My daughter is super excited about the visit from Santa Claus tonight and the gifts that he is going to bring for her. Today morning she asked me what gifts I have asked Santa to bring for myself. I said, “Santa Claus brings gifts only for children.” Upon this, she exclaimed with the solemn assurance…
Africa – 4 Countries – 4 Books Africa has been a neglected continent as far as my reading is concerned. Except Alexander McCall Smith’s No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, I have not ventured out much in Africa. Therefore, this year I decided to read books set in different African countries. Botswana – Botswana is a…
2016 has been a slow year so far. I am woefully behind on my goodreads challenge and chances of catching up seem abysmally low. I have kept up with some of the series that I have been following over the years and have started with some great new series. Continuing with my practice of trying…
My Rating – 5/5 Summary – Detective Stephan Moran has an unusual visitor. Holly Mackey, daughter of another cop Frank Mackey seeks him with an intriguing piece of information. It leads Stephan to one-year-old murder of Chris Harper. Chris’s dead body was found on the grounds of St. Kilda, an exclusive boarding school for girls.…
I have been erratic again this year in posting my reviews, though this has been a good year for reading. Half way through the year, I am more or less on track so far for my goodreads reading challenge. Here is a brief roundup of the 28 books I have read so far. I continued…
My Rating –4/5 Summary – The sixth book in the Berlin Noir series is set in the flashback 1934. Kicked out from police force, Bernie is a house detective at Hotel Adlon. He gets mixed up with two of his hotel guests, an American gangster and a beautiful journalist. Events soon turn complicated and Bernie…
My Rating –3.5/5 Summary – When writer Owen Quine’s eccentric wife seeks Strike’s help to find her missing husband, it looks like Owen has taken off as usual, something that he is fond of doing. As Strike investigates, however it becomes clear that this time it may not be so simple. Strike finds Owen, long…
2014 has been a good reading year for me, though I have posted very sporadically. I completed my Goodreads challenge of reading 50 books this year, albeit with lot of huffing and puffing !! 🙂 .This trumped my last 2 years tally of 36 books each. Total pages read were more than 16000, an impressive…
It has been a long time since I posted and I was literally itching to put my fingers on keypad for last few days. Even though I did not write, I was quite busy reading some fantastic books over previous 3 months. In this post, I will briefly run through some of them. I brought…
My Rating –4.5/5 Summary – A woman is murdered in a decrepit hotel near ground zero. She has been robbed of her identity and with no way to find out who she is, detective Ben Bradley calls help of a man known as Pilgrim, a former intelligence officer, who is a ghost and does not…
My Rating –4/5 Summary – Settled in her new life in a remote southern Thai village, Jimm is always itching for action. When she finds a severed head washed ashore, Jimm swings into action. Battling apathy from system, she enlists help from her grandfather and her police friend Lt. Chompu. Blocked at every turn in…
My Rating –4/5 Summary – Vish Puri has entangled himself in a case of a missing young dalit boy who has made the fatal mistake of falling in love with daughter of Vishnu Mishra, a powerful goon from a higher caste. Add to this the shameless politics for votes constantly being played in Uttar Pradesh,…
My Rating –4.5/5 Summary – Fin Macleod is settled on island of Lewis. Working as security head of an estate, he is forced to confront his childhood friend Whistler for poaching. When Fin and Whistler discover a plane buried for 17 years the story takes a different turn. That plane belonged to their college friend…
My Rating –5/5 Summary – When a body is found mummified in a peat bog on the island of Lewis, Tormod MacDonald is prime suspect. DNA results show that deceased was related to Tormod. Tormod is in no position to defend himself due to his advanced dementia. Fin Macleod is mixed up in the case,…
My Rating –5/5 Summary – Detective Fin Macleod is mourning the loss of his only son. Trapped in an unhappy marriage and job, he is on the verge of giving up his job in police when his boss dispatches Fin to Isle of Lewis, his birthplace, to investigate murder of a man Macleod had known…
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