Second book in the Logan McRae series, Logan is as usual in trouble. He’d lead a botched raid into a warehouse and a PC has been shot. But that is the least of his worries as he’s assigned to the F*&^& up squad as they find prostitutes who have been beaten then killed. Oh, and there appears to be a drug war going on in Aberdeen.
Gritty, gruesome at times, but with the gallows humor I’ve come to love in his characters, MacBride takes us on a wild ride through the gritty parts of his city.
I received this book as an Early Reviewer book from Library Thing. It is the latest of Anne Perry’s Christmas series, set in London during the 19th Century.
It chronicles a married woman’s attempts to discover the truth behind the murder of a street walker, murdered during a party at the home of a wealthy acquaintance.
I found it a tad bit heavy handed, but enjoyed it quite a bit. Nice to see a woman, despite the realities of her limitations in her society, stick to her beliefs and values despite pressure and win through.
First of the Harry Bosch series, a dark, gritty, noirish book about a Los Angeles detective looking into the death of a tunnel rat he knew in Viet Nam.
Harry is suspected by Internal Affairs of nefarious things, so not only does he have to deal with a search for a murderer, but also the IADs men who follow him around. And from there it goes to worst when suddenly the FBI is involved.
Definitely will read more of this series. I do like Connelly’s novels.
Third book of the Alex Benedict series. Alex is an antiquities dealer and a guy who goes out in search of them throughout the galaxy. His pilot and partner, Chase, does her best to keep him alive, although sometimes that is pretty hard to do, as Alex has a lot of enemies not to mention his penchant for dangerous places.
I really enjoy these books, told from Chase’s POV. She takes Alex with a healthy dash of salt and is by far the more sensible and practical of the two.
In this book, Alex is off on a quest to find his time’s equivalent of Atlantis, a very long lost colony.
Second book of The Expanse series.
Terrific space opera. Political implications, a shooting war about to start between Mars and Earth, a lost little girl, and the protovirus loose. Again. And Jim Holden and his rogue ship and crew are once again in the middle of things.
Third book of the Raj Quartet. Further detailing the events of the first and second books, and moving forward to the end of WWII. The British people are beginning to see the writing on the wall, and know that their world is coming to an end.
Such a wonderful, if very sad book. Scott’s way of telling the story is so very different from most novels, and yet so very intriguing. Seeing the events from different viewpoints, each one colored by assumptions and prejudices.
A disappointment even given the different times. I wasn’t impressed by the constant repititious descriptions of Sam Spade, and every character in the thing was grubby and miserable. And one more repetition of ‘darling’ and I’d have screamed. I enjoyed the movie much more.
A science fiction book that definitely creates a sense of ‘otherness’ and a confusing society we won’t at all feel comfortable in.
Gender issues confuse us, and the fact that most of the characters are AIs is also a difficulty.
The plot hinges on the idea that if an AI has multiple bodies (corpse bodies – the bodies of captured soldiers used to house the AIs) – the different aspects of the AIs might have different viewpoints, morals and motivations. Very interesting but a book that takes thought and concentration.
I suspect I’ll get a lot more out of it if/when I read it again.
