Book Reviews and a Little More…
Book #87 was The Mysterious Affair at Styles, the first Hercule Poirot novel by Agatha Christie. Another book that I can’t really review because really? What can you say about a master like Christie? I think what I like best about Poirot is not just that so much of what he detects is based on observation, but that he has a real soft spot for
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Book #83 was The Eighth Commandment, by Lawrence Sanders. This book was not at all what I expected. I’ve never read Lawrence Sanders, and based on the little bit that was on the back of the book I was expecting a more serious whodunit. What I got instead was funny and lighthearted and, most surprising, featured an interesting and endearing female lead character. I hope
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Book #49 was All That Remains, the 3rd book in Patricia Cornwell’s Kay Scarpetta series. It’s interesting to read these early books in the series after reading a lot of the later ones. Fills in the blanks on some of the back story. Overall, this one was pretty good, though there was some stuff jumped over in the end, like Cornwell didn’t want to go
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Book #47 was Into Thin Air, by Stan Washburn. This was one of the paperbacks I inherited from my dad, who inherited it from my aunt. I hadn’t read anything by this author before, but I’m always up for new mysteries. It was pretty good. Not so good that I plan to add any of his other books to my already too-long list, but good
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