The 2021 Lincoln Rhyme book is excellent, as are they all. It’s the most recent, as I post.
Another roller coaster of a plot with multiple surprise endings.
A woman awakes in the morning to find that someone has picked her apartment’s apparently impregnable door lock and, terrifyingly, rearranged personal items, even sitting beside her while she slept.
The intrusion, the police learn, is a message to the entire city of carnage and death to come.
Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs are brought in to investigate and soon learn that the brilliant, sociopathic intruder, who calls himself “The Locksmith,” can break through any lock or security system ever devised. …
UCOS primarily functioned with a senior police detective overseeing the work of three retired police officers who would handle each case, and who could bring in police support when needed. …
Yep. Sam is taken back to time to the days of Shakespeare’s “Scottish Play” and General Macbeth’s machinations to become King of Scotland.
With scheming witches on one side and an old friend in peril on the other, Sam finds himself in the unenviable position of having to help Macbeth succeed. That is, if he ever wants to return home.
Worst of all, he hasn’t the first clue of how to manage a nightclub.
I enjoyed this one the most of the three, so far. The books are funny.
The Other Two … follows two floundering millennial siblings who must grapple with their 13-year-old brother’s overnight fame.
A gay aspiring actor, Cary (Drew Tarver), and his sister Brooke (Heléne Yorke), a former professional dancer …
Chase Dubek (a.k.a. ChaseDreams), a teen pop sensation who’s declared as the “Next Big White Kid” (Bieber) in music after his homemade music video, “I Wanna Marry U at Recess,” went viral on YouTube.
Grainger self-publishes. Kindle and Audio only, as I post.
I highly recommend the DC Smith Investigation Series;
Book 1: An Accidental Death: A DC Smith Investigation
Book 2: But for the Grace: A DC Smith Investigation
Book 3: Luck and Judgement: A DC Smith Investigation
Book 4: Persons of Interest: A DC Smith Investigation
Book 5: In This Bright Future: A DC Smith Investigation
Book 6: The Rags of Time: A DC Smith Investigation
Those are the first six of 10 up to 2023. Grainger recommends you read them in series as the characters evolve. Smith keeps trying to retire.
DC Smith is one of my favourite characters in fiction. Super competent. Very funny. Dry British humour.
These are police procedurals with no profanity, sex, nor much violence.
In the peace and tranquillity of the woods at Pinehills on a Saturday afternoon, a mobile phone begins to ring. The phone belongs to DC Smith and it isn’t unusual that the call is from Kings Lake Central police station; what is unusual is the fact that he seems to be the subject of an investigation rather than taking part in one.
What can the links be between a prisoner’s violent death in another county, the disappearance of two teenagers and the highest profile case in Kings Lake for many years?
As Smith and his team begin to untangle the threads, one thing becomes clear – they are dealing with some of the most dangerous people that they have yet encountered.
Statues are stupid. I’d vote against paying for the installation of any.
Decorative urban art pieces are … better.
My friends have always mocked Calgary for being the WORST city of this size for urban art.
Of hundreds of pieces around the city of 1.35 million I can only recall a few I like.
In 2012 this sculpture was installed to celebrate First Nations of Treaty 7 and the Stampede.
Designed to look like a half teepee, the semi-circlular sculpture depicts historic iconography that represents the Kainai, Piikani, Siksika, Nakoda and Tsuut’ina.
I’ve tried a number of Nesbø books now — but just can’t get into them.
Norwegian police officer Harry Hole — (an alcoholic) — is sent to Sydney, Australia to serve as an attaché for the Australian police’s investigation into the murder of a young female Norwegian girl …
Hole is assisted by Aboriginal colleague Andrew Kensington; together they find out that they are dealing with a serial killer who strangles blonde women. …
As I was going to be out of town on Alberta election day — May 29, 2023 — I voted by mail. Early.
And It was easy to vote by mail. I could write in the candidate running in my riding, or the Party.
I was voting against the unelected premier Danielle Smith as she’s untrustworthy and a rightwing whacko. The NDP is the only alternative that MIGHT form the next government so I voted for Rachel Notley.
IF unelected whacko Danielle Smith manages to lose in historically conservative Alberta, she’ll certainly claim a BIG LIE as she’s a fan of Trump and DeSantis.
Critics love this TV series for its originality and courage.
Frontal nudity.
But I find it embarrassingly weird for weird sake at times.
In season 3 the most compelling character is Scott Glenn as Kevin Garvey, Justin Theroux‘s (Kevin Garvey) father. He’s great. Very believable.
Inexplicably, the show moves from Texas to Australia a week before the seventh anniversary of the Sudden Departure when 2% of the world’s population had disappeared without explanation.
Season 3 does have some super memorable scenes. I’ll never forget the hotel room book burning in episode four. Film students need study how that was done.
This is a show that’s impossible to end — wrapping up all the loose ends. Yet the finale was one of the best scenes of all. Well done.
Overall, however — I’d say season 3 is weakest. IF you wanted to watch this show at all, season 1 would be best.
Rick McCharles 