After a brief break from blogging, I'm back!
Another 50 from tub number 12.......
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| Tub 12 |
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| 3 from Brian Garfield, Stuart Kaminsky and Michael Van Rooy |
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| Can't beat a tatty well-read crime novel! |
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| 2 Hit-man books from Estelman, a Simenon, another Kaminsky and Stephen Jay Schwartz |
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| Joe Gores, Brian Freemantle, Seymour Shubin, John Ball - Virgil Tibbs and John McFetridge of Black Rock fame. |
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| C.J. Box, another Garfield, A Lew Archer from Ross Macdonald, Ed McBain and William Marshall |
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| Macdonald and Marshall |
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| 3 from Larry Fondation, Chad Taylor (NZ), 1940's classic from Boris Vlan |
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| Fesperman, Herron, John Ball, Don Carpenter and Juan Gomez-Jurado |
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| Van Rooy x 2, John Ball again, John R Maxim and Sean Stuart O'Connor |
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| Nice cover, I'll let you know on the book |
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| David Park, Dave Warner (AUS), John Mulligan, Tim O'Brien, Harlan Coben |
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| 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) |
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| Tub 12 - a different view! |
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| Mick Herron, Brian Freemantle, Brady Udall and two random books acquired from I don't know where - Kate Morton, Lisa Genova |
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Looking forward to this one!
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
Hi Col:
ReplyDeleteI hope that you like the William Marshall "Yellowthread Street". His series is among my absolute favorites. No pressure!
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!
DeleteHi, Glad to see you back. I missed you.
ReplyDeleteSome 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.
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.
DeleteI 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!
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.
DeleteHope you are feeling better now.
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.
DeleteGlad to hear your Christmas was relaxing. Same here - I'm off until the 5th, but my wife is back at work later today.
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.
ReplyDeleteCheers 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.
DeleteI do like Brian Garfield. I've just read another of his for Rich's 1971 meme which I enjoyed.
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.
ReplyDeletePrashant - 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.
DeleteRe 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!
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.
DeletePrashant - 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!
DeleteI really must read some Ross Macdonald -- *note to self*!
ReplyDeleteVicki.......I too have the same note, I've not yet tried him.....hangs head in shame
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