I don’t recall reading any other books by Anne Perry, who died April 2023, aged 84. Heart attack.
Twenty-one Days (2018) is the first book in the Daniel Pitt series.
Not bad. Historical fiction.
Too slow for me. Mostly talk. Little action.
But the mystery of the murder kept me interested.
Almost literally yanked out of the courtroom where he’s defending dicey private inquiry agent Roman Blackwell on a charge of homicide, Daniel Pitt, who’s been a junior barrister for only a year, is tapped to assist his distinguished colleague Toby Kitteridge in the much higher-profile defense of Russell Graves, a tell-all biographer charged with bashing his wife, Ebony, to death in her bedroom and setting her head on fire.
The case is already winding down when Daniel steps into the Old Bailey, and his emotional last-minute questions aren’t enough to save Graves from a guilty verdict.
But Marcus fford Croft, Daniel’s head of chambers, doesn’t intend to let that verdict stand. He demands that Kitteridge and Daniel get it reversed …
In 1994, it became public knowledge that Perry had been convicted for murder as a teenager while living in Christchurch, New Zealand. In 1954, at the age of fifteen, she and her 16-year-old friend Pauline Parker murdered Parker’s mother, Honorah Rieper. After serving a five-year sentence for the murder, she changed her name and returned to the United Kingdom.
MrBeast is #1 in 2024. A College dropout whom nobody would ever have got to know, except for YouTube. His childhood friends are still collaborators.
Casey Neistat popularized vlogging. A high school dropout who headed to NYC with no money. And went on to inspire tens of thousands to start their own YouTube channel. His first upload was February 17, 2010.
I first learned about him from this edit for Nike. 😀
“Nike asked me to make a movie about what it means to #makeitcount. Instead of making their movie, I spent the entire budget traveling around the world with my friend Max. We’d keep going until the money ran out. It took 10 days.”
Duma Key (2008) by Stephen King is another scary story from the world’s best story teller.
The first 2/3rds of this one are entertaining. … (I should have quit after his art show.)
I laughed out loud. Often.
Wireman is one of the better characters in fiction, I can recall.
At my age, I appreciate King’s many pop culture references.
But it’s a horror — not my favourite genre.
As usual, there is a fair bit of the paranormal, as well.
And the book is too long. Like most King books.
Edgar Freemantle, a wealthy Minnesotan building contractor, barely survives a severe worksite accident wherein his truck is crushed by a crane. Edgar loses his right arm while suffering severe head injuries impairing his speech, vision, and memory. During his long recovery, he experiences suicidal thoughts and violent, abusive mood swings, spurring his wife to file for divorce.
On the advice of his psychologist, Dr. Kamen, Edgar relocates southward and rents a beach house on the island of Duma Key, off the Florida coast. …
King wrote this shortly after he was struck by a van and while he questioned his mortality.
A good call ➙ Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill / Laurel Gates. Ricci played played Wednesday Addams in the film The Addams Family and its sequel Addams Family Values (1993).
Sequels, especially ones that follow a great series-starter, are always hit-or-miss. They often have a lot to live up to and I must say that Death Comes to Marlow was brilliant and just as fun to read as the first book in the series, The Marlow Murder Club …
Judith, Suzie, and Becks face a locked-room conundrum complete with lots of family drama on the side.
The mystery had lots of fun twists and turns, red herrings and even a second body later on in the story. …
Author Maurice Leblanc featured Lupin in 17 novels and 39 novellas.
The story follows professional thief Assane Diop, the only son of an immigrant from Senegal who had come to France to seek a better life for himself and his child.
Assane’s father is framed for the theft of an expensive diamond necklace by his employer, the wealthy and powerful Hubert Pellegrini, and dies in his prison cell, leaving the fourteen-year-old Assane to fend for himself on the streets of Paris.
Twenty-five years later, inspired by a book about gentleman thiefArsène Lupin his father had given him on his birthday, Assane sets out to get revenge on the Pellegrini family …
The hilariously bad voice over and subtitles in English didn’t bother me (for a change). In fact, it almost adds to the silliness of some of the plot lines. 😀
Though trying to quit the bleak Nordic Noir murder mystery genre, I make an exception for Kepler.
I DO want to find out what happens to Joona Linna and Saga Bauer.
Especially Joona. He is most admirable.
Spider (2022) is 9th in the series.
Saga Bauer received a postcard with a threating message about a gun with nine white bullets – one of them intended for Joona Linna – and Saga was the only one that could save him. …
A bag with an almost completely dissolved body is found strapped to a tree in Kapellskär. A milky-white cartridge is found at the murder scene. Through complex riddles, a bestial perpetrator appears to give the police the opportunity to stop the series of murders.
Joona Linna and Saga Bauer fight side by side to solve the puzzle and save the chosen victims before it’s too late. …
Lars Kepler is the pseudonym of husband and wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril (born 1966) and Alexander Ahndoril. Best-selling author – Swedish or international – in Sweden, across all categories, genres and formats.
A recently retired English professor discovers a real knack for investigation and cannot help but interfere with the cases assigned to her police detective son.
Rick McCharles 