PROSTITUTE’S BALL by Stephen J. Cannell
I’m practically crying over the demise of this author early in October. He is one of my top five writers and I happened to get this latest and last book on the day I found out about his death. It’s the end of Shane Scully, Alexa and Chooch and I wish it would last forever.
BAD BLOOD by John Sandford
Lawman Virgil Flowers is at his best in this fast moving murder tale with a crack opening and explosive conclusion. What is the reason that a well-liked, stable, high school football player brains a neighbor with a baseball bat and buries him in a mountain of soybeans? Is this murder and others related to a strange and secretive religion?
I, ALEX CROSS by James Patterson
Patterson annoys me by churning out books “with” so many other writers (which I won’t read just for the principle of it) but I can get into a good ol’Alex Cross on occasion. Somehow Patterson manages to make grisly subject s, e.g. Cross’ lovely niece chopped up in a wood chipper, palatable. And, perhaps another dear family member will not live to the end of the episode. I won’t spoil it for you. It is a fast read.
DOGS TAGS by David Rosenfelt
Like this guy’s style, characters, plotting, pacing. Fast read introducing Billy, the war vet who may figure into future stories. Great Milo and Tara, of course,
BODY WORK by Sara Paretsky
This dragged for me and did not always seem to make sense. Body painting artist performing in a bar, someone gets murdered, obscure connection to Iraq war. More poor war vets getting exploited by authors.
LAST WORDS of the Executed by Robert Elder
Freakonomics
FRAGILE by Lisa Ungar
Missing girl in circumstances replicating a crime of 30 years previous. Police chief in The Hollows is hiding a nasty secret.
THE ART OF RACING IN THE RAIN
Enzo the mutt recounts the story of his life and death in a hard to put down tearjerker.
KILLER INSTINCT by Zoe Sharp
The first of the Charlie Fox series presents a sharp female self-defense instructor with a terrible relationship with her parents. She’s been gang raped while in the British Special Forces, rides a Suzuki and spends a lot of the book fending off assaults by bullies and murderers. Good story.
CLAUDE AND CAMILLE
Fictionalized bio of Monet and his lover.
THE ROAD (dvd)
Viggo Mortenson is the father in this excellent portrayal of the Cormac McCarthy book. I enjoyed this.