Monday 20 July 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FORTY-ONE

Here we go again, another week and another tub of 50 from the room at the top!

Tub 41 - wake up, time to go!

Brad Smith x 2, Christopher J. Yates, Ruth Rendell, Mick Herron, 

Canadian crime

Liking the look of this one from 2014 I think

Canadian crime MK2


Chuck Palahniuk, Charlie McDowell, Gar Anthony Haywood, Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza x 2,

Crime down Brazil way

Ditto above

US favourite I've been neglecting too long

Enjoyed by my son - my turn now I've nicked it from him.

Linwood Barclay, Charlie Stella, Barbara Dowd, Lou Berney, Jess Walter,

Gutshot Straight rocked!

New York fave!

Non-fiction 

Rex Stout, Hilda Lawrence, Harlan Coben, William Sutcliffe, William Marshall,

40's book - but a more modern edition

Hong Kong crime!

Nero Wolfe - new-to-me!

Arthur Upfield, Helen MacInnes x 2, Martin Cruz Smith, Walter Walker,

Espionage!

Bonaparte down under!

A book title that positively doesn't trip off the tongue!

M.C. Beaton, Wallace Stroby, Harlan Coben x 2, Hugh C. Rae,

60's crime - Scottish author.

US crime!

Hamish Macbeth!

Patrick Quinlan, Greg Rucka, Louis L'amour x 2, Helen MacInnes,

Just call it MacInnes week!

Western - or crime with hats as Rich calls it!

Atticus Kodiak series book!

Harlan Coben, George Pelecanos, Aldous Huxley, Ferdinand von Schirach, Zoran Drvenkar,

German author enjoyed by my wife!

Big-time favourite author of mine!

Tess Gerritsen, John Godey, Mark Watson,

UK author who also does stand-up comedy!

I enjoyed the re-make - I still need to see the Walter Matthau version!

Marc Davis, Helen MacInnes, Carter Brown,

Carter Brown - prolific Aussie author!

US author!

Michael Connelly, J.J. Connolly, Nick Taussig,

UK film-maker author!

Layer Cake sequel!

Harry Bosch book I believe!

No cover - a stolen book? Don't think so - I'm sure it's just a paperback with a detached cover that will turn up!



Taggart - but not the Scottish detective!

Scottish espionage queen!


Tub 41 put to bed for now!
Highlights......Yates' book looks good, Jess Walter rarely disappoints, Michael Connelly ditto, Brad Smith - a Canadian author yet to be enjoyed, Lou Berney, Charlie Stella, Gar Anthony Haywood and George Pelecanos - all old favourites.

Stout, Upfield, MacInnes and Carter Brown can they live up to their lofty reputations?

Lowlights..... not a dud in sight!

FULL LIST OF 50...........

AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
BARCLAY LINWOOD TRUST YOUR EYES 2012
BEATON M. C. DEATH OF A GOSSIP 1985 HM1
BERNEY LOU WHIPLASH RIVER 2012 S2
BROWN CARTER BLONDE ON A BROOMSTICK 1972 RH14
COBEN HARLAN GONE FOR GOOD 2002
COBEN HARLAN THE INNOCENT 2004
COBEN HARLAN JUST ONE LOOK 2004
COBEN HARLAN MIRACLE CURE 1991
CONNELLY MICHAEL THE BLACK BOX 2012 HB18
CONNOLLY J. J. VIVA LA MADNESS 2011 LC2
DAVIS MARC DIRTY MONEY 1992
DOWD MAUREEN BUSHWORLD: ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK 2004
DRVENKAR ZORAN SORRY 2011
GARCIA-ROZA LUIZ ALFREDO ALONE IN THE CROWD 2009 IE7
GARCIA-ROZA LUIZ ALFREDO PURSUIT 2006 IE5
GERRITSEN TESS LAST TO DIE 2012 JR+MI10
GODEY JOHN THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 1972
HAYWOOD GAR ANTHONY ASSUME NOTHING 2011
HERRON MICK DEAD LIONS 2013
HUXLEY ALDOUS BRAVE NEW WORLD 1932
KETCHUM JACK OFF SEASON 1981 O1
L'AMOUR LOUIS TAGGART 1959
L'AMOUR LOUIS THE TALL STRANGER 1969
LAWRENCE HILDA BLOOD UPON THE SNOW 1944 ME1
MACINNES HELEN CLOAK OF DARKNESS 1982 RR3
MACINNES HELEN REST AND BE THANKFUL 1949
MACINNES HELEN DECISION AT DELPHI 1960
MACINNES HELEN THE DOUBLE IMAGE 1965
MARSHALL WILLIAM THIN AIR 1977 YS5
McDOWELL CHARLES DEAR GIRLS ABOVE ME 2013
PALAHNIUK CHUCK FIGHT CLUB 1996
PELECANOS GEORGE WHAT IT WAS 2012 DS+TQ4
QUINLAN PATRICK THE HIT 2009
RAE HUGH C. NIGHT PILLOW 1967
RENDELL RUTH PORTOBELLO 2008
RUCKA GREG PATRIOT ACTS 2007 AK6
SMITH BRAD ONE-EYED JACKS 2000
SMITH BRAD BUSTED FLUSH 2005
SMITH MARTIN CRUZ STALIN'S GHOST 2007 AR6
STELLA CHARLIE ROUGH RIDERS 2012 EW2
STOUT REX OVER MY DEAD BODY 1939 NW7
STROBY WALLACE THE BARBED-WIRE KISS 2003 HRM1
SUTCLIFFE WILLIAM ARE YOU EXPERIENCED ? 1997
TAUSSIG NICK THE DISTINGUISHED ASSASSIN 2013
UPFIELD ARTHUR DEATH OF A SWAGMAN 1946 IB9
VON SCHIRACH FERDINAND THE COLLINI CASE 2012
WALKER WALTER THE IMMEDIATE PROSPECT OF BEING HANGED 1989
WALTER JESS THE FINANCIAL LIVES OF THE POETS 2009
WATSON MARK THE KNOT 2012
YATES CHRISTOPHER J. BLACK CHALK 2013

18 comments:

  1. You've a fine lot there, Col! I really hope you'll enjoy Connelly's The Black Box and Upfield's Death of a Swagman. I thought both were fine reads. I see you've got Garcia-Roza and Cruz Smith, too - Great talent there. Yes, you're in for some good reads, I think.

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    1. I'm hoping the Connelly book is a good-un. And I'm looking forward to the Upfield book - you've mentioned him quite a bit on your blog in the past!

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  2. Col, I have the exact edition and title of OVER MY DEAD BODY by Rex Stout though I haven't read it. You can't go wrong with Louis L'Amour. It's always a joy to read his westerns. Helen Macinnes, I do want to read someday.

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    1. Stout, L'Amour and MacInnes will all be new authors for me when I eventually get to them.

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  3. Ah, another William Marshall. Good stuff. And Tracy will be pleased to see a Rex Stout in this week's tub. Regarding the Michael Connelly, there's a Harry Bosch mini-series on the Amazon streaming service. Are they available in the UK? We thought they were well done, very stylish.

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    1. Marshall will go on the intended reading list for 2016, I think. I'm waiting for Tracy to tell me whether the Stout I have is a good one or not - well it's the only one anyway!
      I think the Connelly-Bosch thing is available on some platform in the UK, though TBH I haven't investigated it. I'll look into it, now it has a stamp of approval on it!

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  4. Hope you enjoy the MacInnes books when you get to them. I'm planning to revisit her sometime soon -- I have fond memories of enjoying her work 'way back when.

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    1. Probably 2016 or the year after at current rate of progress, John!

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  5. Jess Walter - I loved the other book by him, which you put me onto, been meaning to try another. You need to review this one so I know if I should get it.

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    1. My wife gave up on this one after a couple of chapters, I'm more optimistic about it.

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  6. Of course the Rex Stout book is good. They are all good. Over My Dead Body is one of my favorites because it is different and fun; it involves Wolfe's past. I did not read them in order the first time I read them, so it doesn't matter about that, and this is a fairly early one.

    I want to read Dead Lions before the end of the year; and The Taking of Pelham 1, 2, 3 sometime. Lots of other interesting books here.

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    1. Thanks for the endorsement Tracy!

      Dead Lions and Mick Herron is someone I want to read. I think they are kind of series books, but I will try and read his books in the order they were published, I have most of them I think

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    2. Slow Horses has the same characters and precedes Dead Lions and I read it and enjoyed it. Based on the other book I read by him (the first in the Zoe Boehm series) I would like just about anything he writes.

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    3. He has another "Slough" book up on Net Galley at the minute - something Tigers (not that I'm supposed to be looking on there)!

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    4. Hmmm, interesting. I am sure I will want to get to that one someday too. I am also trying to stay away from NetGalley.

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    5. I expect you'll beat me to it either way!

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  7. I have that silver stripey MacInnes cover - gawd they used to print things with tiny writing Back Then. But it's a solid spy story with lurv interest but it is part of a small series in which the earlier ones, esp. the 2nd, The Hidden Target, are better.

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    1. I'm hoping to get to her next year. I have some new glasses - so hopefully the print won't trouble me too much!

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