Another week and tub 72 under the microscope!
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Tub 72 |
Oops, this is actually tub 73! Doh!
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Jason Webster, Garry Disher, Dave Stanton x 2, Joan Brady, |
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Non-fiction by Joan Brady |
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Donald E. Westlake, Chelsea Cain, Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter x 2, |
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Ray Winstone, Robert Schofield, Patrick Hoffman, J. Mark Bertrand, Chris Holbrook, |
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Top actor - Ray Winstone |
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Patrick Hoffman |
At a dive bar in San Francisco's edgy Tenderloin district, the dishevelled Emily Rosario is drinking whiskey and looking for an escape. When she is approached by a mysterious and wealthy Russian, she thinks she has found an exit from her drifter lifestyle and drug-addict boyfriend. A week later she finds herself drugged, disoriented and wanted for robbery.
On the other side of town, cop Leo Elias is broke, alcoholic and desperate. When he hears about an unsolved bank robbery, the stolen money proves too strong a temptation. Elias takes the case into his own hands, hoping to find the criminal and the money before anyone else does.
With sharply drawn characters and twists that surprise until the end, The White Van introduces a strong new talent.
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Mark SaFranko, Adrian McKinty, James W. Ziskin, Mark Pryor, Kathryn Rogers, |
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Adrian McKinty - Sean Duffy series. |
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Mark SaFranko |
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Ellen Kirschman, Mark SaFranko, A. D. Garrett, Terry Shames, Ken Livingstone, |
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A. D. Garrett, |
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Larry D. Sweazy, Robert B. Parker/Helen Brann, Carter Dickson, Clifford Hanley, Mark Dawson, |
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Carter Dickson, |
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John Carenen, Roger Jon Ellory, Jerome K. Jerome, Judy Nedry, Brian Hamm, |
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Marlen Haushofer, Karin Slaughter, Marc Pastor, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Maurin, |
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Marlen Haushofer |
Considered her greatest literary achievement, Marlen Haushofer's The Wall is the story of one quite ordinary, unnamed middle-aged woman who awakens to find she is the last living human on Earth. Surmising her solitude to be the result of a too successful military experiment, she begins the terrifying work of not only survival, but self-renewal. Variously interpreted as an ironic Robinson Crusoe story, a philosophical parable of human isolation and as dystopian fiction, The Wall is at once a simple survival story and a disturbing meditation on twentieth-century history. First published in English more than twenty years ago,
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M. J. Carter, Katie Gilmartin, Walter Mosley, Margaret Moore, Cal Moriarty, |
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Cal Moriarty |
Bobbi Lomax was the first to die, the bomb killed the prom queen on her own front lawn.
Just moments later one of the nails from the city's second bomb forced its way into the brain of property investor Peter Gudsen, killing him almost instantly.
The third bomb didn't quite kill Clark Houseman. Hovering on the brink, the rare books dealer turns out to be Detectives Sinclair and Alvarez's best hope of finding out what linked these unlikely victims, and who wanted them dead and why. But can they find the bomber before he kills again?
Set deep in the religious heartlands of America, The Killing of Bobbi Lomax follows this troubled investigation as a narrative of deceit, corruption and forgery emerges, with an unlikely hero at its heart - a rare coins, books and manuscript dealer - who could either be a genius or the devil.
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Walter Mosley |
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Lori Rader-Day, Adrian McKinty, Soji Shimara, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Pierre Boileau/Thomas Nercejac, |
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Adrian McKinty - Sean Duffy and some size 9 loafers, |
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Alexander Lernet-Holenia |
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Tub 72 - put to bed! |
Since taking the happy snaps for this tub back in December, 2015 I've read three of these already......
Terry Shames, Ellen Kirshman, Garry Disher - so a slight dent has been made.
HIGHLIGHTS...... Patrick Hoffman, Mark SaFranko, Donald E. Westlake, Dave Stanton, Adrian McKinty, Soji Shimara,
LOWLIGHTS....... not too much, though the
Tess Gerritsen and
Karin Slaughter's are probably more my wife's cup of tea than mine. I will very probably enjoy them though.
FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:
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TITLE |
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SERIES |
BOILEAU/NARCEJAC |
PIERRE/THOMAS |
SHE WHO WAS NO MORE |
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BRADY |
JOAN |
AMERICA'S DREYFUS |
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CAIN |
CHELSEA |
EVIL AT HEART |
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CARENEN |
JOHN |
SIGNS OF STRUGGLE |
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CARTER |
M. J. |
THE INFIDEL STAIN |
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DAWSON |
MARK |
BLOOD MOON RISING |
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DICKSON |
CARTER |
THE JUDAS WINDOW |
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DISHER |
GARRY |
THE HEAT |
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ELLORY |
ROGER JON |
CANDLEMOTH |
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GARRETT |
A. D. |
EVERYONE LIES |
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GERRITSEN |
TESS |
THE SILENT GIRL |
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GILMARTIN |
KATIE |
BLACKMAIL, MY LOVE |
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HAMM |
BRIAN |
THE ART BROKER |
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HAMMETT |
DASHIELL |
THE HUNTER AND OTHER STORIES |
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HANLEY |
CLIFFORD |
THE TASTE OF TOO MUCH |
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HAUSHOFER |
MARLEN |
THE WALL |
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HOFFMAN |
PATRICK |
THE WHITE VAN |
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HOLBROOK |
CHRIS |
HELL AND OHIO |
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JEROME |
JEROME K. |
THREE MEN IN A BOAT |
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KIRSCHMAN |
ELLEN |
THE RIGHT WRONG THING |
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LERNET-HOLENIA |
ALEXANDER |
I WAS JACK MORTIMER |
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LIVINGSTONE |
KEN |
YOU CAN'T SAY THAT |
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MAURIN |
THOMAS |
BROKEN TRUST |
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McKINTY |
ADRIAN |
GUN STREET GIRL |
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McKINTY |
ADRIAN |
I HEAR THE SIRENS IN THE STREETS |
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MOORE |
MARGARET |
BROKEN CHORD |
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MORIARTY |
CAL |
THE KILLING OF BOBBI LOMAX |
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MOSLEY |
WALTER |
AND SOMETIMES I WONDER ABOUT YOU |
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NEDRY |
JUDY |
THE DIFFICULT SISTER |
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PARKER/BRANN |
ROBERT B./HELEN |
SILENT NIGHT |
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PASTOR |
MARC |
BARCELONA SHADOWS |
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PRYOR |
MARK |
HOLLOW MAN |
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RADER-DAY |
LORI |
LITTLE PRETTY THINGS |
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ROGERS |
KATHRYN |
MEMPHIS HOODOO MURDERS |
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SAFRANKO |
MARK |
THE SUICIDE |
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SAFRANKO |
MARK |
DIRTY WORK |
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SCHOFIELD |
ROBERT |
MARBLE BAR |
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SHAMES |
TERRY |
A DEADLY AFFAIR AT BOBTAIL RIDGE |
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SLAUGHTER |
KARIN |
FALLEN |
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SLAUGHTER |
KARIN |
BROKEN |
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SLAUGHTER |
KARIN |
CRIMINAL |
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SOJI |
SHIMARI |
THE TOKYO ZODIAC MURDERS |
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STANTON |
DAVE |
DARK ICE |
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STANTON |
DAVE |
HARD PREJUDICE |
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SWEAZY |
LARRY D. |
A THOUSAND FALLING CROWS |
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WEBSTER |
JASON |
A DEATH IN VALENCIA |
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WESTLAKE |
DONALD E. |
DANCING AZTECS |
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WINSTONE |
RAY |
YOUNG WINSTONE |
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ZISKIN |
JAMES W. |
STONE COLD DEAD |
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BERTRAND |
J. MARK |
BACK ON MURDER |
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I'm running a bit behind and haven't yet established year of publication, author gender, nationality, series entry or fiction/non-fiction status for the all-important OCD spreadsheet! |
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Col, I have read almost nothing by Dashiell Hammett and hope to read some of his Sam Spade and Continental Op books in future.
ReplyDeletePrashant, I think though I may well be wrong that there is some of his stuff available legally - Project Gutenberg. Or else I got some of his stories at Munsey's - a site which seems to have disappeared for good now.
DeleteAh, yes, McKinty, Westlake, Mosley, you do have some good reading there, Col. And I saw that Carr in there, too. Oh, and I've heard that Everyone Lies is a good 'un. I hope you'll enjoy it when you get there.
ReplyDeleteMargot, plenty to like here. Moira kindly sent me the Carr (and the Hanley) - I ought to read them soon! I don't know too much about EVERYONE LIES, but hopefully I will like it when the time comes.
DeleteLooks like some good ones there. I have read a few by Tess Gerritsen. And have more on the shelves.
ReplyDeleteTracy, my wife enjoys her more than I do TBH.
DeleteReally like the Mark SaFranko cover above, though never heard of him. Some other goodies too. Not including The Wall, which I read when it came out and did not like.
ReplyDeleteI did read one of his last year - THE FAVOR and featured him on a "2 BY" post. I think even he would agree he flies a bit below most people's radars.
DeleteI'm not a massive fan of the dystopian novel, but I quite like the sound of Haushofer's book.