Wednesday, 3 April 2013

JANUARY - MARCH....AUTHORS NEW TO ME

Kerrie's excellent blog Mysteries in Paradise has asked fellow bloggers to chip in with a summary of the new authors they have read in the first 3 months of the year. My contribution is the following.

Twenty Major - The Order of the Phoenix Park (2008) (2)

Austin S. Camacho - The Payback Assignment  (1999) (3)

Jo Nesbo - The Bat  (2012) (4)

Joe Clifford - Choice Cuts (2012) (4)

Ed Lacey - Room to Swing (1957) (4)

Chuck Palahniuk - Survivor (1999) (3)

Gary Carson - Hot Wire (2012) (3)

John D. Macdonald - The Deep Blue Goodbye (1964) (4)

Richard Morgan - Altered Carbon (2002) (2)

Andrew Nette - Ghost Money (2012) (4)

Adam Hall - The Quiller Memorandum  (1965) (4)

Max Allan Collins - Bait Money (1973) (3)

Randy Wayne White - Sanibel Flats (1990) (4)

Bill Pronzini - The Snatch (1971) (5)

Jack London - The Call of the Wild (1903) (4)

Dorothy B. Hughes - In a Lonely Place (1947) (4)

Henry Baum - The Golden Calf (2000) (4)

H. J. Hampson - The Vanity Game (2012) (4)

18 in total for me, with my non-scientific rating or score after the title. I haven't considered setting myself a target of newbies to read and wouldn't know how many I read last year, though with some time and a bit of inclination I could check back.

There's a couple in there that probably wouldn't stand up as crime fiction, but hey.... and a couple of authors in there I won't be reading again.

Highlights..........Pronzini, Nesbo, MacDonald.

Apologies for the lack of links to my individual posts about the books and a link to the Mysteries in Paradise website.........my pc skills need some tutoring, perhaps I should hone my skills as a challenge for myself. 

 Sorted! Well mostly, apart from the link to the Mysteries in Paradise website - CBA with that one.
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8 comments:

  1. Bernadette4 April 2013 at 00:32

    Wow Col - lots of authors there I haven't tried yet myself. In fact I've only read books by 4 of them I think!



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    1. col29104 April 2013 at 05:22

      Bernadette, I'm hopeful I will discover a few more in the coming months!

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  2. Anonymous4 April 2013 at 03:54

    Some great authors there Col. Glad you like Nesbo!

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    1. col29104 April 2013 at 05:23

      Sarah, still debating with myself whether to jump back in with Nesbo, or hold off until Cockroach is out later in the year.

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  3. Anonymous4 April 2013 at 04:45

    Col - You certainly have gotten lots of good reading done! I am impressed.

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  4. col29104 April 2013 at 05:24

    Margot, so far so good, only a handful of disappointing books thus far. Fingers crossed my luck holds!

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  5. TracyK4 April 2013 at 13:01

    This is an impressive list. I have not read many of these authors either (Nesbo, McDonald, and Pronzini). Andrew Nette's book is a definite for this year. Dorothy B. Hughes and Max Allan Collins sometime soon too.

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    1. col29104 April 2013 at 21:10

      Tracy, I'd recommend Nette's book, definitely set in an unusual locale. Collins I'm hoping to read the follow on from Bait Money this month.

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