Retired linguist/law/IT. Avid reader in all languages (see polyglot.city/@FrankauLux/ ), both paper and ebooks. Mostly fictions these days.
This link opens in a pop-up window
7% complete! François has read 8 of 104 books.
Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery. In 1876, in a remote mining camp called Roaring Fork in …
From the Preston & Child official website: "In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy …
Very short a nice (horror ?) story - quite aside from the regular Pendergast. Supposed to be chronologically 12.5 (!) in the Pendergast saga order. Very good and unexpected :-)
Very short a nice (horror ?) story - quite aside from the regular Pendergast. Supposed to be chronologically 12.5 (!) in the Pendergast saga order. Very good and unexpected :-)
From the Preston & Child official website: "In New Orleans' French Quarter, the Tooth Fairy isn't a benevolent sprite who …
Pendergast's bloodlust continues as he chases those responsible for the abduction of Helen, who was …
This is action packed. Loads of loose ends tied, and new courses for future books laid out. Quite interesting.
Pendergast's bloodlust continues as he chases those responsible for the abduction of Helen, who was revealed to have been alive …
"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.
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...
