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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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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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Michael Koryta’s How It Happened is a Winner!

How It Happened – Michael Koryta LJ Roberts a friend on Goodreads always opens her reviews with the first sentence of the book being reviewed. I thought of her, when I started Michael Koryta’s latest book. First Sentence: I’d never seen him before the day we killed him. The Story That statement comes from the confession of. Kimberly Crepeaux to the double murder of Jackie Pelletier and Ian Kelly in the Maine town of Port Hope. Kimberly gave her confession to FBI special agent Rob Barrett. Barrett had been assigned the case because of his interview skills. Additionally, he has…

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An Update on the Books Read in May 2018.

So my last post was written and posted on May 26th. Since then I have started to write several posts. Then I get distracted, do something else and they never get posted! Maybe I can catch up by writing two posts. The first will be about the books I read in May and the second about my May runs. I read five book in May. That brought the total number of books that I have read in 2018 to 26. My 2018 Reading Challenge goal is 65 books so I’m on pace to reach my goal. My May Reads The…

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Don’t Look For Me – Mason Cross (Carter Blake #4)

&nbsp; Carter Blake finds people who don’t want anyone to find them. For the last six years he  has  been one of those people. The reason why, revolves around Blake’s last days in the secret organization  known as Winterlong. During those last days an American Senator was assassinated and Blake became the prime suspect. In those final days the  Blake contacted his girlfriend Carol Langford and told her that for her safety she needed to go into hiding, too. When she finally decided on that course of action, she sent Blake a four-word note – “ Don’t Look for Me” and…

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Reading Update and Ward Larsen’s Cutting Edge

<h4></h4> So in my last post on Saturday (partially written Friday night) I outlined how I was going to tackle reading the eight books I have checked out of the library. At the time, I stated that I had already started two of the books: Cutting Edge from Ward Larsen and Dark Sky by Mike Brooks. About Ward Larsen’s Books Since then I have finished one of those Larsen’s Cutting Edge. Cutting Edge is a stand-alone book of which Larsen has written several. However, he may be best known for his two series books. One series features former Israeli assassin…

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Tackling The Six Books On My March – April “To Be Read” Pile

<h4><em>The Six Books on My March – April “To Be Read” Pile</em></h4>   So my last post was Part 1 of  2 concerning my library “to be read” pile. Post 2 was to deal with the order I was going to read the eight books that I now  have out of the library. At the time I was already reading two books from the pile, Cutting Edge by Ward Larsen and Dark Sky from mike Brooks. My plan was to read five or more books at a time and to list them according to the date I checked them out…

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Victim Without a Face – Stefan Ahnhem is a Winner!

<h4><em><span style=”text-decoration: underline;”>Victim Without a Face</span> – Stefan Ahnhem</em></h4> Victim Without a Face is the first book in the Fabian Risk series from Swedish writer Stefan Ahnhem. I stumbled across this series when I was in the library last week.I found it was, when I was looking through the new releases, and the book , The 9th Grave caught my eye. Once I saw the book was a Swedish mystery novel I figured it would be something I would like. However,  I saw  it was the second book in the series. Since there are only book two in the series, I…

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