Monday 14 March 2016

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-TWO




Another week and tub 72 under the microscope!

Tub 72
Oops, this is actually tub 73! Doh!

Jason Webster, Garry Disher, Dave Stanton x 2, Joan Brady,

Non-fiction by Joan Brady

Donald E. Westlake, Chelsea Cain, Tess Gerritsen, Karin Slaughter x 2,

Ray Winstone, Robert Schofield, Patrick Hoffman, J. Mark Bertrand, Chris Holbrook,

Top actor - Ray Winstone

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.
Mark SaFranko, Adrian McKinty, James W. Ziskin, Mark Pryor, Kathryn Rogers,

Adrian McKinty - Sean Duffy series.

Mark SaFranko

Ellen Kirschman, Mark SaFranko, A. D. Garrett, Terry Shames, Ken Livingstone,

A. D. Garrett,

Larry D. Sweazy, Robert B. Parker/Helen Brann, Carter Dickson, Clifford Hanley, Mark Dawson,

Carter Dickson,

John Carenen, Roger Jon Ellory, Jerome K. Jerome, Judy Nedry, Brian Hamm,

Marlen Haushofer, Karin Slaughter, Marc Pastor, Dashiell Hammett, Thomas Maurin,

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,
M. J. Carter, Katie Gilmartin, Walter Mosley, Margaret Moore, Cal Moriarty,

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.
Walter Mosley

Lori Rader-Day, Adrian McKinty, Soji Shimara, Alexander Lernet-Holenia, Pierre Boileau/Thomas Nercejac,

Adrian McKinty - Sean Duffy and some size 9 loafers,

Alexander Lernet-Holenia

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:


AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
BOILEAU/NARCEJAC PIERRE/THOMAS SHE WHO WAS NO MORE
BRADY JOAN AMERICA'S DREYFUS
CAIN CHELSEA EVIL AT HEART
CARENEN JOHN SIGNS OF STRUGGLE
CARTER M. J. THE INFIDEL STAIN
DAWSON MARK BLOOD MOON RISING
DICKSON CARTER THE JUDAS WINDOW
DISHER GARRY THE HEAT
ELLORY ROGER JON CANDLEMOTH
GARRETT A. D. EVERYONE LIES
GERRITSEN TESS THE SILENT GIRL
GILMARTIN KATIE BLACKMAIL, MY LOVE
HAMM BRIAN THE ART BROKER
HAMMETT DASHIELL THE HUNTER AND OTHER STORIES
HANLEY CLIFFORD THE TASTE OF TOO MUCH
HAUSHOFER MARLEN THE WALL
HOFFMAN PATRICK THE WHITE VAN
HOLBROOK CHRIS HELL AND OHIO
JEROME JEROME K. THREE MEN IN A BOAT
KIRSCHMAN ELLEN THE RIGHT WRONG THING
LERNET-HOLENIA ALEXANDER I WAS JACK MORTIMER
LIVINGSTONE KEN YOU CAN'T SAY THAT
MAURIN THOMAS BROKEN TRUST
McKINTY ADRIAN GUN STREET GIRL
McKINTY ADRIAN I HEAR THE SIRENS IN THE STREETS
MOORE MARGARET BROKEN CHORD
MORIARTY CAL THE KILLING OF BOBBI LOMAX
MOSLEY WALTER AND SOMETIMES I WONDER ABOUT YOU
NEDRY JUDY THE DIFFICULT SISTER
PARKER/BRANN ROBERT B./HELEN SILENT NIGHT
PASTOR MARC BARCELONA SHADOWS
PRYOR MARK HOLLOW MAN
RADER-DAY LORI LITTLE PRETTY THINGS
ROGERS KATHRYN MEMPHIS HOODOO MURDERS
SAFRANKO MARK THE SUICIDE
SAFRANKO MARK DIRTY WORK
SCHOFIELD ROBERT MARBLE BAR
SHAMES TERRY A DEADLY AFFAIR AT BOBTAIL RIDGE
SLAUGHTER KARIN FALLEN
SLAUGHTER KARIN BROKEN
SLAUGHTER KARIN CRIMINAL
SOJI SHIMARI THE TOKYO ZODIAC MURDERS
STANTON DAVE DARK ICE
STANTON DAVE HARD PREJUDICE
SWEAZY LARRY D. A THOUSAND FALLING CROWS
WEBSTER JASON A DEATH IN VALENCIA
WESTLAKE DONALD E. DANCING AZTECS
WINSTONE RAY YOUNG WINSTONE
ZISKIN JAMES W. STONE COLD DEAD
BERTRAND J. MARK BACK ON MURDER
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!

8 comments:

  1. Col, I have read almost nothing by Dashiell Hammett and hope to read some of his Sam Spade and Continental Op books in future.

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    1. Prashant, 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.

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  2. Ah, 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.

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    1. Margot, 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.

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  3. Looks like some good ones there. I have read a few by Tess Gerritsen. And have more on the shelves.

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    1. Tracy, my wife enjoys her more than I do TBH.

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  4. Really 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.

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    1. I 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.
      I'm not a massive fan of the dystopian novel, but I quite like the sound of Haushofer's book.

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