Mystery

206 Bones

1 Comment / 2010, Audiobooks, Books in Bed, Fiction, Mystery /

I like Kathy Reichs’ books on audio but we missed a few and in 206 Bones I found myself wishing I had read more about the Tempe and Ryan’s break-up. So, I reserved another book on audio, somewhere in between Break No Bones and 206 Bones so I could feel caught up.

Anyway, this one was good – typical Tempe adventures. Nice little side-trip to Chicagoland, which was fun in that “we live here” sort of way. Which is nice, since we don’t really like living here, ya know? 😉 And boy does Reichs like her similes.

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Homicide in Hardcover

2010, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Mystery, Women /

I read the second book in the Bibliophile Mystery series before I read the first. I hate it when that happens so I reserved the first one, Homicide in Hardcover, to get the back story. It was an ok book but the second one was much better, I think. (And how often does that happen?)

Fun chick-litty mystery series that involves food but only because Brooklyn really likes to eat. I’m looking forward to the next book.

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If Books Could Kill

2010, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Favorites, Fiction, Mystery /

I snagged If Books Could Kill for RJ – I am always on the lookout for something (anything) she might read that isn’t paranormal romance because lord, I’m sick of vampires and stuff – aren’t you? I have no idea if RJ read it – it’s been in her room for at least a month and it’s due back to the library in a few days (and can’t be renewed because… it’s already been renewed.)  I hope she read it because I laughed my ass off all of the way through it and I think she’d find it incredibly amusing. Even if there are no damn vampires.  Hell, I’m laughing again now just thinking about it. Seriously.

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Grace Hammer

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Mystery, Women /

I didn’t expect to get sucked into Grace Hammer the way that I did but I really could not put it down. Grace as a single mom who takes care of her family threw pick-pocketing (and teaching her sons to follow suit) is a great character. Her daughter Daisy is exactly what you’d expect. And the monster lurking in their lives isn’t Jack the Ripper, though he might just be lurking there too. Excellent tale.

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Gaudy Night

2010, Books in Bed, Classics, Favorites, Feminism, Fiction, Meme, Mystery, Women /

Again I’m thankful for Sassymonkey and the 1930’s mini challenge. I’ve read Dorothy Sayers in the past and wasn’t all that impressed – but Gaudy Night, once I dug into it – I was hooked. I think it’s that I don’t really love Peter Wimsy but I do love Harriet Vane.  The key to my Sayers pleasure may be to find books really heavy in female characters. Not that she writes men badly – she does not. I found myself wanting to read more about Padgett (I liked him much the way I liked Betteredge in The Moonstone.)

Nice job of twisting me around – I thought I knew who the villain was but towards the end I was really doubting myself. Nicely, nicely done.

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The Missing Ink

1 Comment / 2010, Books in Bed, Chick Lit, Favorites, Fiction, Mystery /

I saw The Missing Ink on a blog (I don’t remember which one) – and Sassymonkey mentioned it that same day. I put it on my library reserve list because, it’s tattoos! And while I don’t have any, my kids do. It seemed fun.

The book was waiting for me at the library one Saturday. A Saturday that TW and killed time during Prince J’s flute lesson by going to the local independent bookstore. The Missing Ink was on the shelf. I bought it. I thought it would be a great book to take on our trip to Florida – we could both read it and leave it behind for Michelle. I don’t think either of us ended up reading it on the trip, but we did leave it behind. Instead, we both read the library copy that I’d picked up. And we both enjoyed the book quite a bit.

Brett is a great tattoo shop owner. The people who work in her shop are interesting. Las Vegas is always interesting and the perfect place for Tattoo Shop mysteries to take place, don’t you think? There’s a great character, Sylvia – older woman with maybe a wee bit of dementia. She owned a competing shop before passing it along to her son. I love Sylvia. She needs her own series of books.

Looking for a beach read – try this one. It’s light and amusing. Don’t take my word for it… Sassymonkey liked it too.

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The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag

2010, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult /

Have I mentioned I love Flavia De Luce? The Weed that Strings the Hangman’s Bag might have actually been better than the first book. Flavia is funny. People take her a wee bit more seriously in this book than they did in the first one, which is as it should be. Loved the description of the puppet show, excellent writing.

Now, onto the “real” Readathon books… total pages read thus far, 152.

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The Monster in the Box

2 Comments / 2009, Books in Bed, Fiction, Mystery /

How is it possible that I’ve never read a Rendell book? She’s awfully prolific and it’s certainly the type of book I’d have found myself considering from the shelves.

The Monster in the Box was pretty good. I liked Inspector Wexford. I liked his wife and I liked his friends. I liked the bad guy though it was a very unsatisfying “ending” to that bad guy. Very unsatisfying. Do all of Rendell’s bad guys come to such an unsatisfying demise? I’ll have to check out another one and find out.

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The Shape of Snakes

1 Comment / 2009, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, From the Stacks Challenge, Mystery /

I am such a Minette Walters fan. I can’t help it, she’s just awesome. Being such a huge fan, I have no idea why we’ve owned The Shape of Snakes for years and I’ve never made the time to read it. Until now. (Yay me, one more crossed off of the From the Stacks Challenge.)

A typical Walters book, a crime (or several) – a mystery – characters you love and hate and are a wee bit afraid of (even when they’re the “good guys”) Twists and turns.

This one featured…. race relations… London… Tourette Syndrome.

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The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie

2009, Books in Bed, Favorites, Fiction, Mystery, Young Adult /

Flavia is my new favorite girl character! (Which leads me to the question, why isn’t this listed as a YA book?)

The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie appeared on my reserve list thanks to someone on the BlogHer Book Club Group. I can’t remember who exactly mentioned it but someone did. It sounded good, so I reserved it.

I didn’t expect it to be quite this good, particularly since it’s a British book and I’m not a huge fan of the British mystery. Flavia just rocks and her sisters are pretty fascinating as well.

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