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The Disappearing – Lori Roy – Edgar Worthy!

The Disappearing - Lori Roy

The Disappearing – Lori Roy Lori Roy’s first novel Bent Road was published in 2011. In 2012 it won an Edgar Award for best first novel. Lori’s third book Let Me Die in His Footsteps was published in 2015. It won an Edgar for Best Novel in 2016. That win made Lori thee first woman to win An Edgar Allen Poe Award for both  Best First Novel and Best Novel. She’s only the third person to do it overall! Her latest release The Disappearing was released last year to rave reviews. After finishing the book the other day I’m ready…

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Eighteen Below – Stefan Ahnhem – A Cut Above!

Eighteen Below - Stefan Ahnhem

Well I didn’t do badly in writing in January,  it over the last week I have been slipping behind. Here’s a short post to try to catch up a little. Eighteen Below – Stefan Ahnhem (Fabian Risk #3) Yesterday, I finished my second read for February. It was Eighteen Below by Stefan Ahnhem. It is the third book in the Fabian Risk series. I read books one and two Victim without a Face and The Ninth Grave In 2018. The series has quickly become one of my favorites. In this install Fabian a member of the Helsingborg crime squad…….. A Pause…

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Six Great Books Start 2019 with a Bang!!

Here are the book I read in January of 2019. They certainly have gotten my reading year off to a great start!   1. She Rides Shotgun – Jordan Harper The she that is riding shotgun is young Polly McCluskey .And she’s riding shotgun with her father Nate McCluskey. Nate is just getting out of prison when he runs afoul of the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood. The leader put out a green light on his murder . That puts everyone he cares for including his ex-wife and daughter Polly in danger. Soon Nate and Polly are riding for their…

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The EK’s Life Safari’s 2019 Reading Challenge

<h5><strong><em>The EK’s Life Safari’s 2019 Reading Challenge</em></strong></h5> So since we are now into month two of 2019, I think it is time to final commit to my 2019 Reading Challenge. I have written earlier that my overall goal is to read 72 books in 2019. That’s seven books over my 2018 Challenge Goal. And  while I thought that goal of 65 books was unreachable I made it.So this ea I thought I’d  added some more! Though the years I have read mostly mysteries and thrillers. Occasionally I read history and political books. and maybe even a few self-help books. A…

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Van Jones’ Beyond the Messy Truth Kick Starts My 2019 Reading!

Van Jones’ Beyond the Messy Truth – How We Came Apart-How We Come Together Kicks Starts 2019 So last year I reached what I thought was an unreachable Reading Challenge goal of reading 65 books. At some point in the next week or two I will recap what I read and how those books fit into my various sub-Reading Challenges! Additionally, I will be creating and writing about my 2019 Reading Challenges. However, let’s get started by writing about what I have already read in 2019. As well as,  the books that I plan to read in January. Beyond the…

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Where My November Reads Took Me -Part 2

After <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>Dial D for Deadman,</strong></span> I reluctantly left the world of Dan Deadman and returned to Earth. I landed in Siglufjörðurhe a quiet fishing village in Northern Iceland. Here I met Ari Thor Arason In Ragnar Jonasson’s <span style=”text-decoration: underline;”><strong>Nightblind.</strong></span> Nightblind – Rgnar Jonasson Siglufjörðurhe is an isolated village only accessible via a small mountain tunnel. The small close-knit town is one where no one locks their doors. In Nightblind their world is rocked when a policeman is killed at a quiet house with a disturbing past. The murdered officer was Ari Thór’s partner. Thor would have been…

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Where My November Reads Took Me – Part 1

So as I finished <strong><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Still Waters</span> </strong>book number 61 for 2018, I  thought of a way to recap my November reads. The setting for <strong><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Still Waters</span> </strong>is the Swedish island of Sandhamn. Which made me thinks of all the other places I visited in November via the books I read. So here are the first three books I read……. Kate Wilhelm  – No Defense Kate Whilhelm’s No Defense (54) was the first book I read in November.The book is the fifth book in  Wilhelelm’s Barbara Holloway a lawyer working out of Eugene, Oregon. Most of the action…

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No Defense – Kate Wilhelm – Rescued from the Giveaway Pile!

<div></div> Let’s Start A New Series – No Defense – Kate Wilhelm (Barbara Holloway # 5) This afternoon I finished  No Defense by Kate Wilhelm. It is the 54th book I have read in 2018. And how I came to read it is a little different. A few weeks ago I came home with nine books from the used book sale at the library. Typically, when I do this my wife says “ that’s ok but now you need to get rid of nine books”. And I usually say “ yeah right!” Which of course means no way! This time though,…

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Catching Up- What’s Been Happening – Part One

<h5 style=”text-align: left;”><em><strong> An Attempt at Catching Up!</strong></em></h5> Ok so the question before me today is – “How do I get back to blogging again after taking a month or more off?” I think the way I need to do it is to first try to catch up with what’s been happening on my Life’s Safari over the last two months and then create some challenges for the rest of the year. Basically, there are maybe four aspects of my life that I blog about: the books that I read, the music that I listen to, the ways I attempt to…

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Loner by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Everything You’d Want in a Nordic Mystery!

NSo over the last several days,, after finishing Steve Hamilton’s<strong> Dead Man Running</strong>, I have finished two more books. The first was <b><u>Loner</u></b> by Hildur Sif Thorarensen. It is her debut novel and will be book #1 in the Oslo Mysteries series. About Hildur Sif Thorarensen. Hildur was born in Iceland but is currently living in Norway. Although, spending most of her adult years at the University, she’s been writing ever since she was a little girl and alongside Medical studies and a Master’s in Engineering, has also taken a year in Creative Writing. Loner was written in Iceland and…

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