LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART EIGHTY-FOUR

Tub 84 this week and on the home stretch I think - I might reach 90, I might not.

TUB 84!

Adam Hall, Carl Hiaasen, Edward Bunker, Rory Flynn, Simon Armitage, 

Edward Bunker - posthumously published

Ex-con. Author. Actor. Legend. Edward Bunker is one of the acknowledged masters of crime fiction. Written in the late 1960's and discovered after Bunker's death in 2005, Stark is his first and perhaps his most explosive novel ever.

1962. Oceanview, California. The girls are beautiful. The dope is cheap. The squares here are ripe for the plucking--easy money for a man with a plan. Ernie Stark is a hophead and a grifter out to make a big score. If he has to screw over everyone in town, he will. The problem is one more misstep will find him locked up for good.Violent, lightening paced and exotic, filed with the most wonderful cast of lowlifes you'll ever meet and dialogue that crackles, this is the lost novel for mystery lovers everywhere and the legion of fans of the legendary Edward Bunker.

Jake Arnott, Gar Anthony Haywood, Boris Starling, Christopher Wilson, Neil Cross, 

Crap photo - interesting book!

The Ballad of Lee Cotton (2005)
(Cotton)
A novel by Christopher Wilson

From his Icelandic father Lee Cotton gets his marble skin and blue eyes. From his mixed-race mother he gains his black identity. From his Mambo grandmother he inherits forebodings about his future. It's a combination that sets Lee apart from the other black kids growing up in Eureka, Mississippi. It marks Lee out as slightly odd. And very white. If childhood was confusing, adolescence proves life changing when Lee falls in love with the sublime Angelina. It's also life threatening: Angel's father is a freelance shooter for the Klan, who doesn't take kindly to his daughter's boyfriend. An act of appalling violence leaves Lee far from home with a new identity, a draft card, a memory that operates in flashback and a mental illness that makes him a sort of genius. He also has a reputation, back home, for being dead. Nobody (except possibly his grandmother) could envisage that Lee's rebirth is a headstart and not a handicap. His role in a quite remarkable journey through life will be to transform others as he has transformed himself...

Neil Cross, Chris Simms, Alan Furst, Andrew Vachss, Oonagh O'Hagan, 

Andrew Vachss - short stories!

A chilling collection of tales chronicles the stories of a stalker prowling an urban high-rise, a serial killer whose crimes reflect a childhood of abuse, and an inner-city gunman willing to destroy any number of victims to achieve a moment of acceptance.

Colin Bateman, Ian Sansom, Russell James, Ryan Gatiss, Neville Thompson (edited),

Stories from an Irish Prison!

Every day the population of Ireland wakes up to reports of another horror case of crime. The streets have become unsafe to walk upon and yet nothing seems to be done about it. Politicians make noises voicing their disgust while the police make arrests only to have the perpetrators walk free. Despite all the media hype, no one seems to be any nearer to solving the problem.Streetwise reveals what is really happening on the streets. The stories contained here are told by prisoners: those who have been involved in crime and are now paying their debt to society, allowing the reader to enter the minds of criminals and begin to understand the circumstances behind their actions. Meet Chang, who started joyriding at eight years old and was infamous among police and legendary among fellow law-breakers by the age of 12; Mucka, a once saintly schoolboy who was abandoned by both his family and society so took to robbing as a form of revenge; PJ, man of the house and breadwinner at 11, alcoholic by 12; and Tommy, the divorc who was refused social welfare so robbed the Co-op of a million Euros and soon found the local wing of the IRA knocking at his door. An exhilarating, emotional roller coaster, Street Wise contains frank accounts from those who have succumbed to crime through boredom, poverty or desperation. It shows how men from different backgrounds have fallen into similar crime traps and what has finally placed them on the path to redemption.

Russell James

When a young woman is gruesomely murdered, her friend and fellow reporter Kirsty Rice feels bound to investigate. Just as Kirsty enters the murky world of call-girls, porn and Internet sex, she discovers that she is pregnant. Despite his unconvincing denials, Kirsty is shocked to discover that the father of her unborn child is involved with the pornographers. Did he know about the killing? And how far was he mixed up with London's infamous Miller family? No One Gets Hurt is a tense and powerful thriller, hurtling from a truly shocking opening to an even more shattering climax.

Hans Fallada, Conrad Williams, Daniel Silva, Pall Thomas, Gavin Lyall, 

New Zealand Crime!

Tito Ihaka, the unkempt, overweight Maori cop, was demoted to Sergeant due to insubordination and pigheadedness. He investigates the unsolved killing of a seventeen-year-old girl at an election night party in a ritzy villa near Auckland. Ihaka is also embroiled in a very personal mystery. A freelance journalist has stumbled across information that Ihaka's father, Jimmy, a trade union firebrand and renegade Marxist, didn't die of natural causes. The stories weave themselves into an exciting climax in an atmosphere of political maneuvering and intrigue surrounding the United States' confrontation with New Zealand over its anti-nuclear stance.

Martina Cole, James McClure, Graham Hurley, Gavin Lyall, Walter Mosley, 

T. Jefferson Parker, Peter Robinson x 2, Val McDermid, John LeCarre, 

Debut novel from 1985 - T' Jefferson Parker!

Laguna...
Where every day the sun makes a promise the nighttime breaks, while the super-rich live out expensive fantasies in posh beach houses and drown their memories in Cuervo Gold margaritas...

Laguna...
Where trouble has swept in like a Santa Ana wind, blowing the cover off a world of torture, murder and blood-red secrets

Laguna...
Where a crazed killer has turned paradise into a Disneyland of depraved violance--with a fiery vengeance--and where homicide cop Tom Shephard unravels a grisly mystery that reaches back across forty years of sordid sex, blackmail, and suicide into the dark corners of his own past, and sweats out a deadly truth in the sweltering..

Laguna Heat

S. J. Rozan, Marcus Sakey, Richard Stark, Ben Richards, Michael Symmons Roberts, 

Westlake AKA Stark - the last Parker - no.24!

 "[One] of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...Richard Stark, real name Donald Westlake...His Parker books form a genre all their own."
--John Banville, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea

Master criminal Parker takes another turn for the worse as he tries to recover loot from a heist gone terribly wrong. In Nobody Runs Forever, Parker and two cohorts stole the assets of a bank in transit, but the police heat was so great they could only escape if they left the money behind. In this follow-up novel, Parker and his associates plot to reclaim the loot, which they hid in the choir loft of an unused country church. As they implement the plan, people on both sides of the law use the forces at their command to stop Parker and grab the goods for themselves. Though Parker's new getaway van is an old Ford Econoline with "Holy Redeemer Choir" on its doors, his gang is anything but holy, and Parker will do whatever it takes to redeem his prize, no matter who gets hurt in the process.

Bill Pronzini x 2.5, Marcia Muller x 0.5, Dick Francis, Mike Ripley, 

Husband and wife - tag-team Nameless mystery - no. 13!

The "Nameless Detective" and Sharon McCone join forces at a San Diego private detective convention to investigate a case involving multiple murder, a crime ring dealing in smuggled fugitives, and bizarre, kinky lifestyles.

Cathi Unsworth, Tim Willocks, Howard Jacobson, Jesmyn Ward, Natsuo Kirino, 

Jesmyn Ward - non-fiction!

"We saw the lightning and that was the guns; and then we heard the thunder and that was the big guns; and then we heard the rain falling and that was the blood falling; and when we came to get in the crops, it was dead men that we reaped." -Harriet Tubman

In five years, Jesmyn Ward lost five young men in her life-to drugs, accidents, suicide, and the bad luck that can follow people who live in poverty, particularly black men. Dealing with these losses, one after another, made Jesmyn ask the question: Why? And as she began to write about the experience of living through all the dying, she realized the truth-and it took her breath away. Her brother and her friends all died because of who they were and where they were from, because they lived with a history of racism and economic struggle that fostered drug addiction and the dissolution of family and relationships. Jesmyn says the answer was so obvious she felt stupid for not seeing it. But it nagged at her until she knew she had to write about her community, to write their stories and her own.

Jesmyn grew up in poverty in rural Mississippi. She writes powerfully about the pressures this brings, on the men who can do no right and the women who stand in for family in a society where the men are often absent. She bravely tells her story, revisiting the agonizing losses of her only brother and her friends. As the sole member of her family to leave home and pursue higher education, she writes about this parallel American universe with the objectivity distance provides and the intimacy of utter familiarity. A brutal world rendered beautifully, Jesmyn Ward's memoir will sit comfortably alongside Edwidge Danticat's Brother, I'm Dying, Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, and Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.

Tub 84 put to bed!

HIGHLIGHTS..... Edward Bunker, Colin Bateman, Richard Stark, Rory Flynn, Carl Hiaasen, Bill Pronzini, Andrew Vachss

LOWLIGHTS...... nothing too uninteresting, though the HANS FALLADA book isn't singing out to me.

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:

AUTHOR		TITLE	YEAR	SERIES
ARMITAGE	SIMON	LITTLE GREEN MAN	2001
ARNOTT	JAKE	JOHNNY COME HOME	2006
BATEMAN	COLIN	DIVORCING JACK	1995	DS1
BUNKER	EDWARD	STARK	2007
COLE	MARTINA	THE JUMP	1995
CROSS	NEIL	HOLLOWAY FALLS	2003
CROSS	NEIL	ALWAYS THE SUN	2004
FALLADA	HANS	ALONE IN BERLIN	1947
FLYNN	RORY	THIRD RAIL	2014	EH1
FRANCIS	DICK	UNDER ORDERS	2006	SH4
FURST	ALAN	THE POLISH OFFICER	1995	NS3
GATTIS	RYAN	ROO KICKKICK AND THE BID BAD BLIMP	2004
HALL	ADAM	QUILLER BARRACUDA	1990	Q14
HAYWOOD	GAR ANTHONY	IT'S NOT A PRETTY SIGHT	1996	AGM4
HIAASEN	CARL	STORMY WEATHER	1995	S3
HURLEY	GRAHAM	BLOOD AND HONEY	2006	F+W6
JACOBSON	HOWARD	IN THE LAND OF OZ	1987
JAMES	RUSSELL	NO ONE GETS HURT	2003
KIRINO	NATSUO	OUT	2003
LE CARRE	JOHN	THE NAÏVE AND SENTIMENTAL LOVER	1971
LYALL	GAVIN	THE SECRET SERVANT	1980	HM1
LYALL	GAVIN	THE CONDUCT OF MAJOR MAXIM	1982	HM2
McCLURE	JAMES	THE STEAM PIG	1971	K+Z1
McDERMID	VAL	THE GRAVE TATTOO	2006
MOSLEY	WALTER	BLUE LIGHT	1998
O'HAGAN	OONAGH	I LICK MY CHEESE	2007
PARKER	T. JEFFERSON	LAGUNA HEAT	1985
PRONZINI	BILL	QUARRY	1991	N19
PRONZINI	BILL	BREAKDOWN	1991	N18
PRONZINI/MULLER	BILL/MARCIA	DOUBLE	1984	N13
RICHARDS	BEN	THROWING THE HOUSE OUT OF THE WINDOW	1996
RIPLEY	MIKE	JUST ANOTHER ANGEL	1988	FMA1
ROBINSON	PETER	PAST REASON HATED	1991	IB5
ROBINSON	PETER	FRIEND OF THE DEVIL	2007	IB17
ROZAN	S. J.	BLOOD RITES	2001	BS+LC7
SAKEY	MARCUS	THE TWO DEATHS OF DANIEL HAYES	2011
SANSOM	IAN	RING ROAD	2004
SILVA	DANIEL	THE UNLIKELY SPY	1996
SIMMS	CHRIS	SHIFTING SKIN	2006	DIJS2
STARK	RICHARD	DIRTY MONEY	2008	P24
STARLING	BORIS	VISIBILITY	2006
SYMMONS ROBERTS	MICHAEL	PATRICK'S ALPHABET	2006
THOMAS	PAUL	FALLOUT	2015	TI5
THOMPSON	NEVILLE	STREETWISE (ed.)	2004
UNSWORTH	CATHI	THE NOT KNOWING	2005
VACHSS	ANDREW	BORN BAD	1986
WARD	JESMYN	MEN WE REAPED	2013
WILLIAMS	CONRAD	DUST AND DESIRE	2015	JS1
WILLOCKS	TIM	BLOODSTAINED KINGS	1995
WILSON	CHRISTOPHER	THE BALLAD OF LEE COTTON	2005