Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
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After celebrating their first anniversary, William Smithback, a reporter for The New York Times, and …
Still going strong. Very nice twists and turns and an unexpected ending. Recommended. It doesn't matter if you haven't read any of the previous.
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a …
Excellent. Pendergast is apparently getting better in each episode. Can hardly wait for the next one. (You need to accept a certain number of things, of course, like all fictionnal world :-) )
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not …
The story has come full circle and ends (almosts) as it started. All will be revealed...
Two brothers. One, top FBI Agent, Aloysius Pendergast. The other, Diogenes, a brilliant and twisted …
The tempo is still beating the way it should be. Again a lot of previous caracters and places cross their way in the book, which is left unfinished - no other possibility than to read the next one :-)
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. …
Very good. The series is getting nice. Still some shortcuts, but enjoyable. Loads of cross-references as well, so it does help to have read the previous episodes, even if it is not strictly necessary. Bit of a cliffhanger this one :-)
Agent Pendergast visits Medicine Creek, Kansas after a gruesome murder occurs. With the help of …
Finally, Pendergast as it should be :-) Glad to report my fears after the previous installments of the series were not founded. It is now going in a much better direction.
In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are …
Mmmm. Third book in the saga, my comment to the previous still stand: quite verbose, a bit too much for my taste. Also some recurring gimmicks are starting to appear. This is most unfortunate, because the twists and turns I like so much are still there. I'll try the next one in the saga. See if the trend is confirmed. Still worth reading tho.
Nice. Still a bit verbose - too many flashback to previous book for my taste, but nice twists and turns.
A bit verbose for my taste, but nice mystery... Now on to volume two to see the end of the story...
As expected - many twists and turns. Again, if you like mysteries / thrillers, this is for you. Available on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71073. Enjoy !
As usual, most excellent S. King. Almost missed my plane with that one. Was so deep in the book I forgot where I was. A dozen of short stories, some very short, some longer. Most excellent, but then I'm probably biased. definitely recommended
Inspector French # 4
Off the coast of Burry Port in south Wales, two fishermen …
Again, most excellent mystery with twist and turns. Also available from Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72771 Recommended !!!
> In a country hotel Maxwell Cheyne sits down to lunch with the pleasant stranger …
Quite different from the previous one, but stil a mystery wrapped in a riddle inside of a puzzle. Also recommended, also available on Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72986
> THE FIRST INSPECTOR FRENCH MYSTERY
>At the offices of the Hatton Garden diamond merchant …
This is a real discovery !!! I found the epub on an old ereader that I received. Never heard about the author, but I like whodunnit and mystery cases, so I thought I might as well go ahead and read it. Fascinating. Really well done, with twists and plot turns all over. Obviously old (five and twenty, really ? :-), but still good. You can find it here: gutenberg.org/ebooks/65553 and I found 3 more by the same author, which I'm downloading as I speak. Recommended.
Doctor Ponnonner invites the narrator to his home to take part in a mummy unwrapping. …
Very funny (and short) not usual Poe but nice