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Nice month Barry! I am eager to get to the new Michael Connelly and based on your comments need to add Lisa Unger to my to read list. Sometimes the Kindle freebies turn out to be good ones. I usually have more luck with the Kindle Unlimited choices but grab one of the monthly free books always hoping.
Darkness my old Friend was measurably better than Fragile.
Barry: Good to know! My reading is picking up again on vacation so I may get to one of the books before the end of the year. LOL. Barry wrote: "Darkness my old Friend was measurably better than Fragile."
Reading Fair Warning now! Agree completely with your assessment of King of Tides. I did enjoy the Tony Valentine books that I read by Swain.
After The Burglar, I’m leery about reading another Thomas Perry stand-alone.
Dan- If I did not have it on my shelf from a used book sale, I would not have sought it out. I have found Perry's quality uneven.
nice month! i read fragile awhile ago, but haven't read darkness. one more to add to the TBR.
A Jack Macelvoy novel, well constructed as a murder mystery where the pieces slowly but surely fall into place. As a general subject, it was abuse of DNA data to target women. Some nice twists at the end. (A-)
Darkness my old Friend: Lisa Unger
Sequel to Fragile, and (for me) a much more coherent story. Jonesy, the cop from Fragile is the protagonist, but many others from the town show up, and each as a little piece in the solutions to the mysteries presented, or in the obfuscation of the truth. The asides of the nasty little people in this nasty little town add a realty and a non-linearity that is quite welcome. (B+)
Nomad: James Swallow
British type spy thriller, but good action, even if some departures from reality when needed for the sake of the story. Most double agent type books have you wanting to toss them against a wall, this one pretty much avoided that, but perhaps in a way that real life would not emulate. (B)
King Tides: James Swain
Another of the Amazon cheapos. Free with unlimited, but I still think I do better with the occasional $1.99 buy. Ex navy seal teams up with an FBI agent to solve a teen abduction crime. (B)
Fidelity: Thomas Perry
Nice to find a vicious murderer that has a heart. )B)
The Goodbye Man: Jeffery Deaver
A Colter Shaw novel. Colter infiltrates and cult to expose their murderous fakeness and manages a few other adventures among the twists and turns. (B)
First Shot: John Ryder
One of the Kindle cheapies they occasionally toss at us. This is the first book in a series featuring Fletcher, a cashiered Royal Marine who could well be Reacher with an accent. Of course all of these heroes want to be Reacher, but there is only one. (B)
Firing Point: “Clancy”
I keep saying I am through with the series, and then reading the next book. Here a scientist independently develops a quantum computer to take over the world by killing the scientists working other projects, and teams with a shipping magnate who has built seagoing drones that are killing international shipping. Jack Ryan Jr, in a McGuyver moment, saves the world with a length of rope. (B)
Bad to the Bones: James Harper
Standard sort of PI book, with a PI tasking on a missing persons case that was clearly in the realm of the police, and clearly out of his depth. (B)
Fragile: Lisa Unger
Small town life, plenty of secrets, some deaths and murders. Dust jacket said this was about a missing girl, but it was about the whole life of the town and all of its little secrets. (B)