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A Scourge of Vipers – Bruce DeSilva September’s First Read

So I’ve recently been recapping the six books that I read in August. So far I’ve only written about two of the books. Well, today I finished my first book  I have read in September and the 40th book I’ve read in 2020. Now, rather than not writing anything about books until I’m caught up writing about the books I read in August, I thought I’d write about book 40 while it’s still fresh in my memory! The 40th book I’ve finished this year is A Scourge of Vipers by Bruce DeSilva. It is book four in DSilva’s series featuring…

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Dead Famous and Revolver Road Start July Right!

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Revolver Road by Christi Daugherty and Carol O’ Connell’s Dead Famous are the 29th and 30th books I have read in 2020. I have previously read books written by both authors. Revolver Road is the third book in Daugherty’s Harper McClain series, which is to date is three books long. While Dead Famous is book 7 of the Kathleen Mallory series from O’ Connell. Revolver Road – Christi Daugherty  (Harper McClain #3) Revolver Road is the third book from Daugherty to feature newspaper reporter Harper McClain. And while it was a good read, I didn’t think it was as good…

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Torpedo Juice from Tim Dorsey is one Wild Rumpus!

Torpedo Juice (Serge A. Storms #7)  Tonight, I finished Torpedo Juice by Tim Dorsey it is the fifty-second (52) book I have read in 2019. And while I will finish well below the goal of 72 books read I set at the beginning of the year, I will have at the least read one book a week for 2019. Which I think is always a great accomplishment. Book 52 was Torpedo Juice book seven (7) in the Serge Storms series from Tim Dorsey. I reality wasn’t planning to read Torpedo Juice  at this time. In fact, I am in the…

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November Reads – Part One – Providence Rag

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After reading five books in October I only read three books in December. Reading fewer books over the last three months of the year has typical for most years since I began keeping track of what I read in the late 1980s. I think it’s a result of all four sports being played during those months. So I’m watching more sports instead of reading. Over the last few weeks my wife and I have been babysitting our grandchildren Zoe and Logan more often. Consequently, that cuts down on the free time I have to read. Anyway, the three books that…

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Desperate Creed Another Winner from Alex Kava

  Desperate Creed  ( Book #5 Ryder Creed) by Alex Kava So today in addition to running this morning, I also finished the 40th book I’ve read this year. The book was Desperate Creed by Alex Kava. Desperate Creed is the fifth book in Kava’s Ryder Creed series. I became a fan of Alex Kava’s books after reading her debut novel  A Perfect Evil in June of 2003. By September of 2003 I had read the first of Alex Kava’s book. All of those  books featured FBI agent Maggie O’Dell. Since then I have read all but one of the…

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A Beautiful Corpse – Christi Daugherty

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A Beautiful Corpse – Christi Daugherty (Book #2 – Harper McClain)   A Beautiful Corpse is the second book in Christi Daugherty’s series featuring newspaper crime reporter Harper McClain. I read the first book in the series The Echo Killing earlier this year. Both were really, really good. In both books the murders that form the core of the book have a connection to Harper. In The Echo Killing the murder eerily resembles her mother’s unsolved murder. While in A Beautiful Corpse the victim Naomi Scott a law student tends bar in an establishment that Harper frequents and where her…

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Eighteen Below – Stefan Ahnhem – A Cut Above!

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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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The Other Wife – Michael Robotham

3. The Other Wife – Michael Robotham Michael Robotham series featuring Joe O’Loughlin is one of my favorites.. In this installment of the series Joe gets a call from a distraught woman who tells him he must come to London. His father has been attacked and is fighting for his life. She claims to be his father’s “other wife” and has been that for the last twenty years! Talk about your life being turned upside down! Anyway, Joe is left to discover the truth about the attack and “the other wife”. Once again Joe and his friend former Police inspector…

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Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight is Back!! Yeah!

  Books From Two Favorite Authors – Steve Hamilton and William Kent Krueger Arrive!   Back in July, I wrote a post to both remind myself and to let readers know that books from three of my favorite authors were being releasedt in August. The three authors,whose books were being released on August 21st, were Karin Slaughter, William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton. Thanks to the post I remembered to go to my library’s website and request the books. At the end of last week, the books from William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton became available. My hold position for…

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An Update – August Reads After the 2018 Booktube-a-Thon

<h5><em><strong>August Reads After the 2018 Booktube-a-Thon</strong></em></h5> So August just blew by. I started the month in a reading frenzy, as I participated in the 2017 Booktube Tube-a-thon. A seven-day event with seven challenges presented concerning the seven books you are reading in the challenging. I completed the challenge having read five of the seven books in the seven-day period. I finished August reading four more books. That brought the number of books I’ve read in 2018 to 44 books. And kept me on pace to reach my goal of 65 books for the year. However, since finishing Burning Angel by…

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