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Tag Archives: mystery
Reading Log: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Stieg Larsson)
I’ve had The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo on my shelf since it was first released (a spontaneous purchase courtesy of a significant sale price and a prominent floor display). I’d tried to get into it at least three times … Continue reading
Reading Log: No Happy Ending (Paco Ignacio Taibo II)
No Happy Ending was one of those fortuitous discoveries made while browsing the used book shelves when I should’ve been working. Previously unknown to me, Paco Ignacio Taibo II appears to be one of Latin America’s most renowned authors. Reading … Continue reading
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Reading Log: The Oxford Murders (Guillermo Martínez)
While perusing the (only) local used bookstore I came across The Oxford Murders) by Guillermo Martínez, which fit nicely into my 10*10*10 Challenge (in "international mysteries"). Only when searching for the Wikipedia link I just used did I discover it … Continue reading
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Reading Log: Roseanna (Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö)
It’s hard not to include the adjectives phlegmatic, tired, and brilliant to describe Inspector Martin Beck, the main character in Roseanna, the first of 10 Swedish detective novels written in the late 60s and early 70s. I get tired and … Continue reading
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Booklog: Inspector Imanishi Investigates (Seicho Matsumoto)
My only disappointment with Inspector Imanishi Investigates was discovering that it’s the only novel in the late Seicho Matsumoto’s Imanishi series (at least one blurb implies there is a series) that has been translated into English. Close on the heels … Continue reading
Booklog: Diamond Solitaire (Peter Lovesey)
Peter Lovesey’s second entry in the (ex)-Detective Peter Diamond series won’t win any awards for plausibility—Diamond, no longer a member of the Bath police force due to a (bogus) charge of unlawful force, has been reduced to working as a … Continue reading
Booklog: The Last Detective (Peter Lovesey)
[I’m going to have a difficult time catching up with my 999 Challenge reading if I keep reading books that even I can’t creatively fit into one of my categories. Nonetheless, I do keep reading, though I have fallen off … Continue reading
Reading Log: Complete Stories of Dorothy Sayers
A while back I posed a question about “literate genre fiction” to a list I belong to, specifically in the areas of mystery/suspense and scifi/speculative fiction and one of the people who responded said they “weren’t sure how literate they … Continue reading