Library Hauls ~ #2

This week at the library I got...

Title: The Bat
Author: Jo Nesbo
Challenges: cloak and dagger, new author, library love

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.

Reasoning: 
I got this book because it is the first in the series following Harry Hole which is significant if you watched the move Snowman it was the latest book in this series. And I may or maynot have a little OCD and have to read books in order as much as possible. So I asked the librarians to track down the first in this series for me. They also ordered the second one so we will see if this becomes a series favorite. 

Title: In the Woods
Author: Tana French
Challenges: Cloak and Dagger, Library Love

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.

Reasoning: 
So, the one time my OCD wasn't bad is Tana French. I have read most of this series the Dublin Murder Squad and I did it out of order. Mainly because I was told that the books don't tie into each other but involve the other members barely. Since I enjoyed reading her so much I figured I should at least give her first in the series a go. So here we are.


Did you pick up anything good this week?