Reading
right now:
“Bless the Dying” by Sandra
Bretting. Only Bretting’s second book, “Bless the Dying” is a mystery with a
medical twist. When a young policeman is poisoned, his former girlfriend who
works for the hospital doesn’t believe it was an accident and steps in to prove
that something else is going on and finds plenty of suspects. This looks like
it will be a pretty easy read, but has potential.
“Payoff” by Douglas Corleone. This
is the second in the Simon Fisk series which debuted with “Good as Gone” last
year. Our hero is former U.S. Marshal Simon Fisk who now works as a private
contractor to try to locate kidnapped children. After movie studio mogul Edgar
Trenton’s teenage daughter is kidnapped during a violent home invasion, Fisk is
hired to deal with the ransom exchange. It soon becomes obvious that the
kidnappers are not going to return the girl and Fisk must track them through
many dangerous South American cities to try to return her to her parents. This
is supposed to be a tremendous thriller with many surprises.
Other Mysterious Things:
August has seen
some amazing books come out with several more on the way. I’m sure we’ll still
be trying to catch up with these for a while. It’s hard to mention every book
that comes out each month, but some of these are important and you may not want
to miss them. “The
Bellingham Bloodbath” by Gregory Harris is the second in the Colin Pendragon
series. This is another terrific Victorian London mystery with Colin Pendragon
as the brilliant detective. Leading Swedish author Henning Mankel’s 11th
Kurt Wallander book came out in August (“An Event in Autumn”). “The Kills” by
Richard House is a collection of his four part series. If you haven’t read his
books before, here is an opportunity to find out why the collection was
nominated for The Man Booker Prize this past year. Louise Penny’s “The Long Way
Home” is the 10th book in the Chief Inspector Gamache series. August
saw Tami Hoag write a new stand-alone novel called “Cold Cold Heart.”
Here’s
a few more: Bitter Crossing by D. A. Keeley, Confessions by Kanae Minato, Devil
takes Half by Leta Sarafim, Low Profile by Nick Oldham, A Distance to Death by Holly
Menino, Clam Wake by Mary Daheim, I Can See in the Dark by Karin Fossum, Designated
Daughters by Margaret Maron, A Cry from the Dust by Carrie Stuart Parks, A
Little Night Murder by Nancy Martin, Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen, Strange
Shores by Arnaldur Indridason, Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller, Windigo
Island by William Kent Krueger, The Equalizer by Michael Sloan, Etta Mae’s
Worst Bad-Luck Day by Ann B. Ross, and Harbor Island by Carl Neggers.
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