75. Mortal Danger: Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 13
74. Any Bitter Thing – Monica Wood
73. The Dark Tide – Andrew Gross
72. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders – Vincent Bugliosi, Curt Gentry
71. Echoes from the Dead – Johan Theorin
70. Club Dead – Charlaine Harris
69. Living Dead in Dallas – Charlaine Harris
68. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World – Vicky Myron
67. Dead Until Dark – Charlaine Harris
66. The Double Bind – Chris Bohjalian
65. The Scandal of the Season – Sophie Gee
64. Hell Bent – William G. Tapply
63. Righteous Carnage: The List Murders in Westfield – Timothy B. Benford, James P. Johnson
62. Sleep No More – Greg Iles
61. The Devil’s Right-Hand Man – Stephen G. Michaud and Debbie M. Price
60. The sinner – Tess Gerritsen
59. The apprentice – Tess Gerritsen
58. The surgeon – Tess Gerritsen
57. The Boy Next Door – Gretchen Brinck
56. The Bone Garden – Tess Gerritsen
55. The Monster of Florence – Douglas Preston
54. White Fang – Jack London
53. The Call of the Wild – Jack London
52. A Descent Into Hell – Kathryn Casey
51. Whistling In the Dark – Lesley Kagen
50. Blue Diary – Alice Hoffman
49. Murder in the Adirondacks: An American Tragedy Revisited – Craig Brandon
48. Just One Look – Harlan Coben
47. A Northern Light – Jennifer Donnelly
46. The Winter Rose – Jennifer Donnelly
45. Island of Lost Girls – Jennifer McMahon
44. Promise Not to Tell – Jennifer McMahon
43. The Tea Rose – Jennifer Donnelly
42. Tell No One – Harlan Coben
41. Property – Valerie Martin
40. Too Late to Say Goodbye: A True Story of Murder and Betrayal – Ann Rule
39. Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 12
38. The First Cut – Peter Robinson
37. No Regrets: Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 11
36. Friend of the Devil – Inspector Banks #17 – Peter Robinson
35. Strange Affair – Inspector Banks #15 – Peter Robinson
34. Playing with Fire – Inspector Banks #14 – Peter Robinson
33. The Summer That Never Was – Inspector Banks #13 – Peter Robinson
32. An Unfinished Life – Mark Spragg
31. Aftermath – Inspector Banks #12 – Peter Robinson
30. Elephants Can Remember – Agatha Christie
29. Blood at the Root – Inspector Banks #9 – Peter Robinson
28. Innocent Graves – Inspector Banks #8 – Peter Robinson
27. Final Account – Inspector Banks #7 – Peter Robinson
26. Wednesday’s Child – Inspector Banks #6 – Peter Robinson
25. Past Reason Hated – Inspector Banks #5 – Peter Robinson
24. The Seduction of The Crimson Rose – Lauren Willig
23. The Hanging Valley – Inspector Banks #4 – Peter Robinson
22. A Necessary End – Inspector Banks #3 – Peter Robinson
21. A Dedicated Man – Inspector Banks #2 – Peter Robinson
20. Gallows View – Inspector Banks #1 – Peter Robinson
19. Cold is the Grave – Inspector Banks #11 – Peter Robinson
18. In a Dry Season – Inspector Banks #10 – Peter Robinson
17. Deal breaker – Harlan Coben
16. A certain slant of light – Laura Whitcomb
15. The woods – Harlan Coben
14. Suzanne’s diary for Nicholas – James Patterson
13. The Darkest Part of the Woods – Ramsey Campbell
12. Piece of my heart – Inspector Banks #16 – Peter Robinson
11. Rebel Angels – Libba Bray
10. Atonement – Ian McEwan
09. On Chesil Beach – Ian McEwan
08. Meridon – Philippa Gregory
07. The favored child – Philippa Gregory
06. Wideacre – Philippa Gregory
05. A Great and Terrible Beauty – Libba Bray
04. The Pact: A Love Story – Jodi Picoult
03. Vanishing Acts – Jodi Picoult
02. After You’d Gone – Maggie O’Farrell
01. Bliss: A Novel – O.Z. Livaneli
Comments Off on Books read in 2008
Review written: 25 December 2008
I like Ann Rule, I have a hard time writing reviews for True Crime, there is not much you can say about the story line, they are reporting what actually happened.
That being said, the author does have to pick a case that will be interesting and then has to write it in a way that holds your attention.
I feel Ann Rule does both of those things and does them well. She writes in such a way you can feel her compassion for the victims. She conveys the feelings the detectives have for cases. The only ones that you end up with no sympathy for are the bad guys!
Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. Here’s what I received:
Once again I received only one book and it wasn’t in the mail, I went to CVS on Christmas Day, I was so bored I had to leave the house, I told my family I was driving around to look at all the closed places. I discovered that there were a few places open: gas stations, Chinese restaurants, Starbucks (got my non-fat latte), Walgreens and CVS. I decided to get candy for Tigger, he was upset that I left him at home. As I was walking around, I saw this book, my one find for the week.
- Mortal Danger and other true cases: Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 13
I am a huge Ann Rule fan, I most of my true crime books are by Ann Rule. I have started branching out to other authors, but she remains my favorite. Anyway, I just had to have it and so I bought it.
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What books came into your house last week? Don’t forget to leave a link to your Mailbox post or a list of books if you don’t have a blog.
Anna at Diary of an Eccentric is giving away of copy of Kate Veitch’s Without A Backward Glance, check in there for a chance to win it and read her review and an interview with the author.
I got all my posts and the post comments. I am so happy, except for the fact that I lost all my followers, which I don’t understand since the name is the same.
So if you were following me previously, please click on the ‘follow this blog’ to the right of this post so you can follow me again. I could try to explain why I decided to make this change, but it a rather long and complicated line of reason, and one person I tried to explain it to got hopelessly confused. So we will just say I was bored and wanted something to do. LOL!
Happy reading and I will continue to read and post reviews here. 2009 will be here soon, that means I will be starting my challenges and a new list of books read. It looks to be a good year, reading wise at least.
Just want to let all my readers and followers know that I will be starting a new book blog, I will be exporting all the posts and comments and it will have the same name and address, but my account will be different. What this means is I think I will lose my followers and you will have to sign up again.
Thanks for your patience while I try to figure this out. I already did it with my personal and design blog the only one left is this one, this is the most complicated blog I do because of the reviews and challenges.
Synopsis
Lizzy Mitchell was raised from the age of two by her uncle, a Catholic priest. When she was nine, he was falsely accused of improprieties with her and dismissed from his church, and she was sent away to boarding school. Now thirty years old and in a failing marriage, she is nearly killed in a traffic accident. What she discovers when she sets out to find the truths surrounding the accident and about the accusations that led to her uncle’s death does more than change her life. With deft insight into the snares of the human heart, Monica Wood has written an intimate and emotionally expansive novel full of understanding and hope.
The novel starts with Lizzy’s accident, a hit and run, she mentions it is her memory. Then we go back in time to when she went to live with her uncle, Father Mike. The novel is written in the past, switching from Lizzy’s childhood and her recent memories after her accident. It also takes us back to Lizzy’s childhood to Father Mike’s point of view, but told in the third person. All this moving back and forth and from person to person may sound confusing, but it is done very skillfully and seamlessly, you are not really jumping around, just kind of flowing with the movement. As Lizzy moves toward the truth, there are some twists and surprises, one that I did not expect at all, yet it all seemed to fit. I enjoyed this book and recommend it.
Happy Monday!! Mailbox Monday is hosted by Marcia at The Printed Page. We share what books that we found in our mailboxes last week. Here’s what I received:
From an online used book seller I received the following 5 books:
- Sleepless in Montana by Cait London
- Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts
- Dead by Sunset by Ann Rule
- Everything She Ever Wanted by Ann Rule
- And Never Let Her Go: Thomas Capano: The Deadly Seducer by Ann Rule
And I got these three in a book trade with an online friend from Texas.
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart by Mary Higgins Clark
- We’ll Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark
- A Cry In The Night by Mary Higgins Clark
And then on Saturday I got some more from the same used book seller that I got the first five.
- Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind
- Dead Sleep by Greg Iles
- The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
- Open and Shut by David Rosenfelt
Front the inside flap: An explosion rips through New York City’s Grand Central Station one morning destroying the train Karen Friedman’s husband, a successful hedge fund manger is riding in to work.
As a regular commuter to New York City, someone who takes the train into Grand Station every day, I have to say, its not a station, its a terminal. Look it up on the website. That being said, (yeah I know, a little OCD of me) now for my review of the book.
On the front of this book is a quote “The Dark Tide takes off like a rocket and doesn’t slow down until the final, shocking twist.” –Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author of Power Play and Killer Instinct
I don’t exactly agree with this statement. I felt the beginning was kind of slow, even with the explosion and a hit and run, the possible connection between the two. I felt like I was a little bird being feed bread crumbs, following along a path, and then, OH LOOK! There are cookie crumbs on that other path. So I start down this path, then I look at the other path and I notice, hey those bread crumbs are from cinnamon toast, I love cinnamon toast! But then, there are chocolate cake crumbs on that third path over there!
That is The Dark Tide was to me a gradual increase in speed as I tried to gather all the information from each story line and then they all started to come together into a big pile of crumbs but I knew, I knew I just shouldn’t dive right in. Danger Will Robinson!
Also the final shocking twist wasn’t that much of a shock to me, from different clues in the book, I had a feeling about who one the major bad guys was and I was right. All in all I enjoyed this book, I felt it had a believable plot and good character development. I might even read another one if I can fit it into one of my challenges.
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