Showing posts with label Library Loot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Library Loot. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 8, 2020

W.W.W. ~ 11



The Three Ws are:
What are you currently reading?
What did you recently finish reading?
What do you think you’ll read next?


What are you currently reading?
I am currently reading a library haul

Title: The Bat 
Author: Jo Nesbo

Summary: 
Inspector Harry Hole of the Oslo Crime Squad is dispatched to Sydney to observe a murder case. Harry is free to offer assistance, but he has firm instructions to stay out of trouble. The victim is a twenty-three year old Norwegian woman who is a minor celebrity back home. Never one to sit on the sidelines, Harry befriends one of the lead detectives, and one of the witnesses, as he is drawn deeper into the case. Together, they discover that this is only the latest in a string of unsolved murders, and the pattern points toward a psychopath working his way across the country. As they circle closer and closer to the killer, Harry begins to fear that no one is safe, least of all those investigating the case



What did you recently finish reading?

I just finished up a library book 

Title: The Hypnotist
Author: Lars Kepler

Summary: 
In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes.

It’s the sort of work that Bark has sworn he would never do again—ethically dubious and psychically scarring. When he breaks his promise and hypnotizes the victim, a long and terrifying chain of events begins to unfurl.

What do you think you’ll read next?

I managed to pick up another book at the library that I am dying to get my hands on

Title: In the Woods
Author: Tanna French

Summary: 
As dusk approaches a small Dublin suburb in the summer of 1984, mothers begin to call their children home. But on this warm evening, three children do not return from the dark and silent woods. When the police arrive, they find only one of the children gripping a tree trunk in terror, wearing blood-filled sneakers, and unable to recall a single detail of the previous hours.

Twenty years later, the found boy, Rob Ryan, is a detective on the Dublin Murder Squad and keeps his past a secret. But when a twelve-year-old girl is found murdered in the same woods, he and Detective Cassie Maddox—his partner and closest friend—find themselves investigating a case chillingly similar to the previous unsolved mystery. Now, with only snippets of long-buried memories to guide him, Ryan has the chance to uncover both the mystery of the case before him and that of his own shadowy past.

Sunday, January 5, 2020

Library Haul week 1



So I got some interesting reads this week and I thought I would share them with you:

First off is

Title: In the Shadow of Gotham by Stefanie Pintoff - I got this to help with 2 challenges, Library Love and Cloak and Dagger. I have finished it and a review will be up on Tuesday!

Summary

Dobson, New York, 1905.

Detective Simon Ziele lost his fiancĂ©e in the General Slocum ferry disaster—a thousand perished on that summer day in 1904 when an onboard fire burned the boat down in the waters of the East River. Still reeling from the tragedy, Ziele transferred to a police department north of New York, to escape the city and all the memories it conjured.

But only a few months into his new life in a quiet country town, he’s faced with the most shocking homicide of his career to date: Young Sarah Wingate has been brutally murdered in her own bedroom in the middle of an otherwise calm and quiet winter afternoon. After just one day of investigation, Simon’s contacted by Columbia University’s noted criminologist Alistair Sinclair, who offers a startling claim about one of his patients, Michael Fromley—that the facts of the murder bear an uncanny resemblance to Fromley’s deranged mutterings.

But what would have led Fromley, with his history of violent behavior and brutal fantasies, to seek out Sarah, a notable mathematics student and a proper young lady who has little in common with his previous targets? Is Fromley really a murderer, or is someone mimicking him?

This is what Simon Ziele must find out, with the help of the brilliant but self-interested Alistair Sinclair—before the killer strikes again.


I also picked up this one

Title: the Hypnotist by Lars Kepler

Again I got it for the same reason as above and couldn't wait to read it on vacation. I am still currently reading it as it is 503 pages. I am hoping to be done by next week to post on the following Tuesday my review. 

Summary: 
Prepare for The Hypnotist to cast its spell

In the frigid clime of Tumba, Sweden, a gruesome triple homicide attracts the interest of Detective Inspector Joona Linna, who demands to investigate the murders. The killer is still at large, and there’s only one surviving witness—the boy whose family was killed before his eyes. Whoever committed the crimes wanted this boy to die: he’s suffered more than one hundred knife wounds and lapsed into a state of shock. Desperate for information, Linna sees only one option: hypnotism. He enlists Dr. Erik Maria Bark to mesmerize the boy, hoping to discover the killer through his eyes.

It’s the sort of work that Bark has sworn he would never do again—ethically dubious and psychically scarring. When he breaks his promise and hypnotizes the victim, a long and terrifying chain of events begins to unfurl.


Once these are returned I will pick up another one... Do you have any suggestions? 

Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Library Loot for the Holidays!


Yep that's right 13 books all YA except one LOL. So over the 4 day break (times 2 Christmas and New Years) I have 13 books to read... From top to bottom

Starship Academy by Nick James
Shadowcry by Jenna Burtenshaw
The Kiss of Deception by Mary E Pearson
The Dance of Connection by Dr. Harriet Learner
Split Second by Kasie West (squeal to Pivot Point one of my top 5 of 2014)
Crusade by Nancy Holder & Debbie Viguie
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Scored by Lauren McLaughlin
Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier
The Space Between by Brenna Yovanoff
The Death Catchers by Jennifer Anne Kogler
Dearly Departed by Lia Habel
Archon by Sabrina Benulis

I am seriously doubting I will get them all read by the end of the year but it will be a great start to the new one. Are there any books you are looking forward to reading over break or next year?