Four recent books I completed, one in progress
- From: "Stanley Moore" <smoore20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:11:18 -0500
Virgin Lies by Roger Anscombe is pretty interesting. About a forensic
psychiatriast who's an expert interrogator. Trying to find a missing girl he
uses his techniques to find info from a homeless woman who is delusional.
Then he steps overboard ethically by using questionable methods against the
suspects. I thought he behaved badly though he was able to maneuver things
to avoid the worst of his actions. I enjoyed the book anyway.
Revenge of Innocents by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg. I enjoyed this book about a
Carolyn Sullivan, a probation officer whose best friend is murdered. She
gets herself inserted into the police investigation. That investigation was
different from what is usual in books and I hope it doesn't reflect what
happens in real life. The cops sit around and trump up a case against one
person or another on virtually no evidence. They arrest and release three or
four guys before the bad guy finally commits suicide. I admit the sleuths
had it hard as the main character, a troubled high school girl, lies from
beginning to end and changes her story again and again. The protagonist has
a jewel of a fiance who sufferes through her travails. The guys puts up with
a lot, postponing their marriage, taking in the troubled girl, getting
robbed in the process, He is rich, handsome and completely understanding of
his woman. I thought he was pretty unrealistic. This book was about 50 pages
too long but I will try more by this writer.
I didn't like the first book by Charlaine Harris I read but The Julius House
was pretty entertaining. In this one Roe Teagarden gets a house where a
whole family disappeared 6 years previous and proceeds to solve the mystery.
A side plot is her husband to be is a secret gun runner to South America
which she has to cope with. I liked the story which was fairly intense for a
cozy. I shall try more Teagarden mysteries.
Chris Mooney's The Missing was an entertaining book for me. BUT it was
virtually the exact same plot as Kiss the Girls by James Patterson. I am
surprised he wasn't sued for plagiarism. Set in Boston, Darby McCormick, a
Crime Scene Investigator seeks missing woman. It was exciting but the
simiiarity to the other story dulled my interest in the book. The crime
harks back to an incident in her childhood when she and her schoolgirl
friends run across this same perpetrator who killed her friends and 25 years
later is still at it. It was fast paced and enjoyable with a very complex
plot, though the bad guy was easy to figure out. Mooney has three other
books an I shall try them.
Currently reading A Wicked Snow by Gregg Olsen. I read his other book and
found POV problems but this one is better done. Olsen is a true crime writer
and he gives over the middle of this book to a rehash of the true crime that
the book is based on. The story revolves around a terrible mutiple murder 20
years in the past when a victim is now an adult CSI investigating child
abusers when she gets a parcel containing shoes belonging to the 20 year
past murder victims (her brothers). I'm just over half way through this
book and am enjoying it a lot. Take care
--
Stanley L. Moore
"The belief in a supernatural
source of evil is not necessary;
men alone are quite capable
of every wickedness."
Joseph Conrad
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