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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On the evening of November 24, 1971, D. B. Cooper hijacked Flight 305—Portland to Seattle—with a fake bomb, collected a …
Dozens of identical blue shoes are found in the ocean off the southwestern coast of …
Probably one of the craziest story (so far). Can't but wonder what next ???
Dozens of identical blue shoes are found in the ocean off the southwestern coast of Florida, all with a severed …
Bertin passed away at the age of 81.
Accompanied by Constance Greene, his protege, Pendergast …
This a very very short story. I don't really understand it is a book by itself, to me it could have been the first chapter of the next book or the last of the previous. anyway. If you don't read it, you're not missing much.
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. …
Quite interresting and changing a bit the usual direction of Pendergast. Usual twist and truns still there - nice
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes …
Tempted to say that is is more like a "classic" whodunnit. Not so much into the great big story of Pendergast. Usual twists and turns garanteed - nice and easy reading.
After an overhaul of leadership at the FBI's New York field office, A. X. L. Pendergast is abruptly forced to …
When Grace Ozmian, the beautiful and reckless daughter of a wealthy tech billionaire, first goes missing, the NYPD assumes she …
After the apparent death of Agent Pendergast in the previous novel, Constance Greene has returned …
More twists. I realize I'm kind of repeating myself, but i's difficult to say something without spoiling. The style has evolced a lot since the beginning. Gone is the verbous and pompous prose, for an action-packed writing instead. Sometimes too action-packed maybe ? Some of the shortcuts are very elliptic, but hey :-)
After the apparent death of Agent Pendergast in the previous novel, Constance Greene has returned to Riverside Drive, but Diogenes …
A secret chamber.
A mysterious shipwreck.
A murder in the desolate salt marshes.
A seemingly …
As usual, very imaginative (if sometimes hard to believe) :-) By now I'm kinda hooked to the saga, so...
A secret chamber.
A mysterious shipwreck.
A murder in the desolate salt marshes.
A seemingly straightforward private case turns out …
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up …
Pressure is mounting. Curiouser and curiouser, or should I say crazier and crazier ?
"A long-buried family secret resurfaces when one of Aloysius Pendergast's most implacable enemies shows up on his doorstep as a …
Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery. In 1876, in a remote mining …
A bit predictable, but still nice reading. Managed a couple of twists, as usual, as well as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes !
