Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Based on the book by Tana French and adapted for tv by the Starz network an young girl is found in the woods dead and left on a alter rock. Two very likable Dublin detectives are tasked with unraveling this death in a very dark and mystic tv series which is well done.
Comments: A very well done TV series based on a great novel. Watch it.
https://smile.amazon.com/Dublin-Murders/dp/B07YYRCKYQ
Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Jake Brigance is back in Ford County Mississippi going about life as a country lawyer when he assigned by the judge in the area to defend a teenage boy who shot and killed a local cop and vicious drunk. Jake wants nothing to do with this case but through bankruptcy and small town politics he finds the will to defend him.
Comments: Easily the best of the series. There is a glimmer at the end for more then welcome Jake Brigance novels.
https://smile.amazon.com/Time-Mercy-Jake-Brigance-Book-ebook/dp/B087PKF9LZ
Rating: 5 best of the year novel.
Summary: A lonely retired Chicago cop retires to Ireland to find a new life. A young “boy” starts making unexpected visits to his fixer upper cottage he buys to restore into a new home. They form a solid relationship and the boy asks him to find his missing brother.
Comments: Easily the best book you will read this year. Simply said, it’s fantastic much in the way another gem, City of a Margins by William Boyle is equally. Crime novels wrapped tightly into characters that will grab your attention. Great Stuff
https://smile.amazon.com/Searcher-Novel-Tana-French-ebook/dp/B08681BNKV
Rating: 4 stars.
Summary: Mickey Haller the famous Lincoln Lawyer returns after he is accused of a heinous murder of a former client found in the trunk of his car after a hinky traffic stop. Mickey pulls all his close allies together and his famous courtroom tricks to get himself found “Innocence”
Comments: Plenty of courtroom drama, plenty of Mickey tricks and a loyal family and friends. Connelly proves he’s firing on all cylinders and is a master storyteller of this generation. Highly recommended.
Rating: 4.5 stars
Summary: Set in the early 1950’s and following the tragic death of there son there daughter in law remarried a man with a checkered past and questionable family. Shortly after the new marriage the husband is seen abusing the daughter and grandson in public. The new let the. Carry for there grandson.family flees to his family in very rural North Dakota when the grandparents decide to persuade them to care for the grandson.
Comments: A slow burn wonderfully developed film without the the needless volume. Developed from the novel named the same by Larry Watson. Costner and Laine are particularly great.
Rating: 5 stars.
Summary: A star Dublin police detective, with ghosts of his past, set in a Dublin suburb is paired with a rookie to solve the death of an entire family, except the wife who is injured but survived. The construction is shotty and only a few neighbors are still around. What’s living in the attic or breaking into these homes? Will the Scorcher solve the crimes and the mystery behind the holes in the walls. And what is that noise that drove the family insane?
Comments: Yes I started out of order, but French is a star storyteller. More to come. Irish crime fiction is alive and well.
https://smile.amazon.com/Broken-Harbor-Dublin-Murder-Squad-ebook/dp/B0072O00YI
Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Vicar Jack Brooks and her daughter Flo are sent away from there home church to avoid a unknown male that is being released from prison for killing her husband. They are sent to a rural church and come across a mystery of the “burning girls.”
Comments: Tudor has become a privileged read for me. I think she’s a gifted story teller. Don’t miss out, great novel.
https://smile.amazon.com/Burning-Girls-C-J-Tudor-ebook/dp/B087PMPD5S
Rating: 4 stars.
Summary The first Reacher novel now out of the hands of his creator Lee Child and written by his brother Andrew Child. Reacher wonders into a small Tennessee town where he abruptly stops a kidnapping in progress. This leads Reacher into the now familiar theme of saving the town/person from the latest enemy within.
Comments: Andrew does not miss a beat and Reacher is still in full tilt savior mode. He hits most of the nuanced Reaherisms and keeps the pages turning much like brother Lee did so well. I’d like to see some plot changes next and mix the series up from its now becoming familiar themes each book. I would love a prequel.
https://smile.amazon.com/Sentinel-Jack-Reacher-Novel-ebook/dp/B084FLW5KM
