Potshot
by Robert B. Parker, 2002, G.P. Putnams Sons This is book in the Spencer for Hire series. It is not worthy of a revue. The plot is thin, the characters are all caricatures, and the ending is unfulfilling. It is … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Fiction
The Summer of the Red Wolf
by Morris L. West, 1971, Compania Financiera Perlina, S.A. This book is a hard one to review. I loved the writing. The setting of the book is in the Hebrides and we had read the Lewis Trilogy (The Black House, … Continue reading →
Past Tense: A Jack Reacher Novel
by Lee Child, Audiobook narrated by Scott Brick, 2018, Random House Audio We listened to this book in the car on our annual migration from Florida to Rhode Island. It was okay, but not Child’s best. The book is about … Continue reading →
Anxious People
by Fredrik Backman, 2019, Atria Books After reading Us Against Them by Backman, I swore I would never read another book by him as I really hated that book. I was presented with this book and decided to read it … Continue reading →
Night Over Water
by Ken Follett, 1991, Macmillan This book had a lot more potential as the setting was a Pan Am Clipper flight which had a diverse set of passengers and crew, all of whom had their individual stories. The problem is … Continue reading →
Killer Smile
by Lisa Scottoline, 2004, Harpertorch, New York The plot of this book is about a case that Mary DiNunzio, a lawyer in Philadelphia, takes for the estate of an Italian-American who died in a detention camp in Montana during World … Continue reading →
Thief River Falls
by Brian Freeman, 2020, Thomas & Mercer, Seattle This is a fast-paced thriller that is about a woman who has made it big as a writer of mystery thrillers, this one taking place in her home town of Thief River … Continue reading →
Mila 18
by Leon Uris, 1961, Doubleday This book is fictional account of the Warsaw Uprising during WWII but it is based on journals that were kept by some of the Jews during that time. The Germans attempted to keep their actions … Continue reading →
Us Against You: A Novel
by Fredrik Backman, Audiobook narrated by Marin Ireland, 2018, Simon & Shuster Audio This novel is the sequel to Beartown, which is about a small town in Sweden obsessed with their hockey team. The prior novel focused on what happened to … Continue reading →
The Great Gatsby
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925 This book was our local book club’s choice for January of this year I thought it was an odd choice as most of the books we read are current non-fiction books. As I read the … Continue reading →