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Throne of Glass – Sarah J Maas

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Throne of Glass – Sarah J Maas – (Book 6 for 2014)

 

So the question is: Can a 63 year-old grandfather love a book that features an eighteen year-old kick-ass female protagonist? The answer is a resounding hell yes!! The book is Throne of Glass and the heroine is Celaena Sardothian the Adarlan Assassin who has been captured and sent to a slave labor camp. Celaena has amazingly survived 1 and 1/2 years in the Endovier Salt Mines, when the story begins. The novel opens when Crown Prince Dorian Havillliard of Adarlan visits and makes Celaena and offer she can’t refuse return with him to Rifchold and be his champion in a competition to be his father, the King’s Champion! If she wins and serves the King for four years, she will be set free. Soon Celaena is on her way to join a competition against twenty-three killers, thieves and warriors to become the King’s Champion and ultimately be set free.

Soon Celaena is in the competition of her life against not only the assembled competitors but against an evil that is lose in the Castle. An evil that is brutally slaying the competitors one by one. But Celaena is not in the fight alone, along the way she is helped by the spirit of the first Queen of Adarlan Elena, and from Princess Nehemia Ytger of Eyllwe, Celaena’s naive land. A land that has been subjugated by Adarlan forces. Celaena’s presence upsets the whole castle as Crown Prince Dorian sees her as more than just his champion in the competition and Chaol the Captain of the Guard must not only protect Celaena from danger, but also Dorian from the dangerous Celaena!!

I thought that the book was a well-written page turner with just the right mix of mysticism and suspense. I enjoyed all the main characters Celaena, Dorian, Chaol and Nehemia. I also thought that the attraction between Chaol and Celaena and Dorian and Celaena was handled just about right!

Here’s a quote from Kirkus Reviews that sums up my thoughts about Throne of Glass fairly well…..

“Woven in the vein of a Tolkien fantasy….This commingling of comedy, brutality and fantasy evokes a rich alternate universe with a spitfire young woman as its brightess star.”

Bottom line: Throne of Glass is a strong 4.5 out of 5 book. It was exciting and entertaining throughout the book. It was a great choice for my first exploration of the Young Adult genre and I look forward to checking out similar books! I already have the second book in the series checked out of the library. I don’t know if I can put off reading it long enough to finish some of the other books that I am reading or planned to read!! Oh, what the hell maybe I’ll just start it. What do you think??

Links for Further Explorations of Sarah J Maas and Throne of Glass

Sarah J Maas Website
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Twitter: Sarah J Maas
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Sanctus Book 1 of the Sancti Trilogy – Simon Toyne

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SanctusInside the Citadel in the ancient city of Ruin resides a select group of monks charged with protecting the Sacrament, along with thousands of ancient texts discovered over the millennium.  The nature of the Sacrament is known only to a select few of those monks – the Sancti. But when Brother Samuel is initiated into the Sancti, and discovers what the Sacrament is, he decides can not live with that knowledge or continue to belong to the Sancti. He makes a harrowing and torturous climb to the top of the Citadel, where he stands for hours in a pose symbolic of the Tau, the symbol of the Sancti, before plunging to his death. So begins Sanctus, first book of the Ruin trilogy from British author Simon Toyne. The questions left unanswered are: Why did he do it? What did he see that lead him to take his own life?

I picked up Sanctus in Dollar General for $3.00 because it looked like the type of book that I enjoy, one that combines history with action and while the historic aspects of the story are somewhat fictional the action and the characters more than make up for it. The key character in the book is newspaper reporter Liv Adamson, who is the identical twin of Brother Samuel. Actually, they were the first conjoined twins to be different sexes. The story revolves around Liv’s attempt to discover the why of Samuel’s death. Liv hadn’t seen her brother in eight years and assumed was dead!  Of course, the Sancti want no one to know the secret of the Sacrament, and will do anything to stop Liv’s search, while others including members of an ancient rival religious sect of the Sancti want to help!

Sanctus is rather lengthy 578 pages, but the writing is crisp, and the characters and action kept me turning the pages quickly, particularly through the second half of the book, once I knew all the players!

Several of the reviews of Sanctus, I read at Goodreads.com were negative because the readers felt that Toyne did not develop the  city or the people of Ruin realistically enough. The reviewers felt the setting could be any city or police force in the US or the world. Again, I thought the action and characters more than made up for any lack of geographic  “sense of place”. I did feel that the descriptions and feel for the Citadel, the mountain fortress of the Sancti, was well done. I had a feel for the dark library that housed thousands of historic documents and the spectral images of the monks that worked within the library

Bottom Line: I thoroughly enjoyed the book and will  move on quickly to the second book in the trilogy – The Key. I think that if you enjoy the books of Dan Brown and Chris Kuzneski you’ll enjoy Sanctus.

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Book 34 for 2014 – Here’s the Trailer for Sanctus

A Year of Discovery from William G Tapply to James Lee Burke – 1990

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Dead Winter - William G Tapply

I started to keep track of the books that I read  in 1988. I kept record of them in   A Book Lover’s Journal  and wrote short blurbs about the books.

Here is a list of the 54 books that I read in 1990. That’s the most books read of any year, since I’ve   kept records!

 

Dead Winter – William G Tapply and the Start of a Beautiful Friendship

Reviewing the list, I see that it was the year I discovered William G Tapply’s Brady Coyne. After reading  Dead Winter, the eighth book in the series, which was released in 1989, I quickly went back and read the prior seven books!

Tapply wrote 20 more Brady Coyne novels of which I’ve read 16.  Books #21 Shadow of Death and #25 One-Way Ticket are on my to be read bookshelves!

Maybe it’s time to rediscover this great series!

Mongo Frederickson another Series Becomes a Favorite

In 1990 the second most read  series was the Mongo Mystery series from George C Chesbro. I read four books from this series. From Goodreads….

Dr. Robert Frederickson, or “Mongo” to his friends. He’s a former circus tumbler, black belt in karate, doctor of Criminology, and professor at a New York City university. And he’s quite an unusual fellow as well, not only because he’s a private investigator but also because he’s a dwarf…

The stories and the characters in this are terrific! Chesbro wrote 13 Mongo books of which I’ve read 12.  The first seven books are probably my favorites. Here’s a link to a great synopsis of the work of George C Chesbro. Check it out and Chesbro’s work at Dangerousdwarf.com you won’t be disappointed!!

The Complete List of Books Read in 1990

Of course 1990’s reads also included some books by  other favorites like James Lee Burke, Loren Estleman, Bill Pronzini, Tony Hillerman  and Stuart Kaminsky. Here’s the complete list!

TitleAuthor
The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone (A Mongo Mystery, #6)George C. Chesbro
Dark Side (Loren Swift Mystery)Doug Hornig
The Cat’s MeowRobert Wright Campbell
Saturday Night DeadR.D. Rosen
Murder on the HudsonDon Flynn
Perfect EndWilliam Marshall
Extenuating CircumstancesJonathan Valin
Nibbled to Death by DucksRobert Wright Campbell
The Man Who Met the Train (Carl Wilcox, #7)Harold Adams
An Affair of Sorcerers (A Mongo Mystery, #3)George C. Chesbro
PeeperLoren D. Estleman
Dead WinterWilliam G. Tapply
The Language of Cannibals (A Mongo Mystery, #8)George C. Chesbro
The Man Who Walked Like a Bear (Porfiry Rostnikov, #6)Stuart M. Kaminsky
Follow the Sharks (Brady Coyne, #3)William G. Tapply
You Bet Your Life (Toby Peters, #3)Stuart M. Kaminsky
Out of NowhereWilliam Marshall
Coyote Waits (Navajo Mysteries, #10)Tony Hillerman
The Marine Corpse (Brady Coyne, #4)William G. Tapply
Death at Charity’s Point (Brady Coyne, #1)William G. Tapply
Gone to EarthRick Boyer
Quicksilver (Nameless Detective, #11)Bill Pronzini
A Void in Hearts (Brady Coyne, #7)William G. Tapply
Deadfall (Nameless Detective, #15)Bill Pronzini
Murder Among FriendsFrank McConnell
The Vulgar Boatman (Brady Coyne, #6)William G. Tapply
The Frog KingFrank McConnell
Wall of Glass (Joshua Croft, #1)Walter Satterthwait
A Ticket to the Boneyard (Matthew Scudder, #8)Lawrence Block
Blood LakeFrank McConnell
Icy Clutches (Gideon Oliver, #6)Aaron Elkins
Dead Meat (Brady Coyne, #5)William G. Tapply
Jackpot (Nameless Detective, #17)Bill Pronzini
At Ease with the Dead (Joshua Croft, #2)Walter Satterthwait
Sweet Women Lie (Amos Walker Mystery #10)Loren D. Estleman
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1)James Lee Burke
Shadow of a Broken Man (A Mongo Mystery, #1)George C. Chesbro
Client PrivilegeWilliam G. Tapply
Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3)James Lee Burke

1990 – I discovered William G. Tapply’s Brady Coyne and Elizabeth was born! A great year!

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Dead WinterI started to keep track of the books that I read  in 1988. I kept record of themin   A Book Lover’s Journal  and wrote short blurbs about the books. Here is a list of the 54 books that I read in 1990. That’s the most books read of any year, since I’ve   kept records! Reviewing the list, I see that it was the year I discovered William G Tapply’s Brady Coyne. After reading  Dead Winter, the eighth book in the series, which was released in 1989, I quickly went back and read the prior seven books! Tapply wrote 20 more Brady Coyne novels of which I’ve read 16.  Books #21 Shadow of Death and #25 One-Way Ticket are on my to be read bookshelves! Maybe it’s time to rediscover this great series! In 1990 the second most read  series was the Mongo Mystery series from George C Chesbro. I read four books from this series. From Goodreads….

Dr. Robert Frederickson, or “Mongo” to his friends. He’s a former circus tumbler, black belt in karate, doctor of Criminology, and professor at a New York City university. And he’s quite an unusual fellow as well, not only because he’s a private investigator but also because he’s a dwarf…

The stories and the characters in this are terrific! Chesbro wrote 13 Mongo books of which I’ve read 12.  The first seven books are probably my favorites. Here’s a link to a great synopsis of the work of George C Chesbro. Check it out and Chesbro’s work at Dangerousdwarf.com you won’t be disappointed!! Of course 1990’s reads also included some books by  other favorites like James Lee Burke, Loren Estleman, Bill Pronzini, Tony Hillerman  and Stuart Kaminsky. Here’s the complete list!

Title Author
The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone (A Mongo Mystery, #6) George C. Chesbro
Dark Side (Loren Swift Mystery) Doug Hornig
The Cat’s Meow Robert Wright Campbell
Saturday Night Dead R.D. Rosen
Murder on the Hudson Don Flynn
Perfect End William Marshall
Extenuating Circumstances Jonathan Valin
Nibbled to Death by Ducks Robert Wright Campbell
The Man Who Met the Train (Carl Wilcox, #7) Harold Adams
An Affair of Sorcerers (A Mongo Mystery, #3) George C. Chesbro
Peeper Loren D. Estleman
Dead Winter William G. Tapply
The Language of Cannibals (A Mongo Mystery, #8) George C. Chesbro
The Man Who Walked Like a Bear (Porfiry Rostnikov, #6) Stuart M. Kaminsky
Follow the Sharks (Brady Coyne, #3) William G. Tapply
You Bet Your Life (Toby Peters, #3) Stuart M. Kaminsky
Out of Nowhere William Marshall
Coyote Waits (Navajo Mysteries, #10) Tony Hillerman
The Marine Corpse (Brady Coyne, #4) William G. Tapply
Death at Charity’s Point (Brady Coyne, #1) William G. Tapply
Gone to Earth Rick Boyer
Quicksilver (Nameless Detective, #11) Bill Pronzini
A Void in Hearts (Brady Coyne, #7) William G. Tapply
Deadfall (Nameless Detective, #15) Bill Pronzini
Murder Among Friends Frank McConnell
The Vulgar Boatman (Brady Coyne, #6) William G. Tapply
The Frog King Frank McConnell
Wall of Glass (Joshua Croft, #1) Walter Satterthwait
A Ticket to the Boneyard (Matthew Scudder, #8) Lawrence Block
Blood Lake Frank McConnell
Icy Clutches (Gideon Oliver, #6) Aaron Elkins
Dead Meat (Brady Coyne, #5) William G. Tapply
Jackpot (Nameless Detective, #17) Bill Pronzini
At Ease with the Dead (Joshua Croft, #2) Walter Satterthwait
Sweet Women Lie (Amos Walker Mystery #10) Loren D. Estleman
The Neon Rain (Dave Robicheaux, #1) James Lee Burke
Shadow of a Broken Man (A Mongo Mystery, #1) George C. Chesbro
Client Privilege William G. Tapply
Black Cherry Blues (Dave Robicheaux, #3) James Lee Burke

Amanda Kyle Williams – The Stranger You Seek and it’s off to book two!

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The Stranger You Seek - Amanda Kyle Williams

Originally Published in Nov 2014 REvised and Updated Feb 2026

So last week I wrote that I was struggling through The Stranger You Seek the first of the Keye Street novels from Amanda Kyle Williams. Tonight I went to the library to get book 2 in the series Stranger in the Room!

It’s easy to explain the reason , stealing and editing a line from Monty Python and the Holy Grail “It Got Better!!

I guess that it took a while for the story to grab me, but once it did it didn’t let go until the last twist and turn in the plot!

About The Stranger You Seek – Keye Street #1

The protagonist of the book is Keye Street, an ex-FBI profiler who was a rising star in the agency, until her alcohol addiction brought her career crashing down.

Now Keye is a working PI in Atlanta chasing down bail jumpers, catching adulterers, serving subpoenas, that is until her best friend Atlanta Police Detective Aaron Rauser calls her to help him out on a grisly murder case.

The case’s profile quickly  rises soon turning into a hunt, for the “Wishbone” killer. As the killer taunts Rauser and Street, the hunt turns personal, with Keye and Rauser in the killer’s crosshairs.

My Minor Problems Are Overcome

Now, back to the problems that I see as minor and were overcome  by the storyline.  Elizabeth B. in her review at Goodreads didn’t see it that way though… she wrote……

… The main character was just the most annoying narrator ever. It was as if every problem a person could have was built in by the author. Flawed is one thing but you pretty easily degenerate into Mary Sue-ish and that’s exactly what happened here. Freakish name? Check. Bad family history? Check. Discrimination from childhood? Check. Drugs and/or alcohol abuse? Check. But I’m a survivor and will overcome everything all by my lonesome? Check.  Read More At Goodreads

I really didn’t think it was that bad and by the end of the book, I liked Keye and Rauser, and saw them as a team that I could root for!

Final Thoughts

Bottom line: A strong twisting ending made the book a good read and a series that I will follow at least into the next book Stranger in the Room. so Check it Out!

Grade: B – over the first half of the book, A for the last so I guess that’s a B+!!

Post 2026 Additions

Soon after reading The Stranger You Seek I read book # 2 in the series The Stranger in the Room -. You can check out that post here

Recognition for Amanda Kyle Williams

Both The Stranger You Seek] and The Stranger in the Room have appeared on annual best-of lists. Publishers Weekly called The Stranger You Seek “an explosive, unpredictable, and psychologically complex thriller that turns crime fiction clichés inside out.” Her novels have been translated into nine languages.

In 1992 The Providence File was nominated for Best Mystery at the 4th Annual Lambda Literary Awards.[

In 2012 The Stranger You Seek was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize for Fiction.[ The following year, the book was shortlisted for the Private Eye Writers of America’s Shamus Award

Amanda Kyle Williams Book Series

Keye Street/Stranger series

  • The Stranger You Seek (2011)
  • Stranger in the Room (2012)
  • Don’t Talk to Strangers (2014)

Madison McGuire series

  • Club Twelve (1990)
  • The Providence File (1991)
  • A Singular Spy (1992)
  • The Spy in Question (1993)

Tragically Amanda Kyle Williams shortly after finishing Don’t Talk to Strangers in 2014 she was diagnosed with cancer. She passed away in 2018.

When I finished Stranger in the Room I had conversation with Amanda either on Facebook through a comment she left on my blog. I told her get on the stick and finish that third book – Her comment was short and sweet – Aye Aye Sir! I feel badly that I didn’t know she had died until a few years after she passed. When I went to look if she had written any new books.

Maybe it’s time to find those Madison McGuire books.

The Lewis Man by Peter May – another winner!

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The Black House

The Lewis Man is the second book in Peter May’s wonderful Lewis Trilogy and in the words of The Guardian it is…..

“As good as its predecessor…not only a good mystery, but also a moving and evocative portrayal of a place where the weather is matched only by the church’s harsh patronage….”

The place is the Isles of Lewis, from the book’s  prologue….

On this storm lashed island three hours off the northwest coast of Scotland, what little soil exists gives the people their food and their heat. It also takes their dead. And very occasionally, as today, gives one up.

The body that it gave up is that of a nineteen year old male found in a peat bog during the annual peat harvest. The body is a typical bog body, Bodies found in peat bogs are sometimes perfectly preserved, retaining their skin and internal organs due to the unusual conditions of the surrounding area.

These bodies sometimes are thousands of years old! In this case it is the body of a nineteen year old boy, who was brutally murdered. He stabbed several times and had hos throat slit! The Elvis tatoo on his forearm though squashed any theories that the body was centuries old. Since the bodies internal organs were intact DNA was used to help determine who the boy was. Matched against DNA of male islanders (samples had been collected and tested a year prior see The Blackhouse) a match was found – Tormod MacDonald. Tormod is the father of Marsaili, the childhood sweetheart of Fin MacLeod. MacLeod is a recently retired Edinburgh police detective who has returned to Lewis to restore his family croft and maybe some personal relationships.

Tormod suffers from dementia and lives in a hazy world of past and present. Soon Fin and Marsaili are on a quest to find out who the bog boy was and how and why he was murdered.

The story of the murdered boy is told through the haze of Tormod’s dementia, as Tormod tells a tale of two brothers, neither of whom  Marsaili or other Lewis residents have any knowledge of, and reveals long lost and buried secrets that change everything

Marsaili thought about her past and ancestry! Last week, my wife sent the Facebook challenge to me to list 10 books that have stayed with me, The Blackhouse should have been included on that list and now The Lewis Man should be among those books also!

As the quote at the beginning of this post says, the book is not only a good mystery that is not unraveled until the close of the book, but also a wonderful portrayal of the harsh lives of the MacDonalds, MacLeods, Murrays and other families who live in the harsh environment found on the Isle of Lewis.

Scotsman Peter May now lives and writes in France. I have read several of his China Thrillers that feature Beijing detective Li Yan and American forensic pathologist Margaret Campbell and they are also great reads.

I have yet to read any of the books in his other series The Enzo Files which feature a Scottish forensic scientist Enzo MacLeod, but I should!!

The Lewis Man has won…

  • the Prix des Lecteurs of Le Télégramme newspaper in France, a 10,000 Euro prize judged by readers of the newspaper
  • the Prix des Lecteurs 2012 at Les Ancres Noires Festival, Le Havre, France.
  • the 2012 Prix International at the Polar&Co Festival, Cognac, France.

and was shortlisted for…

  • the UK Crime Writers’ Association Dagger in the Library Award for 2012
  • the Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2012
  • the Theakston’s Old Peculier Crime novel of the Year 2013

So if you have never read a Peter May book grab a copy of  The Blackhouse, I do believe you will be moving quickly on to The Lewis Man!!  (Book 24 for 2014) (Grade 4.75 out of 5.0)

Missing You by Harlan Coben – Journeys into the Past are necessary and often painful!

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Missing YouWhen NYPD Detective Kat Donovan sends her ex-fiancée Jeff Raynes “Their Video” on the dating site  You are just my type.com and his response is “It’s Cute”, Kat doesn’t understand his response.

Eighteen years earlier, before he dumped her and left town, their love was real and magical. Sure his dating site biography says he is a widower, but should his response be that lame?

Well, he just wants to move on thinks Kat and so does Kat.  She has more important things to do too, her father’s murderer is dying and she needs to visit one more time before he dies.  When she does the hit man who killed her father, once again proclaims his innocence.

Soon the son of a woman who has gone from her Connecticut home visits Kat in hopes that she will help him find his mother. Why thinks Kat- because the man she ran away with is none other than Jeff Raynes!  So begins Kat’s quest in Harlan Coben‘s latest  Missing You!. Maybe I should say quests because Kat needs to know what happened on the night of her father’s murder, along with what happened to Dana Phelps, the missing Connecticut woman and Brandon’s mother along with the reason that Jeff ran out on her with no explanation.  None of the quests are free from potential pain to those involved!!

So once again Harlan Coben builds  great story around a simple action i.e. a friend signs you up for an on-line dating service and the first time you go in you find an old love. How will he or she react?  Is it better to leave the past behind??? This time throws a potential danger in getting carried away by an on-line dating service!! The book is Harlan Coben at his best and is one of the few books that I couldn’t put down this year!! When I found the book in the library I had a few days previously checked out two other books. I thought no I’ll just wait and read it later. Then I thought, no it’s Harlan Coben, it will go fast and it will be great! I was right on both counts.

This is book 19 for 2014 – if I can finish to more before the end of the month I’ll be averaging 3 books a month and that will be a great recovery considering the way that the year started!! It is also the 19th Harlan Coben book that is one my Goodreads bookshelf and they all are good reads!!!

Forgotten Books – Bill Granger -November Man

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Bill Granger -November Man

I have seNovember Man - Bill GRangeren other bloggers post about Forgotten Books and I’ve done Forgotten Music. So here is a post about forgotten books. I started keeping a book journal in 1987. I also recorded the date I read the book and some thoughts, Occasionally, I added ratings. ratings. Anyway,  going back through the early book, I came across a series that I really enjoyed the November Man series by Bill Granger. Looking back at March of 1988 and 1989 I read a November Man novel in each year. In 1988 it was the 8th book in the series The Infant of Prague, which I gave 3 stars and said it was better than the previous book I had read  Hemingway’s Notebook. The brief blurb I wrote says Devereaux tries to bring a defector from Czechoslovakia. My comments says the story kept moving and the ending was satisfying! Here is the synopsis at Amazon.

In March of 1989 I read Henry Magee is Not Dead. The synopsis says that Henry Magee is an agent who crossed over in Alaska and there is a complicated plan to ruin R Section (the secret organization that Devereaux heads), a bomb on the Alaskan pipeline and Devereaux and Denisov (Soviet spy defector) end up in Alaska.  There was something about that writing style that made for difficult reading at times but overall a good read! Amazon has a synopsis from Publisher’s Weekly that is a little bit (an understatement) better than mine here

You can see more about Bill Granger and his work at Fantastic Fiction

Final Thoughts

All I remember is that the books were some of the best spy novels I read. They were always exciting  and I loved the title character Devereaux.  These books set me on a course that led to authors like Brad Thor, Vince Flynn and Alex Berenson! If you ever see an old  copy at a library book sale or you online, pick it up. You won’t be disappointed.

Links for the Further Exploration of the Books of Bill Granger

Bill Granger Page

Amazon

AbeBooks

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Mystery Series – Authors and Characters

Here are the main series that I currently read or have read in the past and need to catch up on…….:

SeriesAuthor
John Wells,Alex Berenson
Maggie O’Dell NovelsAlex Kava
Erlendur SveinssonArnaldur Indriðason
November ManBill Granger
Nameless DetectiveBill Pronzini
Zack Chasteen SeriesBob Morris
Scot HarvathBrad Thor
Joe PickettC.J. Box
Kathleen MalloryCarol O’Connell
Dirk PittClive Cussler
Smoky BarretCody McFadyen
Gabriel AllonDaniel Silva
Kenzie & Gennaro,Dennis Lehane
CDonrad VoigtEthan Black
Harry GarnishFrank D. McConnell
Mongo FredericksonGeorge C. Chesbro
Myron BolitarHarlan Coben
Dave RobicheauxlJames Lee Burke
Sigma ForceJames Rollins
Tom KirkJames Twining
Stephanie PlumJanet Evanovich
Body FarmJefferson Bass
Inspector SejerKarin Fossum
Georgia/Grant County/AtlantaKarin Slaughter
Frank ClevengerKeith Ablow
Matt ScudderLawrence Block
Tess MonaghanLaura Lippman
Bernie RhodenbarrLawrence Block
Zack WalkerLinwood Barclay
Amos WalkerLoren D. Estleman
Lincoln PerryMichael Koryta
ShatterMichael Robotham
Stanley HastingsParnell Hall
Solomon Vs. LordPaul Levine
Jake LassiterPaul Levine
John DensonRichard Hoyt
Doc AdamsRick Boyer
Elvis ColeRobert Crais
Joe PikeRobert Crais
Bob Lee SwaggerStephen Hunter
Alex McKnightSteve Hamilton
Inspector RostnikovStuart M. Kaminsky
Jane Rizzoli & Maura IslesTess Gerritsen
Jim Chee and Joe LeaphornTony Hillerman
Mitch RappVince Flynn
Joshua CroftWalter Satterthwait
Brady CoyneWilliam G. Tapply
Cork O’ConnorWilliam Kent Krueger
Yellowthread StreetWilliam Marshall
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Hello and Welcome to Me, Myself, Music and Mysteries. Let me introduce myself …. well I’m not a man of wealth (unless you don’t mean material wealth) or taste (or a least that what my wife says about my musical listening  sometimes) but I am 63 years old and have been happily married for 39 years. We have with four great kids. I live in Riverside New Jersey and have been an avid reader and music listener for a long time! Most of the time I’m either reading mystery series or thrillers and often the thrillers are series, too. I read authors like Vince Flynn, Brad Thor and Alex Berenson. The music I listen to is usually Folk or Americana in nature, with a little Jazz, Blues, and New Age mixed in.  The purpose of this blog is to write about the books that I ‘m  reading and have read  and the music I listening to and have loved over the last 40 years! I used to write little blurbs to myself in journals, where I kept track of book titles and dates that I read the book,  but this seems like more fun and I hope that maybe someone will find a new author or new musician that they will enjoy or maybe not!