Yep, the Spellmans are back. This time, wild child Izzy Spellman is making an attempt to grow up a big and take over the family business. She’s got a few cases floating at once: trying to dig up dirt on Rich Harkey, her family’s arch nemesis; uncovering the truth behind the disappearance of a valet by sneaking her actor friend into the role; plus, her mother is blackmailing her to get her to date lawyers (as mothers do). Honestly, I’ve read six Spellman books in […]
A Who-Done-It Modeled on Greek Tragedy
I was expecting another courtroom drama, which Turow is famous for, but instead got a complicated who-dun-it which meshed power struggles and politics with family feuds and Greek mythol0gy. As Turow himself admits in his concluding notes, inspiration for the story came from the Gemini myth of Castor and Pollux, twins who shared in each other’s fates and spent half their time in Hades and half on Mount Olympus with the Greek Gods. Knowing that myth before reading the book gives added dimensions to Turow’s […]
The Uninterested Reader
Every once in a great while you encounter a book that has all the right ingredients to appeal to your taste, but that nevertheless leaves you somewhat unsatisfied. The Uninvited Guests by Sadie Jones was like that for me. It has so many things I like: An English manor house, a disastrous dinner, early 20th century English vernacular, an eccentric child, unresolved sexual tension, and a mystery. And yet I did not love it. It’s an easy book that most readers will probably breeze trough […]
Deja Dead All Over Again
It’s summer and it’s hot. I went on a Netflix binge and got through all available episodes of “Bones”. It’s not a bad show, but I never watched the show until this binge because it’s so different from the books. The show doesn’t do the books justice. So once I ran out of episodes I decided to go back to the books. The first time I read them it was out of order, based on what the library had, and what I could borrow from […]
Some murders, some mystery…the usual
I’ve never read much Agatha Christie; I’m not sure how I’ve missed her. I can definitely see how she helped shape the genre. The story was good, and I love her writing, but I’m not sure I’m much of a Poirot fan. In this book, retired inspector Hercule Poirot is consulting with the police to stave off boredom. His friend Captain Hastings tells us the story, and most everything is from his point of view. Poirot shows him a letter from someone calling him/herself ABC, […]
Jo Nesbo gives us a new sub-zero thriller
The Redeemer is a whopping good police procedural, with the inimitable Harry Hole up against all the usual demons—first and foremost, his own depressive alcoholism, but also the deaths of those close to him, a supervisor who just doesn’t get him, the love of his life who can’t be around him, and the darkest, coldest, most oppressive setting author Jo Nesbo can bring to life. I got the chills reading this and had to wrap a blanket around me, even in the middle of the […]
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