Monday 7 December 2015

LOGGING THE LIBRARY - PART FIFTY-EIGHT

Another 50 from the library in the loft.......

Tub 58!

Robert Gott, Cormac McCarthy, Jess Walter, Matt Ruff, James Sallis,

Australian crime

Jo Nesbo, Jack Ludlow, Christopher Brookmyre, Giles Blunt, Matthew Dunn,

Philip Kerr, Michael Koryta, Chalres McCarry, S. J. Bolton, Evan Wright,

New-to-me US author

Hella Nation mostly chronicles different subcultures across America he encountered while working for Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair magazines. It also includes a chapter profiling soldiers in the 101st Airborne Division who Wright accompanied in the early days of the war in Afghanistan. All but one of the essays were previously published as magazine pieces, but the versions published in the book have been greatly expanded.

Richard Parker, David Downing, Craig Russell, Roger Smith, Danny King,

Cape Town crime




Danny King diary book!

Alan Furst, Jeremy Duns, Hans Koppel, Lee Child, Ted Conover,

Christopher Brookmyre, Tom Piccirilli, Helen MacInnes, David Downing, Gregory McDonald, 

Fletch series book!

A touch of espionage,

New York prison guard's memoirs! 

Alan Furst espionage.

Malachy McCourt, Steven Hall, Patrick Gale, Erin Morgenstern, Nicolai Lilin, 


Eastern european criminality

Lisa Gardner, Nick Gaitano, Joe R. Lansdale, James W. Hall, Gregory McDonald,

Vince Flynn thriller!

Eugene Izzi - Chicago favourite of mine! I'm still sad he's gone - a mystery in itself - see here

Colin Harrison

Can't beat a bit of Fletch!

Erica Spindler, Dallas Murphy, Herbert Lieberman, Vince Flynn, Peter Robinson,

Inspector Banks series book!

HIGHLIGHTS....... Nick Gataino, Eugene Izzi - well they're one and the same, Robert Gott, Alan Furst, Herbert Lieberman, Roger Smith, Tom Piccirilli,  

LOWLIGHTS....... nothing especially scary, Erica Spindler probably not rushing towards it, more my wife than me.

FULL LIST OF 50 AS FOLLOWS:


AUTHOR TITLE YEAR SERIES
BLUNT GILES BLACK FLY SEASON 2005 JC3
BOLTON S. J. AWAKENING 2009
BROOKMYRE CHRISTOPHER A SNOWBALL IN HELL 2008 ADX3
BROOKMYRE CHRISTOPHER WHERE THE BODIES ARE BURIED 2011 JS1
CHILD LEE THE AFFAIR 2011 JR16
CONOVER TED NEWJACK 2000
DEMILLE NELSON NIGHT FALL 2004 JC3
DOWNING DAVID POTSDAM STATION 2010 JR4
DOWNING DAVID ZOO STATION 2007 JR1
DUNN MATTHEW THE SPYCATCHER 2011 S1
DUNS JEREMY THE MOSCOW OPTION 2012 PD3
FLYNN VINCE PROTECT & DEFEND 2007 MR10
FLYNN VINCE ACT OF TREASON 2006 MR9
FURST ALAN NIGHT SOLDIERS 1988 NS1
GAITANO NICK MR X 1995 JP1
GALE PATRICK A PERFECTLY GOOD MAN 2012
GARDNER LISA THE KILLING HOUR 2003 Q+R4
GOTT ROBERT THE HOLIDAY MURDERS 2013
HALL STEVEN THE RAW SHARK TEXTS 2005
HALL JAMES W. MAGIC CITY 2007 TPI9
HARRISON COLIN AFTERBURN 1999
IZZI EUGENE THE PRIME ROLL 1990
KERR PHILIP PRAGUE FATALE 2011 BG8
KING DANNY THE PORNOGRAPHER DIARIES 2004 CD4
KOPPEL HANS SHE'S NEVER COMING BACK 2011
KORYTA MICHAEL TONIGHT I SAID GOODBYE 2004 LP1
LANSDALE JOE R. THE DRIVE-IN 1988 DI1
LIEBERMAN HERBERT BRILLIANT KIDS 1975
LILIN NICOLAI SIBERIAN EDUCATION 2011
LUDLOW JACK A BITTER FIELD 2012 RTW3
MACINNES HELEN RIDE A PALE HORSE 1984
McCARRY CHARLES THE LAST SUPPER 1983 PC4
McCARTHY CORMAC BLOOD MERIDIAN 1985
McCOURT MALACHY A MONK SWIMMING 1998
McDONALD GREGORY FLETCH TOO 1986 F9
McDONALD GREGORY FLETCH WON 1985 F8
McDONALD GREGORY FLETCH AND THE WIDOW BRADLEY 1981 F4
MORGENSTERN ERIN THE NIGHT CIRCUS 2011
MURPHY DALLAS DON'T EXPLAIN 1996 ADM3
NESBO JO THE SNOWMAN 2010 HH7
PARKER RICHARD SCARE ME 2013
PICCIRILLI TOM THE LAST WHISPER IN THE DARK 2013 LKW2
ROBINSON PETER A NECESSARY END 1989 IB3
RUFF MATT BAD MONKEYS 2007
RUSSELL CRAIG THE LONG GLASGOW KISS 2010 L2
SALLIS JAMES THE KILLER IS DYING 2011
SMITH ROGER WAKE UP DEAD 2010 CT2
SPINDLER ERICA CAUSE FOR ALARM 1999
WALTER JESS WE LIVE IN WATER 2013
WRIGHT EVAN HELLA NATION 2009

12 comments:

  1. Ah, you have some good ones, Col. The Robinson was, I thought, very good. And the Gott, too. I see some Brookmyre, too. And several other good 'uns. You're in for some good reading, in my opinion.

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    1. I recall a buzz about the GOTT book a year or two ago, so I'm looking forward to this one. Plus I really need to try a few from Peter Robinson as well, I've read very few so far

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  2. Barring two or three names, this tub looks like it's from another publishing world. I want to read something by Tom Piccirilli who, sadly, passed away a few months ago. I believe, he was a highly gifted writer.

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    1. Prashant, yes I heard he had passed earlier this year. He was one of those authors - similar to Joe R. Lansdale - who could write well across genres. I have a few of his crime fiction books to get to.

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  3. Alan Furst is a good writer. Just finished SPIES OF THE BALKANS – the first of his books I have tried. Don’t know why it took me so long to catch up with him.

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    1. Elgin, I've read a couple from him now and enjoyed them both. I do have a few of his to catch up on.

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  4. I'm still loving your cataloging binge. The covers!!

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    1. Mary - happy to hear it. Only another 32 or 33 to go!

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  5. Not much there for me, but enjoy reading them... (around 2020?)

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  6. You know how I feel about Charles McCarry. Although you need to read them in order. I haven't read his two newest ones yet.

    I liked The Holiday Murders. Not the least bit cozy. I haven't read enough Furst.

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    1. I really do need to start focusing on some of the existing books I own - otherwise what was the point in buying them? McCarry is one of the authors I need to stop ignoring.

      Gott has a new one out I think, but I'll avoid for now!

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