We've been back since Monday and today is the first time I've written anything. 599 words but this is a bit of puzzle piece, not quite sure where to stick it or even if I'll use it at all.....
I'm reading an arc of William Dietrich's Rosetta Key. I started it last night at the Art Barn in between setting up and waiting for people to arrive for the event - no I didn't read it in front of anyone else. One of my Uncles who has long since passed away used to spin stories of his exploits in India and the Far East and I used to lap them up. Dietrich's Ethan Gage, reminds me of him and now I have to find Napoleon's Pyramids because that seems to be the first book in the series. Again more fic-history - this one comes out next week.
Also trying to get hold of an arc for The Host - the new Stephenie Meyer - nothing to do with the Twilight series. She's coming to SLC in May and we're hosting (no pun intended!) her.
I reviewed Compulsion before we went away but it's out now so here's the review.
Ten years ago murder made him a millionaire and now he’s turned it into a hobby.
LAPD Detective Milo Sturgis returns from an extended sick leave to zero case load. Then a girl goes missing, a harmless old lady is attacked in her front yard and across the country a serial murderer claims he killed missing 16 year old Antoine Beverly. Swamped, Milo calls on Dr Alex Delaware for help. Alex travels from the bright lights of New York city to a forgotten ghost town North of LA. He and Milo are on the trail of a crafty killer whose twisted ‘benevolence’ leaves a trail of bodies in his wake. Can they catch him before he kills again?
Mar 28, 2008
Mar 26, 2008
Losing You - Nicci French
On her 40th birthday Nina Landry, her son Jackson and daughter Charlie are due to leave remote Sandling Island and jet off to Florida with Nina’s new boyfriend. But 15 year old Charlie vanishes and normal life is suspended. When a desperate Nina can’t get any help from the local police, she turns detective, questioning Charlie’s friends, lovers, even her own ex-husband, uncovering her daughter’s secrets, deconstructing her teenage life in order to save it. But can she? Who can she really trust on this island of secrets? Nina isn’t going to stop until she’s found her daughter but the tide is rising and time is running out.
I couldn’t put this down. French spins a gripping tale out of every parent’s worst nightmare.
I couldn’t put this down. French spins a gripping tale out of every parent’s worst nightmare.
Sepulchre
Past, present, revenge, murder, betrayal, doomed love and tarot cards. It’s all here among the drab of old Paris and the wild beautiful countryside of Southern France.
The story spans 2007 where Meredith Martin an American researching the mercurial composer Claude Debussy in Paris gradually uncovers the legacy of his upstairs neighbour Leonie Vernier a 19th Century Parisienne who arrives at the Domaine de la Cade an estate belonging to her widowed aunt after a headlong flight from Paris. As the plot seesaws between time-periods Meredith travels to the village of Rennes-les-Bains, her luxury hotel, Domaine de la Cade. According to local superstitions a place where devils run free. It is said that the ruined Sepulchre in the grounds is a door between worlds and that a deck of Tarot cards hidden somewhere on the property is the key. The spirit of Leonie wants Meredith to find the cards and bring her justice, but Meredith isn’t the only one who is looking. I much preferred this to Labyrinth Mosse's first book.
The story spans 2007 where Meredith Martin an American researching the mercurial composer Claude Debussy in Paris gradually uncovers the legacy of his upstairs neighbour Leonie Vernier a 19th Century Parisienne who arrives at the Domaine de la Cade an estate belonging to her widowed aunt after a headlong flight from Paris. As the plot seesaws between time-periods Meredith travels to the village of Rennes-les-Bains, her luxury hotel, Domaine de la Cade. According to local superstitions a place where devils run free. It is said that the ruined Sepulchre in the grounds is a door between worlds and that a deck of Tarot cards hidden somewhere on the property is the key. The spirit of Leonie wants Meredith to find the cards and bring her justice, but Meredith isn’t the only one who is looking. I much preferred this to Labyrinth Mosse's first book.
Back to the reading business
Right, won't be leaving the country for at least six months so I'm posting this while still awake. For some arcane reason my body saved up two lots of jetlag and sicced them onto me when we arrived back. Successful trip, downloaded over 100 photos off my camera this morning. I had Wednesday to myself while C was visiting DK in London. I haven't read anything yet 'cos I'm not back at work until tomorrow but I notice that a few books have come out - or are out this week that I've done reviews for so they will be my next few posts.
Mar 8, 2008
Curse of the Spellmans
Izzy Spellman has finally left home but that doesn’t mean she is not still in the family PI business. Dealing with ex-boyfriend #9, a grumpy bartender, Olivia Spellman’s new sabotage streak, loosening up Henry Stone and stopping little sis from running him over with his own car not to mention an awol best friend. Izzy has a lot on her plate including the case of the copy-cat vandal. Also there’s her obsession with “John Brown” the Spellman’s new neighbour. Izzy’s convinced he is up to no good. Can she prove it? Will she get arrested – again?
loads of arcs!!
OK, now it's raining arcs:-) but more of that in a moment.
Book of Air and Shadows, takes a while to get going but once it does... Premise is this. After a fire in a New York bookstore Carolyn Rolly takes a damaged set of books to break them and sell off the illustrations/maps for the owner. Inside the cover she and Albert Crosetti her colleague find clues to what could be one of the greatest discoveries of all time - a lost Shakespeare play. Carolyn offers to sell the papers to a former professor of hers. When that professor is murdered things get out of hand. A tale of revenge, ye olde english, cyphers, blurred identities and forgery. It will keep you turning the pages until the end.
Enjoying the Capra but haven't finished it yet.
Curse of the Spellmans was released in hardback this week but I've been given the arc to keep:-)
I'll post a full review shortly.
These are coming soon but just FYI
Compulsion, Jonathan Kellerman, my first Alex Delaware but not my last.
Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
City of the Sun, David Levien - full reviews as they are released.
Will be off the grid for the next few days as we'll be in Europe and unless I can get to an internet cafe around the university or we drive by one our connection will be sketchy at best.
Book of Air and Shadows, takes a while to get going but once it does... Premise is this. After a fire in a New York bookstore Carolyn Rolly takes a damaged set of books to break them and sell off the illustrations/maps for the owner. Inside the cover she and Albert Crosetti her colleague find clues to what could be one of the greatest discoveries of all time - a lost Shakespeare play. Carolyn offers to sell the papers to a former professor of hers. When that professor is murdered things get out of hand. A tale of revenge, ye olde english, cyphers, blurred identities and forgery. It will keep you turning the pages until the end.
Enjoying the Capra but haven't finished it yet.
Curse of the Spellmans was released in hardback this week but I've been given the arc to keep:-)
I'll post a full review shortly.
These are coming soon but just FYI
Compulsion, Jonathan Kellerman, my first Alex Delaware but not my last.
Hold Tight, Harlan Coben
City of the Sun, David Levien - full reviews as they are released.
Will be off the grid for the next few days as we'll be in Europe and unless I can get to an internet cafe around the university or we drive by one our connection will be sketchy at best.
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