching You – and a bonus post on the ending
Lisa Jewell – The Family Upstairs
Lisa Jewell – The Night She Disappeared
Lisa Jewell – The Family Remains
Lisa Jewell – None of this is true
Lisa Jewell – Don’t Let Him In
Doug Johnstone – A Dark Matter
Doug Johnstone – The Big Chill
Doug Johnstone – The Great Silence
Ragnar Jónasson tr Larissa Kyzer – Fadeout
Ragnar Jónasson – Snowblind and a bonus Snowblind at 10
Ragnar Jónasson – The Girl Who Died
Katrín Júlíusdóttir tr Quentin Bates – Dead Sweet
Katrín Júlíusdóttir tr Larissa Kyzer – Stop Dead
Toshikazu Kawaguchi tr Geoffrey Trousselot – Before the coffee gets cold
Danuta Kot – Someone who isn’t me
Antonia Lassa tr Jacky Collins – Skin Deep
Jónína Leósdóttir tr Sylvia Bates and Quentin Bates – Deceit
Torquil MacLeod – Meet me in Malmö
Torquil MacLeod – Murder in Malmö
Torquil MacLeod – Missing in Malmö
Torquil MacLeod – Midnight in Malmö
Torquil MacLeod – Menace in Malmö
Luke McCallin – The Ashes of Berlin
W H S McIntyre – Good News Bad News
Jenny Lund Madsen tr Megan Turney – Thirty Days of Darkness
Jenny Lund Madsen tr Paul Russell Garrett – Under the Blazing Sun
Amulya Malladi – A Death in Denmark
Michael J Malone – A Suitable Lie
Michael J Malone – A Song of Isolation
Michael J Malone – Quicksand of Memory
Sarra Manning – The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp
Seichō Matsumoto tr Jesse Kirkwood – Tokyo Express
Jon Michelet – The Frozen Woman
Tony Mott tr Marina Sofia – Deadly Autumn Harvest
Sólveig Pálsdóttir tr Quentin Bates – Shrouded
Alan Parks – Bobby March will live forever
Charlotte Printz tr Marina Sofia – Nightingale and Co
Anthony Quayle – Eight Hours from England
Agnes Ravatn – The Bird Tribunal
Agnes Ravatn – The Seven Doors
Anthony Rhodes – Sword of Bone
Ally Rose – The River Runs Red
David F Ross – There’s only one Danny Garvey
Andrew Saville – Crimes of the Season
Andrew Saville – Bergerac and the Traitor’s Child
Andrew Saville – Bergerac and the Moving Fever
Peter Schneider – The Wall Jumper
Lilja Sigarðardóttir – Reykjavik Noir Trilogy: Snare, Trap and Cage
Lilja Sigarðardóttir – Betrayal
Lilja Sigarðardóttir – Cold as Hell
Lilja Sigurðardóttir tr Lorenza Garcia – Black as Death
Yrsa Sigarðardóttir – The Doll
Gunnar Staalesen – Fallen Angels
Gunnar Staalesen – We shall inherit the wind
Gunnar Staalesen – Wolves in the Dark
Gunnar Staalesen – Wolves at the Door
Gunnar Staalesen – Bitter Flowers
Elleston Trevor – Squadron Airborne
Antti Tuomainen – The Man Who Died
Antti Tuomainen – Palm Beach Finland
Antti Tuomainen – Little Siberia
Antti Tuomainen – The Rabbit Factor
Antti Tuomainen tr David Hackston – The Moose Paradox
Antti Tuomainen tr David Hackston – The Beaver Theory
Antti Tuomainen tr David Hackston – The Burning Stones
Antti Tuomainen tr David Hackston – The Winter Job
Ruth Ware – One Perfect Couple
Elizabeth Wilson – The Girl in Berlin
Satoshi Yagisawa tr Eric Ozawa – Days at the Morisaki Bookshop
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir – The Creak on the Stairs
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir – Girls Who Lie
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir tr Victoria Cribb – Night Shadows
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir tr Victoria Cribb – You Can’t See Me
Eva Björg Ægisdóttir tr Victoria Cribb – Boys Who Hurt
Non-fiction
Andrew Adonis – Five Days in May
Martin Amis – The Moronic Inferno
Mark Bright – My Story: from foster care to footballer
Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell – The Cult of We
Richard E Burke with William and Marilyn Hoffer – The Senator: My Ten Years with Ted Kennedy
Nick Bryant – When America stopped being great: a history of the present
Shaun Bythell – Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Thurston Clarke – The Last Campaign: Robert F Kennedy and 82 days that inspired America
David N Clough – Dr Beeching’s Remedy: A Cure for a Century of the Railway’s Ills
Peter Carey – Wrong about Japan
Anthony Cheetham – The Life and Death of Richard III
Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman – This Way Up: when maps go wrong (and why it matters)
Matthew d’Ancona – Post Truth: the new war on truth and how to fight back
Grace Dent – How to leave Twitter: my time as Queen of the Universe and why this must stop
Jason Farrell and Paul Goldsmith – How to Lose a Referendum
Lewis Goodall – Left for Dead?
Philip Gould – The Unfinished Revolution
Camilla Hammerich – The Borgen Experience
Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer – No Rules Rules: Netflix and the culture of reinvention
Claire Handscombe (ed) – Walk with Us
Isabel Hardman – Why We Get the Wrong Politicians
Charles Helfenstein – The Making of On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Charles Helfenstein – The Making of The Living Daylights
Dan Hodges – One Minute to Ten
Greg Hoffman – Emotion by Design: Creative leadership lessons from a life at Nike
Harald Jähner tr Shaun Whiteside – Aftermath: Life in the fallout of the Third Reich 1945-1955
Andrew Jeffrey – Mastering Numbers
Naomi Klein – No is Not Enough
Denis MacShane – Must Labour Always Lose?
Andrew Martin – Metropolitain: an ode to the Paris Metro
Max Mckeown – The Strategy Book
John Nettles – Bergerac’s Jersey
John Nettles – Nudity in a public place: confessions of a mini-celebrity
John O’Farrell – Things can only get worse?
Craig Oliver – Unleashing Demons
Vicki Pipe and Geoff Marshall – The Railway Adventures
Caroline Roope – The history of the London Underground map
Amanda Rosewarne – The Power of Continuing Professional Development
David Runciman – Where Power Stops: The Making and Unmaking of Presidents and Prime Ministers
Gareth Southgate and Andy Woodman with David Walsh – Woody and Nord: a football friendship
Will Storr – The Science of Storytelling
Stephanie Vanderslice – The Geek’s Guide to the Writing Life
Chris Winter – Crystal Palace FC 1969-2021: Complete Biased Commentary
Gary Younge – The Speech: the story behind Martin Luther King’s dream