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A Song of Shadows by John Connolly
Read June 2019 Recommended for fans of the series ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Easily the best Charlie Parker book since The Lovers (#8). It was, for me, a perfectly balanced Parker book: mystery, the supernatural, vengeance, visceral horror, … Continue reading
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Tagged five star, four star, mystery, series, supernatural mystery
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Promised Land by Robert B. Parker
Read April 2019 Recommended for fans of Spenser ★ ★ 1/2 The One Where Spenser is Schooled on the Dangers of the Souless Suburban Life by Susan. Also The One Where We Meet Hawk, Who Is a … Continue reading
God Save the Child by Robert B. Parker
Read April 2019 Recommended for fans of Spenser ★ ★ 1/2 Oh, Parker. I swear, there must have been a standard in the 70s (1974, to be exact) where 25% of a detective novel had to be … Continue reading
The Godwulf Manuscript by Robert B. Parker
Read again March 2019 Recommended for fans of Spenser, really old school PI ★ ★ ★ Ah, the first Spenser mystery, the one to start a series of almost forty books in forty years. Having started it somewhat … Continue reading
Robert B. Parker’s Lullaby by Ace Atkins
Read March 2019 Recommended for Spenser fans ★ ★ ★ Robert Parker wrote a Spenser P.I. book almost every year since 1973 until his death in 2010. He was extremely influential on the P.I. genre, but in … Continue reading
The Dry by Jane Harper. Why, yes, a bit
Read February 2019 Recommended for fans of Australia ★ ★ 1/2 I read it. Really, carol., you think you are going to get away with that shit? You’ll never remember this book. I can barely remember it now. … Continue reading
The Wolf In Winter by John Connolly
Read January 2019 Recommended for fans of Connolly ★ ★ ★ 1/2 For those of you who are wondering if you should read Connolly, I don’t really know. He’s not precisely one I would have recommended for … Continue reading
Broken Soul by Faith Hunter
Read December 2018 Recommended for fans of Jane Yellowrock ★ ★ ★ The Post in Which I Muse on the Series. I dropped this series a few years back. Heavy on vampire politics and with a lead … Continue reading
Posted in Book reviews, fantasy, Urban fantasy
Tagged female lead, series, shapeshifters, urban fantasy
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The Wrath of Angels by John Connolly
Read November 2018 Recommended for fans of horses, Claire Dewiitt ★ ★ ★ 1/2 There’s a couple of things that keep me coming back to Connolly. One, he hits my prose sweet spot. “For after Barney Shore … Continue reading
The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan
Read November 2018 Recommended for fans convoluted police departments ★ ★ ★ 1/2 For a first book, this was amazing. However, in the grand scheme of unsolved crime, police procedural and historical mysteries, this left something to … Continue reading
