Elf of Union Square by Jan Carr
An ancient, crotchety elf named Hiram and his sidekick, a Norwegian rat named Knut, conspire to drive people away from Union Square Park, while fifth-grader Jack Crain and a reporter for the New York Times, Will Manley, investigate. It was an entertaining read as it is faciniating to see how quickly people follow the herd over small things. Plus this story made me laugh as I know someone named "Will Manley" who works for the city of Tempe.
Monday, December 20, 2004
Shadows in the Darkness by Elaine Cunningham
The first book in the Changeling series by Tor Books, introduces Gwen (GiGi) Gelman, a disgraced vice cop who learns that the Family she's been fighting might be the family she never knew she had. Kind of a cross between Anita Blake & Merry Gentry - written by Laurell K. Hamilton. A lot less sex and violence which is a nice change. I enjoy Hamilton's works but get turned off by the gore and violence with her various characters.
The first book in the Changeling series by Tor Books, introduces Gwen (GiGi) Gelman, a disgraced vice cop who learns that the Family she's been fighting might be the family she never knew she had. Kind of a cross between Anita Blake & Merry Gentry - written by Laurell K. Hamilton. A lot less sex and violence which is a nice change. I enjoy Hamilton's works but get turned off by the gore and violence with her various characters.
Friday, December 10, 2004
Books by Jeffery Deaver
Featuring detectives Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs
Bone Collector
Quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme abandons his forced retirement and joins forces with rookie cop Amelia Sachs to track down a vicious serial killer. This was a very intense and totally had no idea of who dune it mystery. Very well crafted and I can't wait to read another one in this series. This title was made into a movie as well.
Coffin Dancer
Three witnesses to a murder could put a millionaire arms dealer behind bars for good. When one of them, the co-owner of Hudson Air, is blown up in a plane bombing with the Dancer's fingerprints all over it, the FBI takes the other witnesses into protective custody. Only Rhyme can decipher a crime scene, read the residue of a bombing, or identify a handful of dirt well enough to keep up with the killer. Helped by Amelia Sachs, his brilliant and able-bodied assistant, Rhyme traces the Dancer through Manhattan streets, airports, and subways. But in the end nothing is as it seems and it seems that the Coffin Dancer will win once again, or will he? An interesting against-all-odds love affair between Rhyme and Sachs develops and I can't wait to see if anything more happens or not.
Featuring detectives Lincoln Rhyme & Amelia Sachs
Bone Collector
Quadriplegic Lincoln Rhyme abandons his forced retirement and joins forces with rookie cop Amelia Sachs to track down a vicious serial killer. This was a very intense and totally had no idea of who dune it mystery. Very well crafted and I can't wait to read another one in this series. This title was made into a movie as well.
Coffin Dancer
Three witnesses to a murder could put a millionaire arms dealer behind bars for good. When one of them, the co-owner of Hudson Air, is blown up in a plane bombing with the Dancer's fingerprints all over it, the FBI takes the other witnesses into protective custody. Only Rhyme can decipher a crime scene, read the residue of a bombing, or identify a handful of dirt well enough to keep up with the killer. Helped by Amelia Sachs, his brilliant and able-bodied assistant, Rhyme traces the Dancer through Manhattan streets, airports, and subways. But in the end nothing is as it seems and it seems that the Coffin Dancer will win once again, or will he? An interesting against-all-odds love affair between Rhyme and Sachs develops and I can't wait to see if anything more happens or not.
Thursday, December 09, 2004
Dexter is now a show on Showtime featuring Michael C. Hall from Six Feet Under.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Meet Dexter Morgan. He's a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He's a handsome, though reluctant, ladies' man. He's polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He's also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment. Mind you, Dexter's the good guy in this story.
Wow! is about all I can say. Very well written and definitely engaging story. The ending was a bit predicible but such an interesting premise. I listened to it on CD and it was very well done.
Dearly Devoted Dexter finally is here!
Dexter's just added his 40th victim, a homicidal pedophile, and is eagerly looking ahead to number 41 but Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, is getting a little too close for comfort. So he decides to act normal and starts hanging out with his "girlfriend" Rita & her kids playing games and drinking lite beer. He is almost becoming normal.
Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay
Meet Dexter Morgan. He's a highly respected lab technician specializing in blood spatter for the Miami Dade Police Department. He's a handsome, though reluctant, ladies' man. He's polite, says all the right things, and rarely calls attention to himself. He's also a sociopathic serial killer whose "Dark Passenger" drives him to commit the occasional dismemberment. Mind you, Dexter's the good guy in this story.
Wow! is about all I can say. Very well written and definitely engaging story. The ending was a bit predicible but such an interesting premise. I listened to it on CD and it was very well done.
Dearly Devoted Dexter finally is here!
Dexter's just added his 40th victim, a homicidal pedophile, and is eagerly looking ahead to number 41 but Dexter's nemesis, Sergeant Doakes, is getting a little too close for comfort. So he decides to act normal and starts hanging out with his "girlfriend" Rita & her kids playing games and drinking lite beer. He is almost becoming normal.
His sister Deborah, now a detective for the Miami-Dade Police Department, is called in on a case that even give Dexter pause for thought. A man is found with "everything on [his] body cut off, absolutely everything"—a piece of work that makes Dexter's own tidy killings look like child's play. This madman, nicknamed Danco, spends weeks surgically removing his victims' ears, lips, nose, arms, legs, etc., while keeping them alive to watch their own mutilation. Despite a certain professional admiration for Danco's dexterity, Dexter decides to take on the case. Plus Deborah's boyfriend has been snatched as the latest victim. Danco is after those who turned on him during U.S.'s involvement in South America.
It's the contradictions in Dexter's character that make it all work—he's smart, he's funny, he cares for children, and yet he has no normal human responses or emotions.
Hopefully additional titles will follow.
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