Dan Petrosini
The subject of Physics causes brain freeze in most people, including me. However, this book is accessible! (Though at times a bit deep) It will open you up to thoughts you normally wouldn't think about. It is an amazing world we live in and this book helps to understand it.
Didn't know what to expect after the opening jolt vis a vis the narrator. Flynn is an excellent story teller and she built the story heading in one direction and then had a surprise finish. Quick read.
A good début for sure. Interesting, if at times, over done characters and nice setting detail. Enjoyed the read and was anxious to find out what would happen.
Interesting if different type of book. It explores intelligence, emotion, seriousness, purpose and coming of age. May not be everyone
Started good but bogged down terminally. Rankin is great but this one I just didn't like. Excellent character development as usual!
A detailed account of the tasting that put Napa Valley on the map. The author provided lengthy and interesting background on the winery founders and winemakers on both sides of the ‘pond'. He also points out that this breakthrough event also provided the springboard of legitimacy for other producing areas, New Zealand, So Africa, Australia, Spain etc. A downside to the book is it has not been updated (unless I've missed a new edition)
Good fictionalization of an amazing story. Set mainly in Paris, the author reveals a startling story of the framing of Dreyfus and the staunch defense those who perpetuated the travesty. Its yet more proof of how institutions, in this case the French Army, circle the wagons to defend themselves.
The Hanging Girl is the latest in the Department Q series by Denmark's best selling author, Jussi Adler-Olsen. The story opens with Detective Carl Morck and his two assistants being asked to investigate a twenty year old death. The petitioner, a policeman as well, had obsessed over the case for 20 years, unable to prove that the official hit and run determination was wrong. Plates already full, lead detective Morck, declines to take up the old case.
However, a reversal takes place when the petitioner kills himself at his own retirement party and they are drawn into the case. Morck is reluctant but his assistants are intrigued as they take the case over.
The trio investigate and follow leads all over Bornholm Island as Adler-Olsen separately introduces an esoteric group of higher conscious seekers. The group is lead by a charismatic man who runs an enlightenment center for money with the added benefit of providing him with a steady diet of woman. The reader begins to assume that a jealous follower, who eliminates her romantic competition, may be the murderer of the beautiful girl found hanging but the author deploys several twists before the killer is revealed.
The setting for the Hanging Girl is accomplished in a skillful way, as Bornholm Island, seemingly an idyllic island which tourist's overrun, is instead, revealed through encounters, to be a cold distant place whose inhabitants wear chips on their shoulders and are frankly a bit weird.
Carl, Rose and Assad are believable law enforcement partners whose interactions serve to strengthen their characters. Their relationships are well formed and represent the reality of professionals who must work together despite their differences.
Despite the craft exhibited at times, I didn't enjoy the read as I felt it was terminally slow moving and went on for far too long. It was too wordy and some of the dialogue was unbelievable and immature for such an accomplished author.
Dan Petrosini, Author
Latest release - Am I the Killer?
Good read and a new series to follow for police procedural fans that also comes with a thriller component!
Just finished a quick read - The Tumor by John Grisham Not much of a story as its main purpose is to raise awareness of the deadliness of a brain tumor. The book pushes for new less invasive treatments that the Federal Gov, and some in medical community are impeding
Not a typical Elmore Leonard novel but still appreciate the way he outlines characters and develops them. He is unquestionably a master at dialogue.
Ending a bit unresolved...
Excellent read! I enjoyed the read and appreciated the character development. This was a ‘whodunit' with a twist! Usually able to figure it out, the author did a great job keeping me off balance and surprising me at the end.
A bit of a look inside Italy's legal set up was nice. Thew Dogs of Rome was a decent read but the pace was too slow for me. I felt there was too much information and descriptive data for my taste that bogged the read down. Fitzgerald did a nice job with the twists and turns though!
Had a difficult time writing this book. Though I've written about 30 novels, the imposter syndrome kicked in. It turned out to be much better than expected and everyone involved thinks it may be the best book I've penned
This Luca Mystery took longer to write but I'm really pleased with how it turned out. It's probably the best in the 15 book series, but readers will decide that.
This story tackles an important subject and raises awareness of a crisis in our communities. I enjoyed the way the story was personalized with his mother in a rehab/nursing home. There are some caregivers in the story who are wonderful and unfortunately many who are not. My family has experienced many disappointments in this area but whether or not you have personal experience, you should read it.
It is a thought provoking read that I hope will spur change. If not with all the baby boomers ageing, God help us!
Many times prequels feel like they have been created in a rushed or forced way but Jacqueline's tragedy is authentic. The author, who is a surgeon, thankfully deals with the medical information in a clear, layman way. The protagonist, a surgeon himself, is leading an enviable life when a life altering event shatters things. Is his quest to find out who was responsible driven by revenge or a desire for justice?
Alex Delaware and Milo Sturgis are back in Motive,Jonathan Kellerman's latest in the Delaware series.
This new story opens with Milo stymied over a murder investigation that's run straight into a wall. While commiserating with Delaware over the unsolved death a
woman is found shot to death in a parking lot.
The pair check out the scene of the puzzling death but clues are in short supply. Sturgis and Delaware investigate, pursuing their mutual suspicions but the new case also goes cold, frustrating the pair.
Ready to move on despite their frustration, a weird piece of evidence surfaces in the second corpse's home, seeming to link the two cold cases. As they pursue leads the dead bodies continue to pile up and the connections between the stiff's leads the pair of investigators to pursue a serial killer. They focus on a couple of suspects with Delaware making logical, psychopathic explanations that make a case against each suspect.
When one of their main suspects ends up dead, Delaware and Sturgis fiquire out who the serial killer was and how he was related to the others.
Motive is set mainly in Los Angeles proper and the setting is sometimes brought to life, such as the hills of LA and wierd CD store but but other times it is just a backdrop. The clever plot unfolds as strings of evidence pointing each suspect are made, broken, re-weaved and strengthened, leaving the reader to bounce from target to target for the perpetrator. As readers of the Delaware series are aware, Kellerman reinforces a reader's guessing game with the banter between Alex and Milo. Its moves the story along and misdirects the reader with their plausible rationalizations of scenarios.
Kellerman really knows how to develop a line of questions to probe into a crime and his dialogue is simply stellar in Motive.
I liked the way Kellerman uses his skillful character development to demonizing a suspect for a period and then yanks them back to being sympathetic.
What I find distracting is the over describing of persons and places that do not add to or move the story. I did enjoy the read it was fast paced and entertaining.
Captured immediately by the book's premise, i slowly lost interest. much too meandering and useless back story. It also completely lost any semblance of reality and though i struggled to get to the end, i gave up at 85%.