Andrea Camilleri’s fifth Montalbano novel Excursion to Tindari was published in 2000 (and published in English 2005). Montalbano is inves...

Louis L’Amour’s novel The Cherokee Trail was published in 1982. Mary Breydon, widow of retired major Marshall is taking on her late husba...

Andrea Camilleri’s fourth Montalbano novel The Voice of the Violin was published in 1997 (English version in 2003). It begins humorously ...

Ken Follett’s novel A Place Called Freedom was published in 1995 and is a fascinating dive into history.   The prologue or whatever (it’s...

Originally published in 1962 as The Hunter by Richard Stark, this edition is titled Point Blank and published in 1986 and features on the ...

Louis L’Amour’s novel The Ferguson Rifle was published in 1973 and my paperback copy is the fourth reprint (1982). And I’ve just got round ...

  Jack Higgins’s thriller Thunder Point was published in 1993 and is a credible page-turner. It concerns serious incriminating documents ...

James Runcie’s first collection of Grantchester short stories feature in this tome: Sydney Chambers and the Shadow of Death, published in 2...

Tom Clancy’s debut thriller The Hunt for Red October was published in 1984 and surprisingly I’ve just got round to reading it 41 years late...

Graham Greene’s novel The Heart of the Matter was published in 1948. It became an instant best-seller and has been reprinted many times and...

I suspect the title of Clive Egleton’s 1970 speculative novel A Piece of Resistan ce is a play on words – pièce de la résistance . It concer...

  Hermann Hesse’s first person narrative Demian was published in 1919 (although the Prologue was only added in 1960). Hesse died in 1962. ...