I kind of got hooked on this series with the first one, Cold Granite.
It seemed like he was covering a lot of cases - of course, that is probably how I kind of got hooked on this series with the first one, Cold Granite.
It seemed like he was covering a lot of cases - of course, that is probably how it really is. No one has just one case. (I know I don't have just one casefile in my inventory - but at least I'm not a cop.)
But apparently Logan a/k/a Laz messed up and got one of his men killed. Thus, he got sent to the "screw-up" squad.
I felt like it kind of lagged somewhere in the middle (view spoiler)[ , perhaps it was when someone was forced to eat his own fingers. That image just got to me and I had to put it aside for a while(view spoiler)[. But I thought it was a pretty good ending.
It kept me up late last night.
I did have two questions. Actually, two words I didn't grasp which possibly some of Scottish friends might know (or other UK related countries) - "clarted" and "skoofed". Clarted seemed like it might mean covered - as in covered in blood. Could skoofed be like chugging - as in a can of beer? (hide spoiler)](hide spoiler)]...more
Here, she got a garbled e-mail from a brother (half-brother?) that he needs help. Unfortunately, this is one of thI like Sharon McCone and her troupe.
Here, she got a garbled e-mail from a brother (half-brother?) that he needs help. Unfortunately, this is one of those brothers who always needs help.
But they always seem to be using the latest technology and they track down where he e-mailed from. Of course, he isn't there anymore. But they are going all over San Francisco looking for this kid.
It is another story for how much do you do for the losers in your family? Is there where they can be written off? Or, do you have to just keep trying, no matter how much they push you away?
Muller shows us both viewpoints. Both what is going on with the young man and Sharon & Co.'s attempts to find him. ...more
However, it took far too long in the wrap-up where Inspector Queen was explaining This is the first of the Ellery Queen stories.
I enjoyed most of it.
However, it took far too long in the wrap-up where Inspector Queen was explaining the whole thing to his boss and the DA.
I suppose my view of the ending wasn't helped any because the day that I finished the book was one of those days where I just kept dozing off. Which includes the time that I was finishing the book.
Interesting story about the first woman detective on the New York Police Department and how difficult it was to become that. It was a time of corruptiInteresting story about the first woman detective on the New York Police Department and how difficult it was to become that. It was a time of corruption on the force. Her husband had been a "roundsman" - I never was sure what that was. After he died, she got hired as a matron - escorting female prisoners, etc. Until the day came when they needed a woman to go undercover. And she knew how to blend.
It is pretty short and apparently some reviewers took exception to the shortness of it. ...more
I enjoyed this story. This might really have been 3 1/2 stars.
She alternates life with Lindsay with tales from the past when the French and Spanish weI enjoyed this story. This might really have been 3 1/2 stars.
She alternates life with Lindsay with tales from the past when the French and Spanish were fighting over what is now the SE US and the natives were a mere incidental, frequently used as slaves. These tales had important information for what was happening with Lindsay. But I found them a little disconcerting.
They did have a purpose.
Interesting caving story and brings in the dispute between archaeology and native peoples - who have the impression that the archaeologists are little better than thieves....more
I loved this book. I found it while looking for a picture for a GR game.
I think these two met some years earlier while distance riding. And, now, theI loved this book. I found it while looking for a picture for a GR game.
I think these two met some years earlier while distance riding. And, now, they are riding from Oregon to Maine. Lots of adventure, interesting people are met. I just thought it was great. Of course, I did at one time want to do the same thing. I didn't do it, though. So now I have done it vicariously.
Only downfall here was the afterword and appendixes. I just didn't care about any of that. I just wanted the trip and that's it. So that cost them half a *.
Oh, how to last to the nest Deborah Crombie? I tried to stretch this one out.
This one is set against the backdrop of the world of rowers and rowing clOh, how to last to the nest Deborah Crombie? I tried to stretch this one out.
This one is set against the backdrop of the world of rowers and rowing clubs. Laura Lippman's Tess Monaghan series started out with her as a rower. And I've seen folks rowing on the Chicago River from my office window, whether they're from the local universities or rowing clubs.
But I'm also a big fan of this series featuring Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James and an ever-grouwing cast of characters. Here, Duncan and Gemma have just tied the knot and recently have taken in Charlotte, the daughter of the last book's victim....more
Not sure I'm as hot for this one as the previous ones. Too much focus on AA (Alocholics Anonymous) for me.
I liked the beginning and I liked the endinNot sure I'm as hot for this one as the previous ones. Too much focus on AA (Alocholics Anonymous) for me.
I liked the beginning and I liked the ending. It was just most of the middle that I didn't really care for.
As a former drinker (and smoker because this goes for people talking about smoking,too) I am all right with not drinking. What I am not all right with is people talking about drinking or not drinking. It always makes me want to go out and start drinking again (or smoking if it is a discussion about smoking). Also, I don't have very high thoughts about AA as I had a relative who tried it three different times and I guess I determined first that it must not be a very good program and, more belatedly, that my relative may not have had my will power.
So this book sat idle for quite a while. And, then, when I picked it up again, I discovered I was beyond the part where they were quite so heavy into AA. Although there was some continuance right through to the end.
I didn't get who the killer was but, apparently until she found AA, this was a victim waiting to get killed. So it helped her and then it helped her get killed....more
I generally enjoy the Bone Farm series. There were parts of this that were a little disturbing. For one thing, it is not a very good idea to read abouI generally enjoy the Bone Farm series. There were parts of this that were a little disturbing. For one thing, it is not a very good idea to read about autopsies on public transportation.
And, at a certain point, it gave me bad dreams one night so I had to put it down for a while. I think it was all that talk about substituting body parts. Because that doesn't happen to me very often. Where something I have read during the day so stayed with me that it affected my dreams at night.
And so I was reading along today when all of a sudden Brockton was driving east, past the airport "through Maryville and Townsend to Great Smoky Mountains National Park" and I was taken back to when I went to school in the area. The college, too, had an annual trip to Tremont - for a picnic or something, I think. And trips to Cades Cove. It had me looking for Abrams Creek, too. Nice adventure in the mountains, though.
Must be almost time for a trip down South. ...more
The second book that I read in the series but I think this is actually supposed to be the first one.
I think MontalI'd actually give this book a 3 1/2.
The second book that I read in the series but I think this is actually supposed to be the first one.
I think Montalbano is my 2nd favorite Italian copper so far - next to Leon's Brunetti, of course. Probably mainly because I've read more of Leon's books. And I only read one Dibdin so I'm not sure how much I like Zen. And I'm not far enough in The Dogs Of Rome to know how much I like Conor Fitzgerald's character.
I'm not sure if he didn't give us the information or I just missed it....more
Most of it very enjoyable, especially when they are trying to outwit and outsail the Greek and Chinese salmon poachersProbably actually a 3.75 for me.
Most of it very enjoyable, especially when they are trying to outwit and outsail the Greek and Chinese salmon poachers.
Tales from Jack London's youth when he was earning to enough money to finish high school.
He'd started out as a poacher but was persuaded to come over on to the fish patrol's side. Both were dangerous but it seemed a lot safer on the legal side.
Very fine sailing stories from a skillful sailor and a skillful storyteller. It was very hard for me to believe at the end that he was still short of his 16th birthday. ...more
Clare, among others, has come back from the war. She has some problems. But, then, who doesn't when they come back from a war. I think they used to caClare, among others, has come back from the war. She has some problems. But, then, who doesn't when they come back from a war. I think they used to call them the "readjustment blues".
She and a group from town start meeting with a VA counselor. One of their number turns up dead in her pool and none of them can believe it was suicide.
The just returned vet suicide rate has been extremely high after Afghanistan/Iraq. But I did hear this week that the ratio is going down because once it was pointed out publicly, the DOD had to do something about pinpointing and helping those who were in trouble.
There are compelling characters - Judge Joe Vincent, Grace Sundown, Nell. I guess you would call Libby and Vollmer compelling also but not in a very complimentary way.
This was the first I'd ever heard of "ether parties". Ether worked as a legal substitute for alcohol as opposed to what we would call bootleg liquor or moonshine. And apparently (mainly) women would get together to guzzle ether. I'd only heard of ether as used as anesthesia.
Joe and his daughter Nell go fishing one day and catch a man. He subsequently feels compelled to investigate.
This is all based on a true event and the authors are historical writers and combined under a pen name for this outing. Catch the website - . Very interesting Afterword written by the authors reminding us that this was historical fiction, but most of the characters were real.
Not sure why this book took me so long to read. It was always quite readable whenever I picked it up. Glad I finally finished it....more
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