Author Archives: beckylindroos

This gets more sexually graphic than I’m used to in crime thrillers.  Box’s Cassie Dewell sseries gets pretty rough, but I think this is a step worse on the scale.  These are “females in jeopardy” books – aka Fem-Jep and they … Continue reading →

From residentjudge.at: “It’s Six Degrees of Separation Saturday, the meme hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite And Best . The idea is that Kate chooses a starting book, in this case Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential, then you bounce off six … Continue reading →

These two books are a novella and its sequel – A Psalm for the Wild-Built is the first and A Prayer for the Crown-Shy is the second. Buying them together is not expensive and you’ll have the second when you … Continue reading →

I’ve been reading this series in order and I just don’t think Betrayal is as good as the 6 priors in the Robin Lockwood books. Parts are quite good, especially an embedded mystery and its resolution.   And the courtroom … Continue reading →

I don’t know why, but it took me awhile to get into this book. It’s not terribly long, but covers quite a lot of everything with a brilliant intensity.  The setting is the coastal area of South Korea basically from … Continue reading →

This is a good one in the Joe Pickett series, one of the best maybe, but I’ve got 17 books to go – LOL!   Free Fireby C.J. Box – 2007 (book) Read by David Chandler 11h 5mRating – A++ / … Continue reading →

I’d been eyeing this book for awhile.  It’s the first of a 2-book series, the first book, this one, has a sequel.  It’s basically about 2 creatures, one human, the other a robot, who live together in the wilderness set … Continue reading →

Jeff Goodell had written several books on the environment before boarding a research ship for a trip with the scientists to study the effects of climate change at Thwaites Glacier on the western coast of Antarctica.  Thwaites Glacier is sometimes … Continue reading →

I only finished because I wanted to get that child saved.  I won’t read any more of or about Joe Dillard; they’re too grizzly. Last ResorBy Scott PrattRead by Tim Campbell 8h 20mRating: C / crime thriller (#10 in the Joe … Continue reading →

This is from a gifted  writer I’d never heard of before. He’s got 7, now 8, books to his name and I think they’re all collections essays. touches him emotionally and that contributes to his brilliance with the written word. … Continue reading →

I haven’t read a John Lescroart novel for a year and a half!  I used to love his legal thrillers and get the new onse in a series as they came out. But then after a half dozen books the … Continue reading →

Thi is a very good book BUT I have a couple of things I’d like to mention.  First – Hochschild is not a historian – not an academic one at any rate. He’s a journalist and teaches narrative writing for … Continue reading →

A new book in the Mickey Haller series by Michael Connelly is released every two or three years and I’ve looked forward to this one ever since it was announced. I don’t pre-order anything because personally, I want to start … Continue reading →

For decades I read real dead tree and ink books and loved them dearly – I’d say I did that for 68 years or so. And I was usually a voracious reader. But some time within the past 20 years … Continue reading →

Mitch McDeere, John Grisham’s protagonist for the 1991 legal thriller, The Firm (1991), is back in Memphis to check on a possible pro-bono death penalty case. This novel, The Exchange, is # 2 in the series, and takes place in … Continue reading →

This book was so compelling I just wanted to lose myself in it and just skip the jigsaw puzzle or whatever in front of me  (like crocheting while listening to the radio – not a biggie). What the Dead Know:Learning … Continue reading →

Ahhh….True Crime – a book to relax with – (maybe?) – but I might fall asleep –  “The causes of their deaths was either calamity or overwhelming force.”  So said the original Russian government report of 1959 about the violent … Continue reading →