Archive for the ‘Detective Novel’ Category
Book: Taken by Robert Crais
The book I read this week was, etc. I liked: – The chopped up timeline and different pov characters. – That Elvis and Pike are always one second away from declaring their eternal love for one another. – Heroics, guns, just guys bein’ macho. I didn’t like: – The vast number of bad guys. There [...]
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#49 – The Turkish Gambit
The Turkish Gambit Boris Akunin Detective Read from 11/16/06 – 11/20/06 My grade: 7 The third volume in the Erast Fandorin series is narrated by Varvara, a young Russian woman who encounters Fandorin during the Russian war with Turkey while Fandorin is trying to smoke out a Turkish spy. It’s a well-constructed mystery, and I [...]
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#19 – L.A. Requiem
L.A. Requiem Robert Crais Detective Read from 5/11 – 5/15 My grade: 10 Pike’s second (second!) escape from LAPD custody. My love is boundless.
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#18 – Free Fall
Free Fall Robert Crais Detective Read from 5/9-5/11 My grade: 10 Heart.
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#7 – The Forgotten Man
The Forgotten ManBy Robert CraisDetective Read from 2/16/06 – 2/18/06My grade: 10 This one is probably only interesting to me. I am in love with this series of detective novels from Robert Crais. I’ve been reading them since high school, and I could barely stand waiting for this new one to come out [...]
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#31 – Murder on the Leviathan
Murder on the Leviathan Boris Akunin (trans. Andrew Bromfield) Detective Read from 9/26/05 – 9/28/05 My Grade: 8 Another of Erast Fandorin’s 1870s detective adventures. This was not what I expected at all. The shifting perspectives were very clever, though I often wished for more time with Fandorin. This turned out to be an old-fashioned [...]
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#24 – The Winter Queen
The Winter Queen Boris Akunin Mystery Read from 8/5/05 – 8/9/05 My Grade: 9 This is the first in a series of Russian detective novels set in the 1870s. Quite funny, perfect main character, so I’m looking forward to more translations. The mystery in this one is the suicide of a student that turns into [...]
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#22 – The Web
The Web Jonathan Kellerman Mystery Read from 7/18/05 – 7/21/05 My Grade: 8 This was by far the creepiest one in this series. Stuck on a desert island with a potentially mad scientist, cryptic notes, past sins, cannabalism, corporate corruption, restless natives, and the goddamn CAVE – another book that required a Futurama chaser. I [...]
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#12 – The Maltese Falcon
The Maltese Falcon By Dashiell Hammett Detective Novel (Noir) Read from 5/16/05 – 5/30/05 My Grade: 7 Hard-boiled ’40s-style detective double-crossing fun. I made the mistake of reading this pretty slowly for the first two-thirds. But I finally got into it for the last 50 pages in one sitting. It’s a great book if you [...]
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#10 – N Is for Noose
N Is for Noose By Sue Grafton Detective Novel Read from 5/2/05 – 5/9/05 My Grade: 7 I’ve also read A – M in this series. This was a good one. Kinsey is out of her comfort zone, investigating what troubled a deceased sheriff’s investigator in Nota Lake. Turns out, the dead guy’s stepson killed [...]
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#4 – Sunset Express
Sunset Express (an Elvis Cole novel) By Robert Crais Detective Novel Read from 2/9/05 – 2/11/05 My Grade: 10 I’ve also read Crais’s…um…everything: The Monkey’s Raincoat, Stalking the Angel, Lullaby Town, Free Fall, Voodoo River, Sunset Express, Indigo Slam, L.A. Requiem, The Last Detective, Demolition Angel, and Hostage. His newest is still in hardcover. Finally [...]
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The Kalahari Typing School for Men (# 4 in the No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series) By Alexander McCall Smith Fiction Read from 1/14/05 – 1/20/05 My Grade: 7 I’ve also read the first three books in the series. Great! I really like the Mma Makutsi plots – her new business and her affair. I [...]
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