Marek
Krajewski – Death In Breslau (2008) (3)
Mike Nicol –
Payback (2010) (5)
Joe R Lansdale
– Incident On And Off A Mountain Road (2011) (2.5)
Doug
Johnstone – Smokeheads (2011) (3.5)
Jonathan
Franzen – Freedom (2010) (4)
William
McIlvanney – Laidlaw (1977) (4)
James Lee
Burke – Swan Peak (2008) (3)
Gerald Seymour
– Harry’s Game (1975) (4)
Eight books
read in the month, which is below my target of ten, plus one was a novella type
- long short story which I dropped in to keep my batting average up!
Lansdale and
James Lee Burke, I have read before, but all the others were new to me.
Krajewski,
Lansdale and Burke were all disappointing to a greater or lesser degree.
Franzen and
Johnstone were enjoyable without setting the world on fire.
McIlvanney
and Seymour were top notch, but Mike Nicol’s Payback blew me away and was my
pick of the month.
I've read a few Krajewski books and although they are enjoyable I', not rushing to read any more. I like James Lee Burke but I am so far behind the series I doubt I'd be able to catch up.
ReplyDeleteSarah, I have 2 other Krajewski books on my shelf - buy in haste repent at leisure? Well, I'm hoping that I enjoy them moore than the first. JLB - I think I'm done with him now, I've stopped believing in his main man.
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