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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11% complete! François has read 12 of 104 books.
When the body of a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the …
Interresting book - same people as in blackout, moving along the timeline. Slow pace, like often in the nordic roman noir but nice nonetheless.
When the body of a young woman is found dead beneath the cliffs of the deserted Icelandic village of Kálfshamarvík, …
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten …
Interesting, even if the pace is quite slow. Unfortunately no chance to solve it for the readeras much isn't disclosed until the end...
Interesting, even if the pace is quite slow. Unfortunately no chance to solve it for the readeras much isn't disclosed until the end...
On the shores of a tranquil fjord in Northern Iceland, a man is brutally beaten to death on a bright …
Good old Spenser :-) This one is not hilarious but it does the job.
At the beginning of 1952 (some 18 months after the parting of Marlowe and Linda …
Chandler is a safe pair of hands.
At the beginning of 1952 (some 18 months after the parting of Marlowe and Linda Loring in The Long Goodbye), …
Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man …
yet another strange book from Jim. It starts normal enough and plunges into a weird delirium. Not sure I like that style. It's probably the last book I read from him.
yet another strange book from Jim. It starts normal enough and plunges into a weird delirium. Not sure I like that style. It's probably the last book I read from him.
Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself …
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #1. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime …
Matt always does for a relaxing reading :-)
Matthew Scudder Crime Novel #1. "When Lawrence Block is in his Matthew Scudder mode, crime fiction can sidle up so …
What could make Nero Wolfe so determined to solve a crime that he would be …
No chance to Guess whodunnit:-(
What could make Nero Wolfe so determined to solve a crime that he would be willing to work entirely without …
He was 41 years old and as down-home polite as any man you'd want to …
surprising. Starts like a good gangster book, but finishes really weird. not saying any more :-)
