Books

Copyright 1990 by Randy Wayne White. Published by St Martin’s Press, New York. This is the first of White’s series of mystery/adventure novels featuring Doc Ford, marine biologist. There are currently 26 books in the series, so this is the flagship of a very successful series. The book opens with Doc Ford returning from a … Continue reading »

Copyright 1991 by Stuart Woods. Published by HarperCollins, New York. This is the first book in the series of mysteries by Stuart Woods that feature Stone Barrington, upscale cop, investigator and lawyer. This is my second Barrington book, having read Foreign Affairs first (#35 in the series). I didn’t like Foreign Affairs much (I scored … Continue reading »

Copyright 2021 by David Benjamin. Published by Last Kid Books, Madison WI. The usual disclaimer: I know the author. He is one of my oldest and dearest friends. This is #3 in Benjamin’s series of mysteries featuring Jim Otis, Sheriff of Hercules WI, a small town disparagingly called “hicksville.” Otis is a former Chicago cop … Continue reading »

Copyright 1979 by Robert Ludlum. Published Bantam Books Inc, New York. I take a break from mysteries occasionally to read popular books in other genres.. This one falls into the “epic struggle of one man against a worldwide conspiracy” category. The protagonist is Brandon Scofield – also and somewhat inexplicably called “Bray”. He is an … Continue reading »

Copyright 2021 by Splendide Mendax, Inc., and Lincoln Child. Published by Grand Central Publishing, New York. This is #21 in the series of books by Preston and Child featuring Aloysius Pendergast, FBI agent extraordinaire. Probably the last one I will ever read. I have complained before about the Pendergast stories being too weird. This one … Continue reading »

Copyright 2011 by Harlan Coben. Published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, New York. This is #10 in the series of books by Coben featuring his crime-solving talent agent, Myron Bolitar, and his skull-cracking aristocrat buddy, Windsor “Win” Horne Lockwood III. I have read seven books by Coben now – three of … Continue reading »

Copyright 2021 by David Benjamin. Published by Last Kid Books, Madison WI. This is the second in Benjamin’s series of Jim Otis detective stories. In this one Otis gets drawn into a series of hate crimes in tiny Hercules WI which start as vandalism but escalate into bank robbery and attempted murder. He is no … Continue reading »

Copyright 2019 by Lee Child. Published by Dell, an imprint of Random House, New York. This is #24 (of 27 currently) in the Jack Reacher series of adventure/mystery books by Lee Child. I have read quite a few. But not 24. I will eventually read all of them, I think. But it will take some … Continue reading »

Copyright 2013 by Columbus Rose Ltd. Published by Grand Central Publishing, New York. This eponymous mystery is #6 in the series by David Baldacci featuring Sean King and Michelle Maxwell, two former Secret Service agents who formed their own private investigation business. It is a small, 2-person operation (though at the end of the book … Continue reading »

Copyright 2001 by Jonathan Kellerman. Published by Ballantine Publishing Group. Normally when I finish a book in 4 days it means that I really like the book. In this case it means less than that because the 4 days were days without electricity following Hurricane Ian. Still, not a bad book. This is #15 in … Continue reading »