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The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith aka J.R.Rowling

Now reading Red Winter by Dan Smith,an excellent thriller set in war-torn 1920s Russia. I read The Child Thief by Smith last year and it was easily the best thriller that I read in '12. Added Timelike Infinity by Stephen Baxter (sci-fi) to my Kindle.

A Swarming Of Bees by Theresa Tomlinson on Kindle,historical mystery set in the 7th century in Whitby where Hild is Abbess. Tried to order Secrets Of The Sea House by Elisabeth Gifford from local library but the librarian couldn't even find it on Amazon! I checked online later and there it is...

Drifting South by Charles Davis This Magnificent Desolation by Thomas O'Malley And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini The Winter King by Bernard Cornwell

The Greatcoat by Helen Dunmore Starseeker by Tim Bowler

Hi Summerflyte-Little Wolves was very good,it's a kind of mystery fused with folklore. I wouldn't say it was a thriller,and def not hilarious! :) Daylight Saving by Edward Hogan. Read his previous 2 novels which were great,and quite out of the ordinary,so expecting similiar with this.

The Invisible Ones by Stef Penney 4/5 Good gypsy mystery.

Little Wolves by Thomas Maltman

Death Of An Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan :stars3: A ghost awakens at his own funeral and from here it's a mystery slash exploration of intricate family/friendship relationships. I almost gave it four stars,but thought it got a bit too confused with what kind of novel it wanted to be. That...

White Heat by M.J.McGrath :stars3: Fairly entertaining crime/thriller set in the Arctic circle.

The Rat-Pit by Patrick MacGill The Devil's Acr by Matthew Plampin Death Of Kings by Bernard Cornwell

Dominion by C.J Sansom :stars3: A break from Sansom's excellent historical crime series,Dominion is an alternate history novel starting with Winston Churchill not becoming Prime Minister and Britain waving the white flag to Hitler after a brief 39-40 war. Readable as always but I was quite...

In Durham today: The Dark Horse by Marcus Sedgwick Death Of An Ordinary Man by Glen Duncan Dead Of Winter by Rennie Airth White Heat by M.J.McGrath

the beginner's goodbye by anne tyler (library) season of the harvest by michael r hicks (kindle)

Strange Attractors by Jeffrey A Carver :stars3:

Wilderness by Lance Weller :stars4:

Con Mi Guaguanco-Ray Armando

My top 5 books of 2012 are: 1 The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey 2 A Long,Long Way by Sebastian Barry 3 Toby's Room by Pat Barker 4 Half Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan 5 The Infinite Tides by Christian Kiefer also special mention: The Hunger Trace by Edward Hogan The Child Thief by Dan...

Dark Eden by Chris Beckett The Hunter From The Woods by Robert McCammon Scarab by Catherine Fisher

Hurricane Moon by Alexis Glynn Latner :stars3: O.K sci-fi with decent story,but a bit too clever for it's own good.