After disappointing Harry Bosch tales (The Overlook, The Brass Dragon) Connelly has brought back the Harry that hooked me in the earlier tales.Harry is still back in homicide (no closer duty for him) and during a slow night he is asked to investigate a shooting in a “rougher” section of LA. Harry and his partner [...]
Alice Sebold has written a remarkable debut novel.The narrator, Susie Salmon, was raped and murdered in 1973 and now resides in her heaven; yet, her voice contains none of the bitterness one would expect.She is able to see into the lives of those who touched her in life and death. At times wistful – for [...]
What a terrific read! Water for Elephants has been lauded as a “great pick for summer”, but this book is so much more. It has a depth and a substance to it that you don’t usually find in your typical “beach read”. It’s obvious that the author did her research into the time period (post-Depression [...]
Just as Tolkein’s “Lord of the Rings” is held up as the trilogy to which all fantasy trilogies are inevitably compared, I’ve little doubt that Larsson’s Millenium series will play that benchmark role for mystery thrillers over the next few decades.
“The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest” is an incredibly worthy successor to the previous [...]
Michael Connelly is easily one of the best crime fiction authors working today and The Scarecrow is a solid read, although I have to admit that after a great start the ending is a bit of let down.It isn’t that the ending is bad (it isn’t) – it’s just that it follows a standard formula [...]
This is a brilliant book; lyrical, poignant and powerful. It is that rarest of books, the kind that you know will reside inside you for a very long time and will have changed you in some profound way that words can not address.It is a book that, when you reach the last page, will leave [...]