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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25% complete! François has read 26 of 104 books.
"A bonding trip for Pendergast and his brother-in-law, Judson Esterhazy, turns violent. Before abandoning a mortally-wounded Pendergast, Esterhazy announces his …
While visiting his family plantation in New Orleans, Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast inadvertently uncovers evidence …
Again very nice plot. This time you need to read the next to know the end...
Some of Agatha Christie’s earliest stories – including her very first – which show the Queen of Crime in the …
While visiting his family plantation in New Orleans, Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast inadvertently uncovers evidence that his wife Helen's death …
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.
After celebrating their first anniversary, William Smithback, a reporter for The New York Times, and his wife Nora Kelly, a …
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 :-) )
FBI Special Agent Pendergast is taking a break from work to take Constance on a whirlwind Grand Tour, hoping to …
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...
An FBI agent, rotting away in a high-security prison for a murder he did not commit.
His brilliant, psychotic brother, …
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 :-)
Art critic Jeremy Grove is found dead, his face frozen in a mask of terror. His body temperature is grotesquely …
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.
Agent Pendergast visits Medicine Creek, Kansas after a gruesome murder occurs. With the help of local teenaged misfit Corrie Swanson, …
