Summer holiday reading

I took a couple of books on holiday to Greece with me. Christopher Brookmyre's latest in paperback, which is a brilliantly funny book set near Glasgow about how people's childhoods and schooldays influence their later lives. Live Bait is P. J. Tracy's sequel to the terrific Want to play which the group read recently. The sequel wasn't as compulsive, but it was still a good read. The plot had similarities to Henning Mankell's The return of the dancing master, which I have just finished. I also took Relentless by Simon Kernick which has been heavily promoted. It was badly written and not particularly gripping.