pickSorry that I am continuing with my late book reviews but this a closure I must do, even if I finish it first week of January 2026. If I want to improve this task next year, I must complete it now, this one. I‘m a finisher in my races…so I will do in this task📚💪
July 2025 Book #1 second book in this first trilogy. Liked it not loved it. New family dynamics , more secrets are revealed and the story in general in so interesting⬇️
Life is giving me a right old drubbing right now. My attempt at a locked room mystery required more brain cells than I have available. But the first 30 minutes of this seem to be very listenable to, so I‘m giving Lin Anderson a go. We‘re on Orkney and in Glasgow. I‘m just hoping it doesn‘t get too graphic/grim. (If anyone‘s read her novels & could give me a gore rating, I‘d be grateful). For now tho‘: Tartan #Noir for #ChristmasCrimeChallenge
pickI'm this volume, we circle back around to Tracy Lawless and his commitment to Hyde. Hyde tasks him with using his brains instead of his brawn to find out who has been killing made men. Tracy isn't know for his brains, though, and in this town, everyone just stumbles through trying not to get killed. That doesn't work out for everyone.
pickSome of the finest crime/noir storytelling in comics. Brubaker is a master at this. He has various crime series, and I cannot find fault with any of them. Bastard makes it look easy!
He is leagues above in quality over any other comic writer attempting crime fiction. There is no contest. Follow this man‘s writing, and you will never be disappointed.
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panThus was referred to or recommended in something I read recently so I thought I‘d read it. I didn‘t like it at all. Obviously it‘s from a different generation, but the sexism, gaslighting, and just terrible stereotyping made it hard to read. Not that good of a detective novel in my opinion…I guesses early on who was behind things & had it right.
pickPacks quite a punch for such a short novel (115 pages). I really want to rewatch the movie now - the Fred MacMurray version. I've never seen the remake.
But can someone explain to me why the characters' names were changed for the movie? From Walter Huff to Walter Neff, and from Phyllis Nirdlinger to Phyllis Dietrichson. At least the first names weren't changed.
pickFinally have some time for reading & I‘m making up for a slow few weeks/months😬…Anyway, Byrd is back in Hawaii with another mystery to solve—this time two casino operators are fighting &, perhaps, sabotaging each other…unless someone else is actually to blame. Gotta love a hard-boiled detective mystery in a comic book set in Hawaii. The art is solid—not my fav—& the colors are fantastic. Story is appropriately convoluted with some good reveals.
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