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Mysterious Book Report No. 23 – The Passage

By |2016-01-02T12:20:05+00:00January 2nd, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

   The Passage by Justin Cronin Ballantine, $27.00, 766 pages, ISBN 978-0-345-50496-8 The Passage is a scary, scary novel about the end of the world as we knew it.  A top secret government program goes terribly out of kilter, (so what’s new?) and the vampires they’ve been creating as a potential war weapon escape, wreaking havoc on the world . . . ending civilization about as quickly as you

Mysterious Book Report No. 22 – Galveston

By |2016-01-02T11:28:11+00:00January 2nd, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Galveston by Nic Pizzolatto Scribner, $15.00, 258 pages, ISBN 978-1-4391-6666-6 Tough guys . . . that’s the subject of this weeks MBR number twenty-two.  Now.  I realize when I wrote the preceding sentence, that every one of you readers out there remember a tough guy, or gal, know a tough person or two . . . heck, maybe you are a tough individual with the chops to prove it. 

Mysterious Book Report No. 21 – Ringer

By |2016-01-01T15:15:48+00:00January 1st, 2016|Mysterious Book Report|

Ringer by Brian M. Wiprud Minotaur, $26.99, 342 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-60189-8 In a small attempt to start things back toward normalcy, maybe even give a few of you a smile for a moment or two, the MBR  for this week is a book titled Ringer.  In it, protagonist Morty Martinez, a “gentleman of means and leisure” living in La Paz, Mexico, is given a quest to recover an ancient

Mysterious Book Report No. 20 – The Four Stages of Cruelty

By |2015-12-31T07:32:43+00:00December 31st, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

The Four Stages of Cruelty by Keith Hollihan Thomas Dunne, $25.99, 294 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-59247-9 This week’s MBR is The Four Stages of Cruelty it’s a first novel and, oh boy, it’s a prison book. You may have a job you love to hate; you might even work in a prison . . . but I’d bet none of you ever worked in a place like the fictional and

Mysterious Book Report No. 19 – A Bad Night’s Sleep

By |2015-12-29T22:51:54+00:00December 29th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

A Bad Night’s Sleep by Michael Wiley Minotaur, $24.99, 258 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-55224-4 This week’s MBR will be short and sweet.  It takes place in Chicago, sometimes called “America’s second city,” and features a private investigator, or PI, named Joe Kozmarski, a failed cop and known drunk.      A Bad Night’s Sleep is his third book in the Kozmarski series.  It’s a thrill ride from start to finish, as

Mysterious Book Report No. 18 – Now & Then

By |2015-12-29T22:30:42+00:00December 29th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

Now &Then by Robert B. Parker Putnam, 2007, $25.95, 296 pages, ISBN 978-0-399-15441-6 This week, I stuck my arm w-a-a-y down in the old book bag, and just like Jack Horner, pulled out a plum: an unread Spenser novel by Robert B.Parker titled, Now & Then.      The story begins when Spenser, Boston’s most well-known private investigator accepts a case from a man trying to find out if his

Mysterious Book Report No. 17 – London Boulevard

By |2015-12-28T19:36:55+00:00December 28th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

London Boulevard by Ken Bruen (Minotaur, 2009, $24.99, 250 pages, ISBN 978-0-312-56168-0) With all the hoo-hah, fubaring and gigantic jug-flinging coming from our nation’s capitol these days, as well as daily displays of incompetence and rooster-crowing by our elected representatives of every stripe . . . I just had to take a break from the news and current events.  So, paraphrasing John Prine, (one of my wife June’s favorite

Mysterious Book Report No. 16 – Robopocalypse

By |2015-12-27T11:36:55+00:00December 27th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

ROBOPOCALYPSE by Daniel H. Wilson (Doubleday, $25.00, 347 pages, ISBN 978-0-385-53385-0) Through the magic of literature, the MBR NO. 16 will jump from the long-ago, (MBR No. 15), to the not so-distant future, with a book called ROBOPOCALYPSE,  about a war between robots and humans.  It’s a thriller-diller of a novel I found near-impossible to put down.  Like the works of Stephen King, ROBOPOCALYPSE will thrill, entertain and scare

Mysterious Book Report No. 15 – The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

By |2015-12-27T10:36:57+00:00December 27th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe (Hyperion, $25.99, 362 pages, ISBN 978-1-4013-4090-2) In commemoration of old-fashioned cursive writing, this week’s Mysterious Book Report No. 15 will be about an old-fashioned witch hunt. The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane is about the search for a hand-written book of herbs, remedies and cures compiled during the colonial period by a healer named Deliverance Dane, who was later caught

Mysterious Book Report No. 14 – The Final Storm

By |2015-12-25T10:38:57+00:00December 25th, 2015|Mysterious Book Report|

The Final Storm by Jeff Shaara (Ballantine, $28.00, 480 pages, ISBN 978-0-345-49794-9) I don’t know about you, but I’m not a huge fan of some modern devices, cell phones being at the top of my personal (we hates them) list, so I’m slow to adopt a lot of the newest “must-have” gadgets and doo-dahs smart young folks are coming up with these days.  But, like automatic transmissions in cars,

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