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Category Archives: What I’m Reading

To Play The Fool

Second in Laurie King’s Kate Martinelli series. I am not loving Kate and her veteran partner Al Hawkins nearly as much as I love Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes. I think I’ll just stick with what King does best…

Cold Springs

Another adult detective novel by the author of Percy Jackson. Just a’ight.

A Letter of Mary

Third in the Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series. A really satisfying interlude to the stack of 14 books on my counter.

Before I Go To Sleep

Before I Go To Sleep: A Novel Yikes. This one bothered me. Christine can’t remember ANYTHING every single morning. She wakes up terrorized and has to be talked back into her life for the day. It’s not hard to see that there is a mystery unwinding and I really, really could not put it down. […]

Southtown

Southtown I read this detective/thriller because its author was recommended by my son. Riordan wrote the Percy Jackson series as well as a few others that Ben has liked a lot. He asked me what I thought of this one and I told him that I didn’t think it was great, but it was very […]

A Grave Talent

A Grave Talent Laurie King wrote the Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russell book I was just loving (see below). This the first in a contemporary series featuring San Francisco Police Detective Kate Martinelli. Didn’t love it like the Holmes/Russell books, but once again King is a very deft write who hits at the points a police procedural […]