In her third thriller (“The Guest List” and “The Hunting Party”) Lucy Foley keeps you guessing with multiple first person narrators and short chapters designed to leave you hanging.
The star of this twisted tale is Jess, arriving in Paris from London to visit her half-brother, Ben. …
Turns out Ben is missing and Jess can’t get any answers from the denizens of number 12, rue des Amants. …
Guardian – Everyone’s a suspect in ‘The Paris Apartment’
Quite entertaining.
My favourite Robbie Robertson song.
Rest in Peace.
Levon Helm on lead vocals. This was the last time he sang it.
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A small city, the old town of Bamberg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1993.
I had quite a bit of time there as the police made ALL cyclists take their bikes off my train leaving town. Apparently some had argued with the conductor — so we ALL had to leave. And wait a couple of hours for the next train. 😀
Bamberg is quaint. It was crowded on a summer day.
For sure my highlight was the Old town hall (1386), built in the middle of the Regnitz river, accessible by two bridges.
Beautiful.
It’s sometimes called Klein-Venedig (“Little Venice”) … and there are some pretty canals.
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James Patterson does love to co-author.
No doubt David Ellis gets a bump in his writing career.
Detective Jenna Murphy comes to the Hamptons to solve a murder — but what she finds is more deadly than she could ever imagine.
Trying to escape her troubled past and rehabilitate a career on the rocks, former New York City cop Jenna Murphy hardly expects her lush and wealthy surroundings to be a hotbed of grisly depravity.
But when a Hollywood power broker and his mistress are found dead in the abandoned Murder House, the gruesome crime scene rivals anything Jenna experienced in Manhattan.
And what at first seems like an open and shut case turns out to have as many shocking secrets as the Murder House itself, as Jenna quickly realizes that the mansion’s history is much darker than even the town’s most salacious gossips could have imagined. …
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The rain. And the rainbows.
Sean Kitching, one of my favourite YouTube editing experts, is giving up his house. Going full-time on the road in a camper van.
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Much better than the average Baldacci.
The April 2023 one kept me guessing.
Mickey Gibson, single mother and former detective, leads a hectic life similar to that of many moms: juggling the demands of her two small children with the tasks of her job working remotely for ProEye, a global investigation company that hunts down wealthy tax and credit cheats.When Mickey gets a call from a colleague named Arlene Robinson, she thinks nothing of Arlene’s unusual request for her to go inventory the vacant home of an arms dealer who cheated ProEye’s clients and fled. That is, until she arrives at the mansion to discover a dead body in a secret room—and that nothing is as it seems. …
In the blink of an eye, Gibson has become a prime suspect in a murder investigation—and now her job is also on the line until she proves that she was set up.
Before long, Gibson is locked in a battle of wits with a brilliant woman with no name, a hidden past, and unknown motives—whose end game is as mysterious as it is deadly.
This may have been the first Agatha Christie I ever read.
As a Reader’s Digest Condensed Book back when I was a kid.
Quite groundbreaking as one of the first serial killer stories.
10 people on an island. No way to leave.
One by one they are murdered in this spooky house.
Like most upper middle class Brits of her age, Agatha was somewhat racist. And even more antisemitic.
She got better over the decades, eventually casting homosexuals in positive roles. Surprisingly, the famously conservative old lady even voted to join the EU.
It was first published in the United Kingdom in 1939, as Ten Little Niggers,[3] after an 1869 minstrel song which serves as a major plot element. The US edition was released i 1940 with the title And Then There Were None, taken from the last five words of the song.
The book is the world’s best-selling mystery, and with over 100 million copies sold is one of the best-selling books of all time.
While reading the book, I simultaneously watched the 2015 mystery thriller television serial that was first broadcast on BBC One ➙ And Then There Were None.
Quite good.
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I couldn’t get through season 1.
But somehow managed to finish season 2.
Fantasy is simply not one of my favourite genres.
Good Omens is a British fantasy comedy series created by Neil Gaiman based on his and Terry Pratchett‘s 1990 novel of the same name. …
Like the novel, Good Omens features various Christian themes and figures and follows various characters all trying to either encourage or prevent an imminent Armageddon, seen through the eyes of the angel Aziraphale and the demon Crowley. …
Some of the irreverent dialogue is entertaining. Much is too absurd for me.
In particular, the ending of season 2 does not work.
Count me out.
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Police (2013) is the 10th novel in Nesbø’s Harry Hole series.
OK — not great. My review.
The only thing worse than a serial killer is a serial killer targeting cops.
Arguably the most densely packed and ambitiously plotted novel in a series that has been getting darker with each volume, the tenth novel featuring Harry Hole is a companion sequel to its predecessor (Phantom, 2012).
That book had left the former Oslo detective no longer a member of the police force and perhaps no longer alive …
The police who investigated the original crimes and failed to solve them are lured back to the murder scenes, on the anniversaries of the murders, and are then themselves killed in an equally gruesome manner.
Is the killer the same as the first, covering his tracks? Or is he “an apostle of righteousness,” an agent of justice, insisting that those who failed to solve the crimes must pay for them? …
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Rick McCharles 