Title: X
Author: Sue Grafton
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: December 8, 2018 while staying at 339 1/2 North Orange Grove Avenue in Los Angeles
When was the book published: 2015
Main Characters: Kinsey Milhone
What happens? Kinsey is invited by a woman to find her lost son-given-up-for-adoption, which is totally misleading and draws her into a criminal plot. She also helps her landlord deal with bizarre new neighbors, and works an old case that Pete, a former PI that she didn't like, was working a case to expose a deranged Ned Lowe.
How long was this? 403 pages
Did I like this? I did, Wendy didn't care for it but I was pulled in.
Overall grade: A-
Saturday, December 19, 2015
Blackwater Sound by James W. Hall
Title: Blackwater Sound
Author: James T. Hall
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: December 2 in Los Angeles at 339 1/2 North Orange Grove Drive
When was the book published: 2002
Main Characters:
What happens? A family loses its brilliant son in a bizarre fishing accident, but uses his inventions to get rich, including designing a device that can bring down a jetliner.
How long was this? 339 pages
Did I like this? a little hard to believe but good stuff, might want to try him again
Overall grade: A-
Author: James T. Hall
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: December 2 in Los Angeles at 339 1/2 North Orange Grove Drive
When was the book published: 2002
Main Characters:
What happens? A family loses its brilliant son in a bizarre fishing accident, but uses his inventions to get rich, including designing a device that can bring down a jetliner.
How long was this? 339 pages
Did I like this? a little hard to believe but good stuff, might want to try him again
Overall grade: A-
The Devil Wins by Reed Farrel Coleman
Title: The Devil Win
Author: Reed Farrel Coleman
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: Nov 19, 2015
When was the book published: 2015
Main Characters: Jesse Stone, some bad people in his town
What happens? An old case from twenty years ago re-emerges when three bodies are found. Two are girls who were abducted and murdered twenty years ago, and the third is a member of the bad guys who they executed.
How long was this? 352 pages
Did I like this? Yeah, he does a pretty good Robert Parker
Overall grade: B+
Author: Reed Farrel Coleman
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: Nov 19, 2015
When was the book published: 2015
Main Characters: Jesse Stone, some bad people in his town
What happens? An old case from twenty years ago re-emerges when three bodies are found. Two are girls who were abducted and murdered twenty years ago, and the third is a member of the bad guys who they executed.
How long was this? 352 pages
Did I like this? Yeah, he does a pretty good Robert Parker
Overall grade: B+
The One That Got Away by Simon Wood
Title: The One That Got Away
Author: Simon Wood
Did I listen or read?: Library book?
When did I finish?: Nov 12, 2015
When was the book published: 2015
Main Characters:
What happens? Serial killer goes after two girls, one gets away, years later, they both wind up living in SF and she sees TV coverage of his latest victim, appears at the scene, and on TV.
How long was this? 295 pages
Did I like this? pretty good, all around, no weaknesses
Overall grade: B+
Author: Simon Wood
Did I listen or read?: Library book?
When did I finish?: Nov 12, 2015
When was the book published: 2015
Main Characters:
What happens? Serial killer goes after two girls, one gets away, years later, they both wind up living in SF and she sees TV coverage of his latest victim, appears at the scene, and on TV.
How long was this? 295 pages
Did I like this? pretty good, all around, no weaknesses
Overall grade: B+
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