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Eighteen Below – Stefan Ahnhem – A Cut Above!

Eighteen Below - Stefan Ahnhem

Well I didn’t do badly in writing in January,  it over the last week I have been slipping behind. Here’s a short post to try to catch up a little.

Eighteen Below – Stefan Ahnhem (Fabian Risk #3)

Yesterday, I finished my second read for February. It was Eighteen Below by Stefan Ahnhem. It is the third book in the Fabian Risk series. I read books one and two Victim without a Face and The Ninth Grave In 2018. The series has quickly become one of my favorites. Read More

Six Great Books Start 2019 with a Bang!!

The Other Wife - Michael Robotham one of the books read in January

Here are the book I read in January of 2019. They certainly have gotten my reading year off to a great start!

  1. 1. She Rides Shotgun – Jordan Harper

The she that is riding shotgun is young Polly McCluskey .And she’s riding shotgun with her father Nate McCluskey. Nate is just getting out of prison when he runs afoul of the leader of the Aryan Brotherhood. The leader put out a green light on his murder . That puts everyone he cares for including his ex-wife and daughter Polly in danger. Read More

Van Jones’ Beyond the Messy Truth Kick Starts My 2019 Reading!

Beyond the Messy Truth - Van Jones
Van Jones’ Beyond the Messy Truth – How We Came Apart-How We Come Together Kicks Starts 2019

So last year I reached what I thought was an unreachable Reading Challenge goal of reading 65 books. At some point in the next week or two I will recap what I read and how those books fit into my various sub-Reading Challenges! Additionally, I will be creating and writing about my 2019 Reading Challenges. Read More

The Mourners – Bill Pronzini (Nameless Detective #30)

The Mourners - Bill Pronzini

The Mourners – Bill Pronzini – (Nameless Detective # 30)

So when you read your fifteenth book in a mystery series, one would think that you have read most of the books in that series. That unless the author of the series is grandmaster Bill Pronzini and the series is his “Nameless Detective” series. The first book in the series was released in 1971! The total number of books in the series now stands at 40! Yikes, I haven’t even read half of the books! Read More

Steve Hamilton’s Alex McKnight is Back!! Yeah!

Steve Hamilton - Dead Man Running
Books From Two Favorite Authors – Steve Hamilton and William Kent Krueger Arrive!

Back in July, I wrote a post to both remind myself and to let readers know that books from three of my favorite authors were being releasedt in August. The three authors,whose books were being released on August 21st, were Karin Slaughter, William Kent Krueger and Steve Hamilton. Read More

The Human Division -The Worlds of the Old Man’s War Series – John Scalzi

The Worlds of  Old Man’s War Series – John Scalzi

So the other day I finished the first book in my Other World’s Reading Challenge. The world that I visited or should I say “revisited” was the world that John Scalzi has created in his “Old Man’s War” series. The book that I read was The Human Division. It is book five in the series. Read More