Before the books mentioned in the previous entry (which I finished about a week ago, in time to give to my niece 2 Sundays ago and return to school last Thursday) I read the 11th book in the Edge Chronicles series by Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell. The Nameless One: The First Book of Cade" is set in the Third Age of Flight, when people have settled ( Read more... )

The Stranger is Camilla Läckberg's 4th book (first published in English as The Gallow Birds) about Patrik Hedström, the policeman with the Tanumshede force and his wife Erica Falck. The latest case is a woman found dead in her crashed car. She appears to have lost control while under the influence of an extremely large amount of alcohol. However ( Read more... )

The Drowning, Camilla Läckberg's 6th book about Patrick Hedström, the Fjällbacka policeman, starts with the ongoing investigation of Magnus Kjellner's disappearance a few months earlier. For some reason, Patrick only now asks about who his friends were, and we are introduced to Christian Thydell and two other friends, Eric and Kenneth, who have ( Read more... )

S is for Silence, is the 19th book by Sue Grafton featuring Kinsey Milhone. I haven’t read many in this series so didn’t know this one is unusual until I read some reviews. Unlike the others there are sections, flashbacks to the past, which are written in the third-person. Kinsey takes on a case that her friend, Tannie, brings to her. Tannie’s ( Read more... )

After Locked Rooms which I've finished now, I read Hugh Howey's Shift. I've heard a bit about his trilogy but couldn't borrow the first one, Wool. Shift is described as the other perspective to what's presented in the first book so I didn't think it mattered that I read it first. Shift explains how what is left of humanity has ended up living in ( Read more... )

Camilla Läckberg's 5th book featuring featuring policeman Patrick Hedström and his writer wife Erica Falck is The Hidden Child. Patrick is on paternity leave, looking after his and Erica's daughter Maja. Hedstrom's wife Erica has discovered her mother's old wartime diaries in their attic, along with a Nazi medal and a blood stained baby shirt. ( Read more... )