Monday 29 December 2014

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART TWELVE

After a brief break from blogging, I'm back!

Another 50 from tub number 12.......
Tub 12


3 from Brian Garfield, Stuart Kaminsky and Michael Van Rooy


Can't beat a tatty well-read crime novel!

2 Hit-man books from Estelman, a Simenon, another Kaminsky and Stephen Jay Schwartz

Joe Gores, Brian Freemantle, Seymour Shubin, John Ball - Virgil Tibbs and John McFetridge of Black Rock fame.

C.J. Box, another Garfield, A Lew Archer from Ross Macdonald, Ed McBain and William Marshall

Macdonald and Marshall

3 from Larry Fondation, Chad Taylor (NZ), 1940's classic from Boris Vlan

Fesperman, Herron, John Ball, Don Carpenter and Juan Gomez-Jurado

Van Rooy x 2, John Ball again, John R  Maxim and Sean Stuart O'Connor

Nice cover, I'll let you know on the book

David Park, Dave Warner (AUS), John Mulligan, Tim O'Brien, Harlan Coben

Charles Bukowski, James Ross (30's crime), Jerry Stahl, Robert O'Connor - I think this was made into a film with Joachin Phoenix, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza (Brazil)

Tub 12 - a different view!

Mick Herron, Brian Freemantle, Brady Udall and two random books acquired from I don't know where - Kate Morton, Lisa Genova

Looking forward to this one!




Not particularly looking forward to Kate Morton or Lisa Genova though who knows I may be surprised.

Roll on Bukowski, Schwartz, Freemantle, Van Rooy and Brian Garfield in particular. All the rest look eminently readable and potentially enjoyable.

Another tub next week!

Full list of 50 ....

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES FICTION/NON
BALL JOHN THEN CAME VIOLENCE 1980 VT6 F
BALL JOHN SINGAPORE 1986 VT7 F
BALL JOHN THE EYES OF BUDDHA 1976 VT5 F
BOX C.J. BELOW ZERO 2009 JP9 F
BUKOWSKI CHARLES SOUTH OF NO NORTH 1975 F
CARPENTER DON HARD RAIN FALLING 1968 F
COBEN HARLAN LIVE WIRE 2011 MB10 F
ESTELMAN LOREN D. KILL ZONE 1984 PM1 F
ESTELMAN LOREN D. ANY MAN'S DEATH 1986 PM3 F
FESPERMAN DAN THE DOUBLE GAME 2012 F
FONDATION LARRY ANGRY NIGHTS 1995 LAS1 F
FONDATION LARRY UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES 2009 LAS4 F
FONDATION LARRY FISH, SOAP AND BONDS 2007 LAS3 F
FREEMANTLE BRIAN THE RUN AROUND 1988 CM8 F
FREEMANTLE BRIAN RED STAR RISING 2010 CM14 F
GARCIA-ROZA LUIZ ALFREDO BLACKOUT 2008 IE6 F
GARFIELD BRIAN RECOIL 1977 F
GARFIELD BRIAN THE PALADIN 1980 F
GARFIELD BRIAN DEEP COVER 1972 F
GARFIELD BRIAN TRIPWIRE 1973 F
GENOVA LISA LEFT NEGLECTED 2010 F
GOMEZ-JURADO JUAN THE TRAITOR'S EMBLEM 2011 F
GORES JOE CASES 1999 F
HERRON MICK SLOW HORSES 2010 F
HERRON MICK THE LAST VOICE YOU HEAR 2004 ZB2 F
KAMINSKY STUART M. RED CHAMELEON 1985 IR3 F
KAMINSKY STUART M. BLACK KNIGHT IN RED SQUARE 1984 IR2 F
MACDONALD ROSS THE INSTANT ENEMY 1968 LA14 F
MARSHALL WILLIAM YELLOWTHREAD STREET 1975 YS1 F
MAXIM JOHN R. TIME OUT OF MIND 1986 F
McBAIN ED LADIES 1988 87P F
McFETRIDGE JOHN BELOW THE LINE 2003 F
MORTON KATE THE FORGOTTEN GARDEN 2008 F
MULLIGAN JOHN SHOPPING CART SOLDIERS 1997 F
O'BRIEN TIM THE NUCLEAR AGE 1985 F
O'CONNOR SEAN STUART THE PRISONER'S DILEMNA 2013 F
O'CONNOR ROBERT BUFFALO SOLDIERS 1993 F
PARK DAVID THE TRUTH COMMISSIONER 2008 F
ROSS JAMES THEY DON'T DANCE MUCH 1940 F
SCHWARTZ STEPHEN JAY BOULEVARD 2009 HG1 F
SHUBIN SEYMOUR MY FACE AMONG STRANGERS 1999 F
SIMENON GEORGES  THE YELLOW DOG 1987 MAIGRET F
STAHL JERRY PLAINCLOTHES NAKED 2001 MR1 F
TAYLOR CHAD DEPARTURE LOUNGE 2006 F
UDALL BRADY THE MIRACLE LIFE OF EDGAR MINT 2001 F
VAN ROOY MICHAEL AN ORDINARY DECENT CRIMINAL 2005 M1 F
VAN ROOY MICHAEL A CRIMINAL TO REMEMBER 2010 M3 F
VAN ROOY MICHAEL YOUR FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURHOOD CRIMINAL 2008 M2 F
VIAN BORIS I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVES 1948 VS1 F
WARNER DAVE CITY OF LIGHT 1995 F

14 comments:

  1. Hi Col:
    I hope that you like the William Marshall "Yellowthread Street". His series is among my absolute favorites. No pressure!

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    1. Glen, I bought a few of Marshall's books (and Parnell Hall) after you recommended both of them to me. I will hopefully enjoy both authors in 2015. We can compare notes then!

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  2. Hi, Glad to see you back. I missed you.

    Some interesting authors in that tub. I have the Garcia-Roza book, but there are others in that series I would like to read first. Also the book by Gomez-Jurado (Glen gave me that one).

    The Stuart Kaminsky series set in Russia is a favorite of mine. I have read about half of them.

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    1. Tracy - thank you. It's kind of you to say. I think I needed a bit of a break from blogging - both reading others and my own for a week or two. I had a hectic time at work and was a bit under the weather also so just took myself off the net. I'm hoping to catch up on all I've missed in the past fortnight in the next few days.
      I hope you and the gang had a great Christmas!

      I'm fairly sure I followed up on Kaminsky after one of your reviews. I have enjoyed Cruz Smith's early Renko books in the past and haven't revisited Russia since in my reading. Roll on 2015 - I think I bought the first 4 or 5.....unusually restrained for me!

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    2. We did have a relaxing and quiet Christmas, the kind we like. We are still relaxing because we are still off until New Year's Day. Buying more books that I should. Watching movies and TV series.

      Hope you are feeling better now.

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    3. Yes fine now thanks, though one of my daughters now has the lurgy.....coughing, spluttering, sneezing - I think we will all have a turn with it before it moves on.
      Glad to hear your Christmas was relaxing. Same here - I'm off until the 5th, but my wife is back at work later today.

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  3. Welcome back. This one looks like it holds some older items? - more historical? I read the Brian Garfield, The Paladin, a long time ago, and liked it very much.

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    1. Cheers Moira - your mail has kick-started me into action again! I think it might be 50-50 as to last century- this century as far as the published dates of the books go. I had planned on reading a few of them this year for one of the challenges I foolishly signed up to.....hmm that never happened.

      I do like Brian Garfield. I've just read another of his for Rich's 1971 meme which I enjoyed.

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  4. Hi Col! I was wondering where you'd vanished. A leave of absence, however brief, is good for a lot of things, particularly for reading and doing nothing else. I have Brian Garfield's THE PALADIN and though I haven't read it, I know for a fact that it's a very good book. I see a lot of familiar names, read and unread, among which Loren D. Estleman is a fine writer of westerns. I have not read Stuart M. Kaminsky.

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    1. Prashant - you can't get rid of me for too long! Thanks for wondering. I have enjoyed all the Garfield books I have read so far....3 - I think in total. I like the fact that he isn't over-long. I've not tried Estelman's westerns, just one maybe two of his crime fiction. He's been fairly prolific over the years he has been published.
      Re Kaminsky - I have yet to try him myself. His Inspector Rostnikov series, of which my books are a part of, runs to 16 titles in total. I'll see how I go with the first few, but doubt I will have time (or the money) to get to them all! Let's hope they are enjoyable without blowing my socks off, otherwise I'll feel compelled to continue!

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    2. Col, have you read Garfield's THE ROMANOV SUCCESSION? It was his first novel I read and I couldn't put it down. It's about a US plot to assassinate Stalin after the Bolshevik Revolution.

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    3. Prashant - no not yet, I'm afraid, though I'm 95% certain I have it in the stacks. I'll put it to one side when I find it, so that I read either THE PALADIN (a favourite of Moira's) or this one you mentioned next when I need something short but good!

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  5. I really must read some Ross Macdonald -- *note to self*!

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    1. Vicki.......I too have the same note, I've not yet tried him.....hangs head in shame

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