Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

“Never, never will you use the brains the good God has given you.”

Poirot Investigates (Hercule Poirot, #3) by Agatha Christie

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Have been reading this in bits and pieces since November, but got a hankering to finish it this morning. I also realized it fits in with my only reading books by or about badass ladies in January, because Agatha Christie was certainly a badass lady. I don’t do short stories very often, for a lot of reason, but mainly because the idea of them exhausts me. You get invested for so little payoff, over and over again. But I think I might have to rethink […]

“My father told me once that the most important thing every man should know is what he would die for.”

Faithful Place (Dublin Murder Squad, #3) by Tana French

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This was even better the second time. I think this might actually be the most balanced of all the books, in terms of tragedy vs. hope. In the Woods is just tragic all around, as is Broken Harbour, and The Likeness is still too full of Cassie’s grief over her partnership/friendship with Rob, and with what happens in the actual book, for it to feel much like a win when she gets proposed to by Sam. But here, devastating things happen to Frank (happened to Frank 22 years before), […]

The second book in this metafictional British detective series.

The Sentence is Death (Hawthorne, #2) by Anthony Horowitz

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Overall thoughts: *I read this really fast, and it was a fun read, what with “Anthony” being so frustrated at being behind Hawthorne in figuring out what was going on, and in his capacity as a real-life writer where we get fun glimpses into the behind the scenes life of someone who makes art and rubs shoulders with famous people but isn’t really all that famous himself. *I am still puzzled by Horowitz’s fictional but supposedly real detective. What is his deal? By that I […]

A Downton Abbey Murder Mystery

Cardington Crescent by Anne Perry

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Cardington Crescent is the 8th novel in Anne Perry’s Thomas and Charlotte Pitt series. Perry does a fabulous job of capturing the details of a Victorian detective mystery- the class restrictions, social mores, interior design, etc. of the 1880s.  Cardington Crescent follows the Pitts as they investigate two murders- an unknown housemaid whose body appears chopped up in pieces in Bloomsbury, and Charlotte’s brother-in-law, Lord George Ashworth, at his uncle’s townhouse in Cardington Close.  The mystery spends most of its time in the stuffy drawing […]

This book felt like forever

Bones are Forever by Kathy Reichs

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Oh Kathy Reichs, I so used to love your books and your no nonsense forensic pathologist, Temperance Brennan. Set in the winter in Montreal, Edmonton and Yellowknife, I had high hopes for this pairing nicely with my winter trip to Montreal.  I was disappointed. Bones are Forever begins in Montreal with Brennan being asked to assist when infant bones are discovered in slum housing.  Multiple sets of bones are eventually discovered and Tempe and her off-again love interest, Quebec police detective Andrew Ryan, are off […]

Murder becomes him

The Sentence is Death by Anthony Horowitz

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The second in the Horowitz and Hawthorne detective series, this installment sees Horowitz’s namesake writer following ex-police private detective, Hawthorne, as he investigates the murder of a divorce lawyer in a tony London neighbourhood.  As you might suspect for a lawyer, in particular a divorce lawyer, the victim had many enemies and the detecting team have quite a task in front of them. This was a quick and fun romp through London, with a side trip to the Yorkshire dales.  Horowitz the author has a […]



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