Category: books

This was an old one from Ed McBain. It’s kind of weird reading something from the 1950s with the lack of technology (one of the characters didn’t even have a TV!). Anyway, this was kind of a standard-issue McBain novel. My rating: 3/5

This book was all about what happened at the barbecue. Of course, you don’t find out what that was for a long time (and the whole story doesn’t come out until the very end), but it made for a compelling read. The story is told in a non-linear fashion, which …

This one was very twisty. Just when you thought things were exposed, it went in another direction. I liked this book, but it took me a while to read. At first glance, it reminded me of Hark! but Connelly managed to pull off a similar idea without being cheesy. For …

This was an enjoyable book and I’m looking forward to seeing the movie. It was about a widowed curmudgeon whose personality is transformed by an unintended friendship with a family who moves in next door to him. So, not my usual kind of novel, but it was good. My rating: …

Just when you think you have the formula figured out, Grafton throws a wrench into things. I hope there are more like this because it was one of my favorites so far. It didn’t hurt that there were seemingly fewer characters to keep track of than usual. My rating: 3.5/5