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Category: 2019 Reads

Cliff Walk by Bruce DeSilva Another Great Read!

Cliff Walk - Bruce DeSilvaCliff Walk  (Mulligan #2) – Bruce DeSilva

The question of the day is: Have you ever bought a book based on the quote by an author on the cover of a book??

EK Discovers Bruce DeSilva’s Liam Mulligan

I did just that  earlier this year, after finding, The Dread Line by Bruce DeSilva at the Dollar Tree. I had never heard of Bruce DeSilva. However, Steve Hamilton is one of my favorite authors, and his quote about the book, convinced me it was worth taking a dollar chance on the book. Read More

A Beautiful Corpse – Christi Daugherty

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A Beautiful Corpse – Christi Daugherty (Book #2 – Harper McClain)

A Beautiful Corpse is the second book in Christi Daugherty’s series featuring newspaper crime reporter Harper McClain. I read the first book in the series The Echo Killing earlier this year. Both were really, really good. In both books the murders that form the core of the book have a connection to Harper. In The Echo Killing the murder eerily resembles her mother’s unsolved murder. While in A Beautiful Corpse the victim Naomi Scott a law student tends bar in an establishment that Harper frequents and where her best friend works. Read More

The Disappearing – Lori Roy – Edgar Worthy!

The Disappearing - Lori Roy
The Disappearing – Lori Roy

Lori Roy’s first novel Bent Road was published in 2011. In 2012 it won an Edgar Award for best first novel. Lori’s third book Let Me Die in His Footsteps was published in 2015. It won an Edgar for Best Novel in 2016. That win made Lori thee first woman to win An Edgar Allen Poe Award for both  Best First Novel and Best Novel. She’s only the third person to do it overall! Read More

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