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on January 05, 2014

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KNIFE, by Jo Nesbo

A Harry Hole suspense #12. Set in Oslo, starring brilliant but damaged detective Harry Hole, this book shouldn't be read without delving into prior works in this series. In fact, you should read #1 through #11 before you start this one. You're in for a wild ride following chain-smoking alcoholic Harry as he battles personal demons, the Oslo Police hierarchy, internal betrayals and intrigues, and a disastrous love life involving a myriad of fascinating women. Harry, despite his many obvious problems, is a major babe magnet. Oh, golly, I almost forgot the murders, all of them grisly and challenging, all solved by Harry and his almost-infallible gut, after hair-raising chases, searches, confrontations, and near-death moments. Every writer owes their story the truth. Being nice to characters, sparing them grief or upset, simply isn't possible. This is the darkest moments of Harry's tumultuous life, and because I never do spoilers, there's not a lot I can tell you abo...

IF WISHES WERE EARLS, by Elizabeth Boyle

4/series (Rhymes With Love). Miss Harriet "Harry" Hathaway's lineage may stretch to the Domesday Book, but thanks to improvident - and racy - forebears, her money won't stretch to a new gown. The sole female of five children, Harry learned early on to hold her own. But will being able to deliver a good "facer", as a punch to the nose is known in Georgian England, help her catch Lord Roxley, the man she loves? Dear, silly, playboy Roxley, whose lightweight facade hides a serious, even deadly, interior. Suddenly, Roxley is rolled up: financially ruined, as someone buys up all his debts. Roxley senses more at stake than is evident, and fears he is playing for the highest stakes. Which means, somehow, he's got to keep Harry out of all of this. With a mix of eccentric characters, amusing one-liners, plenty of action both expected and unexpected, and some deliciously steamy love scenes, any fan of Georgian romance will gobble this right up. It's a 4. The...

THE GOD OF SPRING, by Arabella Edge

Paris, 1818. Post-Napoleon, everything’s sliding back into the old ways, including total incompetence by noble appointees. The Medusa, part of a small flotilla of boats sent from France to re-assert control over the western Africa colony of Senegal, founders on a reef due to the blithe incompetence of a nobly-connected pilot. While the nobles set off for the coast in the only decent boat, most of the crew is set adrift on a jury-rigged raft. For harrowing days on the Atlantic searches in vain for rescue. Scandalized by the French court’s indifference to this monstrous injustice, artist Theodore Gericault decides to create a massive oil painting of the peak moment of the ordeal. The author has created scenes in Gericault’s life from sublime to grisly, making this book a must-read for historical novel enthusiasts. The painting, famous in its genre (you've seen it before, probably), is all the more powerful for the recounting in the novel of the actual ordeal by some of the traumatize...

EDWARD TRENCOM'S NOSE, by Giles Milton

Since Elizabethan times, the Trencom's of London have operated England's finest cheese shop, where 3000 different cheeses are tucked away in vast underground vaults, and the reigning male Trencom, with his unusual nose, holds court. Edward, tenth generation nose (and it is a whopper, complete with a very unusual bump at the top), discovers he's part of a conspiracy that has killed moswt of his forebears. As he delves into the mystery of why, this man who loves predictability suddenly becomes unpredictable (at times, to his wife's delight). Who are the mysterious Greeks who folow him? Why did Peregrine and Humphrey die? Why did Humphrey's body vanish frm the churchyard? All will be made clear in this whimsical, cheese lovers story. A 4.

A SEASON FOR THE DEAD, by David Hewson

1/series. Italian police detective Nic Costa searches in Rome’s oven-like August heat for a deranged but clever killer as the next victim, beautiful Sarah Farnese, hides out with Costa’s terminally-ill father in their suburban Rome farmhouse. The grisly martyrdom-based murders leave mangled bodies in Rome’s churches as shadowy Vatican figures dodge involvement... is this the source of the atrocities? Why was Sarah Farnese chosen? Who’s the mastermind? Costa and his silent, lumbering sidekick Luca Rossi, and pathologist-without-peer “Crazy Teresa” Lupo, seem to be too late each time. Hewson knows his Rome like you know your own home; it’s like a travelogue, but a very entertaining one. Great weekend read. It’s a 4, and a compelling series. www.davidhewson.com

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