If you have read an Iles book I guarantee you will not have read anything quite like it before. He must spend a great deal of time trying to come up with the most off the wall original idea possible. I don't want to suggest that he's syfy either, because he's not.
Mortal Fear starts with a savy investor, Harper Cole, living in an isolated town working on a computer system that is a "sexual release" online system for the elite called EROS. Cole notices that women clients of EROS are disappearing and calls in the FBI to notify them.
Cole's best friend is also associated with EROS. The FBI want to know if Cole or his friend are involved in the killings. The killings are the strangest part. Each death is different and doesn't fit a profile. Each death is gruesome.
While the FBI is investigating Cole, his wife is discovering other secrets that Cole has been keeping from her.
This book really gets intense at times and I couldn't wait to find out what happens next just to find out that something else is going to happen. It a very interesting and orignal book.
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Monday Morning by Kathy Reichs
Reading or listening to a Kathy Reichs book for me is like coming home. It's comfortable. I now know the characters and their rythmns and I like them. I like J.D. Robb's books for the same reason. I know what to expect so I just enjoy relaxing and settling in. That is the only similiarities between Reich and Robb (Roberts). Where Robb is total fantasy, from the future time period to the love life, Reich is realistic, from her love life to her daily grind on the job. She really is an anthropologist and she really does divide her time between Charlotte and Montreal. I don't know if her love life is as she depicts but it's certainly realistic. Women do get divorsed from men after 24 years of marriage because they catch the guy in bed with another, ususally younger woman. Anyway, enough about comparisons and background, on to the book.
Tempe, as I said above, a forensic anthropologist is working in Quebec when she is called in to investigate bones found in a basement of a pizza parlor. It turns out to be three sets of bones all of young girls. She digs into the history of the building and finds a connection to the mob and gets a phone call from a mysterious woman who claims to know what has gone on in the building where the bodies were found. All these things start Tempe, with the help of "hottie" detective Ryan, on the road to discovering how the girls became the "Pizza Parlor girls".
I do enjoy Reich's books because she entertains me with a mystery and the path to discovery and at the same time she teaches me things. For example, we learn about carbon dating and that tooth enamel can determine where in the world a person was born. Once again, we are what we eat. Fasinating, at least to me. To be entertained and educated at the same time is one of my greatest passions. There is a lot of technical jargon in Reich's books and if shows like CSI gross you out you most likely will not like these books. If that intrigues you then read and enjoy!
Tempe, as I said above, a forensic anthropologist is working in Quebec when she is called in to investigate bones found in a basement of a pizza parlor. It turns out to be three sets of bones all of young girls. She digs into the history of the building and finds a connection to the mob and gets a phone call from a mysterious woman who claims to know what has gone on in the building where the bodies were found. All these things start Tempe, with the help of "hottie" detective Ryan, on the road to discovering how the girls became the "Pizza Parlor girls".
I do enjoy Reich's books because she entertains me with a mystery and the path to discovery and at the same time she teaches me things. For example, we learn about carbon dating and that tooth enamel can determine where in the world a person was born. Once again, we are what we eat. Fasinating, at least to me. To be entertained and educated at the same time is one of my greatest passions. There is a lot of technical jargon in Reich's books and if shows like CSI gross you out you most likely will not like these books. If that intrigues you then read and enjoy!
Friday, September 4, 2009
The Chopin Manuscript by Jeffrey Deaver and others
Whoa, this book is unusal. A few posts ago you might have noticed that I read a Jeffrey Deaver book for the first time and I loved it. So, i've been looking for more. This book was started by Deaver and then a different author wrote each chapter after that until the end when Deaver wraps it up.
I enjoyed the first chapter but the second and third I was not very excited about at first. The authors went off into their own characters instead of adding on to Deaver's first character. I was too distracted and I wanted to know more about what happened to the characters in the beginning. Boy, was I off base. I love the way the second and third chapters developed in the book as a whole. The best thing is I had never heard of any of the authors that wrote with Deaver so now I have a whole slew of new authors to research and read. Yeah for me.
A music expert is coming home from Europe after meeting with a Piano tuner and finds someone trying to kill him and soon finds also that the Piano tuner has been killed. It becomes clear soon that the music expert is no ordinary music expert. He has hunted war criminals in the past.
Here are the other authors: L. Scottoline, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, John Ramsey Miller, James Grady, PJ Parrish, Jim Fusilli, David Corbett, Gilstrap, Pezzullo
I enjoyed the first chapter but the second and third I was not very excited about at first. The authors went off into their own characters instead of adding on to Deaver's first character. I was too distracted and I wanted to know more about what happened to the characters in the beginning. Boy, was I off base. I love the way the second and third chapters developed in the book as a whole. The best thing is I had never heard of any of the authors that wrote with Deaver so now I have a whole slew of new authors to research and read. Yeah for me.
A music expert is coming home from Europe after meeting with a Piano tuner and finds someone trying to kill him and soon finds also that the Piano tuner has been killed. It becomes clear soon that the music expert is no ordinary music expert. He has hunted war criminals in the past.
Here are the other authors: L. Scottoline, Lee Child, Joseph Finder, David Hewson, John Ramsey Miller, James Grady, PJ Parrish, Jim Fusilli, David Corbett, Gilstrap, Pezzullo
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