The Year of the Locust
by Terry Hayes, 2024, Emily Bestler Books (an imprint of Simon & Schuster) My wife gave me this book for my birthday, and when I saw it I couldn’t wait to read it because I enjoyed his previous book, I … Continue reading →
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The Madness of Crowds
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 17 by Louise Penny, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2021 Macmillan Audio This book started out with an interesting theme: euthanasia. A person who claims to be a statistician has apparently … Continue reading →
All the Devils are Here
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 16 by Louise Penny, 2020, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2020 Macmillan Audio This book is very different as the whole Gamasche family is in Paris. Jean-Guy Beauvoir has accepted a job … Continue reading →
A Better Man
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 15 by Louise Penny, 2019, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2019 Macmillan Audio Inspector Gamasche, to everyone’s surprise, has accepted the position as head of the homicide division of the Sûreté du … Continue reading →
Trust
by Hernan Diaz, 2022, Penguin Publishing Group This book is about a reclusive Wall Street Mogul who amassed a huge fortune, even as he weathered the crash of 1929. He is reclusive but wishes to tell his story for posterity … Continue reading →
Kingdom of the Blind
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 14, by Louise Penny, 2018, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2018 Macmillan Audio As this book begins, Inspector Gamache is suspended from his position as Superintendent of the Sûreté du Québec, and … Continue reading →
The Sentence is Death (Book 2 of the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries)
by Anthony Horowitz, 2019, HarperCollins books This is the second book in the Detective Hawthorne series. The murder mystery unfolds very slowly this time. It’s about a man who is killed in his home beaten over the head and eventually … Continue reading →
Glass Houses
A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 13, by Louise Penny, 2017, Audiobook narrated by Robert Bathurst, released in 2017 Macmillan Audio This addition to Louise Penny’s Three Pines Series finds that Inspector Gamache is now Chief Superintendent of the Sûreté … Continue reading →
The Catcher Was a Spy: The Mysterious Life of Moe Berg
by Nicholas Dawidoff, 1995, 2011, Vintage Reprint Edition I really did not like this book! It was selected for our book club and the verdict was that it wasn’t written very well, but that they “all” liked the story. I … Continue reading →
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President
by Candice Millard, 2011, Vintage Candice Millard has done a very good job portraying the life and death of President James Garfield. I knew very little about Garfield and was very surprised to find out what an outstanding human being … Continue reading →