It been a crazy 6 months and I expect it’s going to be even crazier the next 6 months. So to get us by we read, a lot!
Best of 2020 to date. Not necessarily in order.
From books I’ve read:
Susie Steiner, Remain Silent
Alex Marwood, The Poison Garden
Charlie 316, Frank Zafiro and Colin Conway
Never the Crime, Frank Zafiro and Colin Conway
City of Margins, William Boyle
Gravesend, William Boyle
Unspeakable Things, Jess Laurey
Broken, Don Winslow
The End of October, Lawrence Wright
The Paladin, David Ignatius
Pick any and you won’t go wrong.
Sunday, June 28, 2020
Friday, June 26, 2020
Never The Crime by Colin Conway and Frank Zafiro
Never the Crime by Colin Conway and Frank Zafiro
Rating: 5 City Hall Stars
Summary: The City of Spokan is in a chaotic state affairs with misbehaving city council members. A note the mayor receives sets a series of events that leads to many dirty deeds to solve the issue.
Comments: One of the best cop novels I’ve read. Thankfully it’s set up to look like another is coming, hopefully soon. A gem of a novel. Highly recommended.
https://smile.amazon.com/Never-Crime-Charlie-316-Book-ebook/dp/B08BJGVQ9X
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Bloodline by Jess Lourey
Rating: 5 Stars
Summary: A young women who is recently been mugged in the big city is moving to a small town in central Minnesota to have a baby with her now boyfriend and reunite with his parents. Using her journalistic skills she starts to question the towns inner culture.
Comments: My second Jess Lourey book this year, Unspeakable Things, and she is fast becoming an Minnesota star author. Lourey lays down in the atmospheric suspense and is hitting on all writing cylinders. Highly recommended.
https://www.amazon.com/Bloodline-Jess-Lourey-ebook/dp/B07ZQFT4B1
Saturday, June 20, 2020
Eight Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson
Rating: 5 perfect stars
Summary: A Boston bookseller is approached by a FBI agent and asked to aid her looking for a unknown murderer who she thinks is following a blog post he wrote years before listing the best murder books ever written.
Comments: Never doubt the brilliant storytelling from Peter Swanson. Fantastic! Be ready for a long list of books to read.
https://smile.amazon.com/Eight-Perfect-Murders-Peter-Swanson-ebook/dp/B07TD5CGZQ
Tuesday, June 16, 2020
The Lonely Witness by William Boyle
Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Amy leads a self contained existence as a church helper when she witnesses a brutal stabbing of a young man she knows from the neighborhood. She lets him die and then becomes obsessed with avoiding the killer who she thinks is stalking her.
Comments: My third Boyle novel and the man is blessed with storytelling only a few can do. A wonderful written crime novel. Highly recommended book and author. Boyle has me leaning back to my Catholic roots, albeit Irish not Italian.
https://smile.amazon.com/Lonely-Witness-Novel-William-Boyle-ebook/dp/B077J6X68Z
Thursday, June 11, 2020
Broken by Don Winslow
Broken by Don Winslow
Rating: 5 short story stars.
Summary: Several short crime stories with various levels of violence and intrigue by a master storyteller.
Comments: Winslow can write like not many other. Enjoy some great fast moving crime shorts! Excellence.
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Fair Warning by Michael Connelly
Rating: 5 DNA strands
Summary: Jack McEvoy is back working for online news site Fair Warning when his name comes up in a murdered women’s homicide investigation. Jack starts his own look into her death and leads us right into a active serial killer.
Comments: Connelly is not capable of telling a solid story. A true master of our time. A warning to those interested or have sent your DNA in for testing, yikes!
https://www.amazon.com/Fair-Warning-Jack-McEvoy-Book-ebook/dp/B07YSNB24G
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bauman
Rating: 4 fracking stars
Summary: Rural NE Pennsylvania a small town police officer with a deep history of the the area is tasked with finding a shooter of man found in a wooded property.
Comments: A great beginning of a series I am hearing great things. Looking forward to the next two in this series. Solid outing.
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