2025 52 Book Challenge

January 10, 2025

2025 52 Book Challenge

2. A character with red hair.

After she's gone / Camilla Grebe.

Enjoyed The ice beneath her, but After she's gone is in a different league. Gripping crine novel with some great twists and brilliant characterisation. I loved Jake!

10. Author's last name is also a first name - The city of God / Michael Russell.

War time thriller set in Rome. The latest in a long series featuring Irish detecive, Stefan Gilespie, I really enjoyed it and can't wait to read the rest. Historical detail is wonderful (and rather disturbing), but it's also an excellent thriller. Highly recommended.

24. Title is a spoiler - The spy who came in from the cold / John Le Carre.

The spoiler in this case really doesn't matter as it is the process of how the spy comes in from the cold is what is important. I've re-read this book several times, and it's one of those which really repays re-reading. It's a wonderful book. Not just a great spy novel, but a great novel.

30. In the public domain - A study in scarlet / Arthur Conan Doyle.

Holmes meets Watson in the first of the Sherlock Holmes canon. Great fun.

31. Audiobook has multiple narrators.

The ice beneath her / Camilla Grebe.

Decent Scandi Noir with a clever twist. With three unreliable narrators, it was perfect for this challenge.

32. Includes a diary entry.

A parson in wartime / the Boston diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins, 1943-1945.

Utterly charming diary produced for Mass Observation by a vicar based in rural Lincolnshire, in the midst of many major Second World War airfields. Sometimes funny and often surprising, I loved this.

33. A standalone novel.

Whistle in the dark / Emma Healey.

Both the story of a family in crisis, and a mystery. Whistle in the dark is well written with good characters, and a great sense of humour. Not normally my sort of read but thoroughly enjoyed it.