LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART SEVENTY-SEVEN

Tub 77 and an abundance of YA books from my son. Will I read them? Never say never.

Tub 77!

Patricia Highsmith, William Shaw, Kris Nelscott, Gerald Seymour, Jim Dwyer/Kevin Flynn,

Got to love a good thriller!

C.R.O.P.: Covert Rural Observation Posts are places where men like Danny 'Badger' Baxter hide for endless, motionless hours, secretly recording criminal or terrorist activity.But now Badger has a bigger job than photographing dissident Republicans in muddy Ulster fields or Islamic extremists on rainswept Yorkshire moors.I.E.D.: Improvised Explosive Devices are the roadside bombs which account for 80% of British casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan.MI6 have a plan to assassinate the leading maker of these weapons when he leaves his house in Iran to visit Europe. But first, they need to know when he is leaving, and where he is going.So it is that Badger finds himself on the wrong side of the Iranian border, lumbered with a partner he loathes, lying under a merciless sun in a mosquito-infested marsh, observing the house. And knowing that if they are caught, Her Majesty's Government will deny all knowledge of them.Welcome to A Deniable Death.

Book 2 - Breen and Tozer - London in the Swinging Sixties!

In Breen and Tozer's London, a battle for the soul of the city is being fought between cops and criminals, the corrupt and the corruptible.London, November 1968. Detective Sergeant Breen has a death threat in his inbox and a mutilated body on his hands. The dead man was the wayward son of a rising politician and everywhere Breen turns to investigate, he finds himself obstructed and increasingly alienated. Breen begins to see that the abuse of power is at every level of society. And when his actions endanger those at the top, he becomes their target. Out in the cold, banished from a corrupt and fracturing system, Breen is finally forced to fight fire with fire. William Shaw paints the real portrait of London's swinging sixties. Authentic, powerful and poignant, "The Kings of London" reveals the shadow beyond the spotlight and the crimes committed in the name of liberation.

Robert Muchamore x 2, Sophie McKenzie, Joan Aiken, George Monbiot,

Sophie McKenzie, Stuart Neville, Morris Gleitzman, Robert Muchamore, Chris D'Lacey,

Robert Muchamore, Warren Ellis, John Connolly, Larry Brown, Alan Bradley, 

4th Flavia De Luce book!

It's Christmastime, and the precocious Flavia de Luce - an eleven-year-old sleuth with a passion for chemistry and a penchant for crime-solving - is tucked away in her laboratory, whipping up a concoction to ensnare Saint Nick. But she is soon distracted when a film crew arrives at Buckshaw, the de Luces' decaying English estate, to shoot a movie starring the famed Phyllis Wyvern. Amid a raging blizzard, the entire village of Bishop's Lacey gathers at Buckshaw to watch Wyvern perform, yet nobody is prepared for the evening's shocking conclusion: a body found, past midnight, strangled to death with a length of film. But who among the assembled guests would stage such a chilling scene? As the storm worsens and the list of suspects grows, Flavia must use every ounce of sly wit at her disposal to ferret out a killer hidden in plain sight.

Warren Ellis - usually does graphic novels.

This morning Detective John Tallow was bored with his job.

Then there was this naked guy with a shotgun, and his partner getting killed, and now Tallow has a real problem: an apartment full of guns. Old guns. Modified guns. Arranged in rows and spirals on the floor and walls. Hundreds of them.

Each weapon is tied to a single unsolved murder. Which means Tallow has uncovered two decades' worth of homicides that no one knew to connect and a killer unlike anything that came before.
Tallow's bosses don't want him to solve the case. The murderer just wants him to die. But there's a pattern hiding behind the deaths, and if Tallow can figure it out he might even make it out alive

Larry Brown RIP!

Larry Brown's highly praised novel Dirty Work established him as one of the fiercest and most powerful new voices in Southern literature, a writer who understands the sorrows and joys of everyday life. That same compassionate regard for ordinary people shines on every page of Big Bad Love, whose heroes in these stories have a fatal weakness for beer, fast women, and pick-up trucks, and who find a kind of salvation in the reckless pursuit of love.

Stephen Fry, James Ellroy, Garry Disher, Robert Muchamore, Sam Hutton,

I swore off Ellroy after being disappointed by his last couple - but 50p - couldn't turn it down - shame it's a bloody housebrick again!

It is December 6, 1941. America stands at the brink of World War II. Last hopes for peace are shattered when Japanese squadrons bomb Pearl Harbor. Los Angeles has been a haven for loyal Japanese-Americans - but now war fever grips the city, and the Japanese internment begins. The hellish murder of a Japanese family summons three men and one woman.

William H. Parker is a captain on the Los Angeles Police. He's superbly gifted but consumed by dubious ideology. He is bitterly at odds with Sergeant Dudley Smith - ex-IRA killer, fledgling war profiteer.

Kay Lake is a 21-year-old dilettante looking for adventure. Hideo Ashida is a police chemist and the only Japanese on the payroll. The investigation throws them together and rips them apart.

7th Wyatt book from Garry Disher!

Garry Disher's cool, enigmatic anti-hero Wyatt has a job--a jewel heist. The kind Wyatt likes. Nothing extravagant, nothing greedy. Stake out the international courier, one Alain Le Page, hold up the goods in transit and get away fast.

Wyatt prefers to work alone, but this is Eddie Oberin's job. Eddie's very smart ex-wife Lydia has the inside information. Add Wyatt's planning genius and meticulous preparation, and what could possibly go wrong?

Plenty. And when you wrong Wyatt, you don't get to just walk away.

Taut plots, brilliant writing and relentless pace; plus an unforgettable cast, including the ever-elusive Wyatt himself: these are the hallmarks of Garry Disher's Wyatt series.

Justin Halpern, Dick Francis, Joan Aiken, Tom Robbins, Anne Fine, 

Great cover - I hope its better then B is for Beer!

One of Robbins most popular novels, this is a sort of love story that takes place inside a pack of Camel cigarettes. It reveals the purpose of the moon, explains the difference between criminals and outlaws, and paints a portrait of contemporary society that includes powerful Arabs, exiled royalty, and pregnant cheerleaders. It also deals with the problem of redheads.

Hmm....probably not then....

Dick Francis x 4, Jakob Arjouni,

Jo Nesbo, Dick Francis x 4,

Plenty of Dick this week!

The catastrophic power of a giant hurricane can raise coastal waves 30 feet high and blow through houses at amazing speeds. When meteorologist Perry Stuart goes on a hurricane-chasing ride in the Caribbean, he learns about more than wind speed.

German author - Jakob Arjouni!

To rescue a kidnapped prostitute, Kemal Kayankaya must face some of Germany's most depraved and dangerous criminals. Fortunately, some of them are his friends...

Love is never easy - especially when your girlfriend is an illegal Thai prostitute who has been kidnapped (again) by a gang of sex traffickers. Fortunately for the hapless fiancee, wisecracking gumshoe Kemal Kayankaya is on the case. The son of a Turkish garbage collector, he knows a thing or two about living in the ethnic fringes of the ugliest German city of them all: Frankfurt.

Kayankaya plunges into the city's underbelly, where the police don't care if you live or die, and the powerful view an illegal alien as just another paycheck. One Man, One Murder populates its pages with unforgettable characters, whip-smart dialogue, and a connoisseur's collection of grim details. But it is Arjouni's dead-on description of contemporary Europe's racial politics, vacuous nationalism, and social injustice that make his novels rise above the rest.

John Harvey, Donald Westlake, Gerald Seymour, James Herbert, Tom Sharpe, 

Donald Westlake!

From the Grand Master of Mystery comes the latest novel featuring the ever- lovable but hapless crook John Dortmunder.

The con is on. The mark is Monroe Hall, a corrupt CEO who lavished more of his company's money on himself than the boys at Enron and WorldCom combined. The loot? A fleet of vintage automobiles that would leave the Sultan of Brunei blushing. The catch? Trying to outsmart a collection of angry union men who've been taken for a ride and blue-blooded suckers who've been taken for their family fortunes. But if Dortmunder and his merry band of crooks are to drive off with the loot, they'll have to act fast-before they get caught in a deadly crossfire.

Tom Sharpe - 70s satire!

Kommandant van Heerden, the chief of police of Piemburg, terrorizes true Englishmen and even truer Zulus in his search for a perfect South Africa, while Luitenant Verkramp and Dr. von Blimenstein try to use aversion therapy to enforce chastity.

Jim Thompson, Jo Nesbo, Kjell Eriksson, Tonino Benacquista, Anthony Borudain, 

French crime!

"Breathless pace. Touches effortlessly on identity, love, alcohol, and the cynicism of the business world."-Les Echos

Who hasn't wanted to become "someone else"? Over a drink in Paris, two men give each other three years to see which one can more radically alter his life. Blin becomes a private detective. He takes on a new identity, even a surgically altered face. Gredzinski, a self-effacing corporate executive, discovers liquor that evening and rapidly yields to the sensuality and self-confidence induced by alcoholism. Things get complicated when Blin is hired by an ex-lover to find himself and when Gredzinski secretly follows his girlfriend to her home. A helter-skelter tale of humor and suspense.

Winner of the literary prize RTL-Lire.

Kjell Eriksson - Swedish crime series

A Swedish county commissioner walks out of a high-level meeting and disappears. Many years later, one of the town's natives is convinced that he's caught a glimpse of the missing man while traveling in Bangalore, India. When the rumors reach his hometown, a veteran police officer stumbles across a seemingly unrelated case. Ann Lindell, Eriksson's series detective, must investigate a severed female foot found where a striking number of inhabitants are single men. But the owner of the house where the victim believed to have lived is no longer able to answer any questions.

Tub 77 put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS... Larry, Brown, Garry Disher, Tonino Benacquista, William Shaw, Donald Westlake, Stuart Neville, 

LOWLIGHTS..... 13 YA/Children's books that somehow got mixed up with mine! Patricia Highsmith,

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
AIKEN	JOAN	THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE	1962	WOWC1
AIKEN	JOAN	NIGHT BIRDS ON NANTUCKET	1966	WOWC3
ARJOUNI	JAKOB	ONE MAN, ONE MURDER	1996
BENACQUISTA	TONINO	SOMEONE ELSE	2005
BOURDAIN	ANTHONY	KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL	2000
BRADLEY	ALAN	I AM HALF-SICK OF SHADOWS	2011	FDLM4
BROWN	LARRY	BIG BAD LOVE	1990
CONNOLLY	JOHN	THE BLACK ANGEL	2005	CP5
DISHER	GARRY	WYATT	2010	W7
D'LACEY	CHRIS	THE SALT PIRATES OF SKEGNESS	2002
DWYER/FLYNN	JIM/KEVIN	102 MINUTES	2005
ELLIS	WARREN	GUN MACHINE	2013
ELLROY	JAMES	PERFIDIA	2014
ERIKSSON	KJELL	THE HAND THAT TREMBLES	2011	AL4
FINE	ANNE	BAD DREAMS	2000
FRANCIS	DICK	TO THE HILT	1996
FRANCIS	DICK	FIELD OF 13	1998
FRANCIS	DICK	10LB PENALTY	1997
FRANCIS	DICK	SECOND WIND	1999
FRANCIS	DICK	THE EDGE	1988
FRANCIS	DICK	REFLEX	1980
FRANCIS	DICK	DECIDER	1993
FRANCIS	DICK	SHATTERED	2000
FRANCIS	DICK	COMEBACK	1991
FRY	STEPHEN	STEPHEN FRY IN AMERICA	2008
GLEITZMAN	MORRIS	THEN	2008	F+G2
HALPERN	JUSTIN	SH*T MY DAD SAYS	2010
HARVEY	JOHN	GONE TO GROUND	2007	WG+HW1
HERBERT	JAMES	NOBODY TRUE	2003
HIGHSMITH	PATRICIA	THOSE WHO WALK AWAY	1967
HUTTON	SAM	SPECIAL AGENTS: DEEP END	2005	SA1
McKENZIE	SOPHIE	GIRL, MISSING	2006	GM1
McKENZIE	SOPHIE	HUNTED	2011	MP4
MONBIOT	GEORGE	BRING ON THE APOCALYPSE: 6 ARGUMENTS FOR GLOBAL JUSTICE	2008
MUCHAMORE	ROBERT	THE RECRUIT	2004	C1
MUCHAMORE	ROBERT	MAN VS. BEAST	2006	C6
MUCHAMORE	ROBERT	DIVINE MADNESS	2006	C5
MUCHAMORE	ROBERT	THE FALL	2007	C7
MUCHAMORE	ROBERT	SHADOW WAVE	2010	C12
NELSCOTT	KRIS	THIN WALLS	2002	SD3
NESBO	JO	THE REDEEMER	2009	HH6
NESBO	JO	THE REDBREAST	2006	HH3
NEVILLE	STUART	STOLEN SOULS	2011	JLI3
ROBBINS	TOM	STILL LIFE WITH WOODPECKER	1980
SEYMOUR	GERALD	A DENIABLE DEATH	2011
SEYMOUR	GERALD	KINGFISHER	1977
SHARPE	TOM	INDECENT EXPOSURE	1973
SHAW	WILLIAM	A HOUSE OF KNIVES	2014	B+T2
THOMPSON	JIM	NOW AND ON EARTH	1942
WESTLAKE	DONALD	THE ROAD TO RUIN	2004	D11