Pakūranga College

74,502 pages read and 2,934 team points

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Silent Bones

By Val McDermid

0 stars
Death on Cromer Beach

By Ross Greenwood

0 stars
Stop Them Dead

By Peter James

4 stars
The Frozen People

By Elly Griffiths

4 stars
The Last Secret Agent

By Pippa Latour with Jude Dobson

4 stars
Driving to Treblinka

By Diana Wichtel

5 stars
The Last Days of Kira Mullan

By Nicci French

5 stars

The multilayers of gaslighting in this one! Firstly, the chief protagonist Nancy; gaslit by her controlling boyfriend and everyone else who has believed his narrative about her. Then Maud, the one person who was prepared to listen and investigate & the misogyny she (presently) tolerates as an effective investigator.
Don’t Let Him In

By Lisa Jewell

5 stars
The Vanishing Place

By Zoë Rankin

5 stars
Mana

By Tāme Iti

4 stars
Has anyone seen Charlotte Salter?

By Nicci French

5 stars
The Hunter

By Tana French

4 stars
Delirious

By Damien Wilkins

0 stars
Origin

By Dan Brown

4 stars
Easeful Death

By Cynthia Harrod-Eagles

3 stars

This brings me up to date with Slider and his station-mates. I am impressed that at 77 Ms H-E is still cranking them out, keeping up to date with technology and generational relevance. For anyone interested in historical fiction I would highly recommend her Moreland Dynasty series, though it’s not for the faint hearted at 36 books, with the most recent published in 2024 after an 11 year wait! I have not read many of her more recent series (War at home, Ashmore Castle) but I’m sure they are just as well researched and written as the others.
Bloody Minded

By Susie Ferguson

5 stars
Vianne

By Joanne Harris

4 stars
Picture you dead

By Peter James

4 stars
Dry Bones (aka Extraordinary People)

By Peter May

4 stars

Secret Santa gave me #6 in this series. It seemed intriguing, so I have started at #1. A good read.
Before I sleep

By Cynthia Harrod Eagles

3 stars

This is #24 in the Bill Slider series, which I have enjoyed over the years. Slider (& Atherton, & Joanna) are like old friends. I particularly adore his boss Porson’s malapropisms - I can imagine the author brainstorming them and chortling madly.
The Party Crasher

By Sophie Kinsella

4 stars

Read on the day we heard Sophie Kinsella has died. #sad
Last One Out: No one stays forever

By Jane Harper

4 stars
Wish you were dead

By Peter James

3 stars

Although this is numbered as #17.5, it would be better read after #16, otherwise continuity is interrupted.
The Searcher

By Tana French

4 stars
The ex-wife

By Tim Sullivan

3 stars

A short "in-between" read in the DS Cross Series. #4.5

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