2018 Reads

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The Mourners – Bill Pronzini (Nameless Detective #30)

The Mourners – Bill Pronzini – (Nameless Detective # 30) So when you read your fifteenth book in a mystery series, one would think that you have read most of the books in that series. That unless the author of the series is grandmaster Bill Pronzini and the series is …

Where My November Reads Took Me -Part 2

After Dial D for Deadman, I reluctantly left the world of Dan Deadman and returned to Earth. I landed in Siglufjörðurhe a quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland. Here I met Ari Thor Arason In Ragnar Jonasson’s Nightblind. Nightblind – Rgnar Jonasson Siglufjörðurhe is an isolated village only accessible via …

Where My November Reads Took Me – Part 1

So as I finished Still Waters book number 61 for 2018, I thought of a way to recap my November reads. The setting for Still Waters is the Swedish island of Sandhamn. Which made me thinks of all the other places I visited in November via the books I read. So …

Catching Up- What’s Been Happening – Part One

An Attempt at Catching Up! Ok so the question before me today is – “How do I get back to blogging again after taking a month or more off?” I think the way I need to do it is to first try to catch up with what’s been happening on …

Loner by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Everything You’d Want in a Nordic Mystery!

NSo over the last several days,, after finishing Steve Hamilton’s Dead Man Running, I have finished two more books. The first was Loner by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. It is her debut novel and will be book #1 in the Oslo Mysteries series. About Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Hildur was born in …

Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight is Back!! Yeah!

Books From Two Favorite Authors – Steve Hamilton and William Kent Krueger Arrive! Back in July, I wrote a post to both remind myself and to let readers know that books from three of my favorite authors were being releasedt in August. The three authors,whose books were being released …

Michael Koryta’s How It Happened is a Winner!

How It Happened – Michael Koryta LJ Roberts a friend on Goodreads always opens her reviews with the first sentence of the book being reviewed. I thought of her, when I started Michael Koryta’s latest book. First Sentence: I’d never seen him before the day we killed him. The Story …

An Update on the Books Read in May 2018.

So my last post was written and posted on May 26th. Since then I have started to write several posts. Then I get distracted, do something else and they never get posted! Maybe I can catch up by writing two posts. The first will be about the books I read …

Don’t Look For Me – Mason Cross (Carter Blake #4)

Carter Blake finds people who don’t want anyone to find them. For the last six years he has been one of those people. The reason why, revolves around Blake’s last days in the secret organization known as Winterlong. During those last days an American Senator was assassinated and Blake became …

Reading Update and Ward Larsen’s Cutting Edge

So in my last post on Saturday (partially written Friday night) I outlined how I was going to tackle reading the eight books I have checked out of the library. At the time, I stated that I had already started two of the books: Cutting Edge from Ward Larsen and …

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