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eviltammyOnly one left :)
Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke - NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher is on her morning jog with her brother when they stumble across a scene of a newly found dead body - a young college girl visiting the city and never making it back to her hotel after a night of partying. Ellie and her partner track the night's events and end up arresting an arrogant young investment banker, but after being alerted to some similar cold cases, Ellie begins to think they have the wrong man and are after a serial killer instead. Second in a series - didn't read the first, will have to hunt it down. Liked this pretty well - moved swiftly, good characters, pop culture references. Killer comes out from left field a bit, but still fairly convincing.
Corsair by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul - my first Kindle book :) One of the Oregon Files series, with a historical background of pirates off the Barbary Coast, and a current setting of terrorists in the Middle East. The US Secretary of State's plane crashes in Libya on the way to a peace conference and Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must find her, and some historical writings from a Muslim cleric turned pirate, before terrorists can destroy any efforts towards peace in the future. Fun, totally unbelievable, and a little history thrown in for good measure.
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child - newest Jack Reacher. Reacher's on a NYC subway car at 2 am and is worried one of the other passengers might be a suicide bomber - she fits all the categories on the list. He's partially right - she commits suicide, but with a gun, killing only herself. But during the ensuing investigation by the police, several different groups of feds (or people claiming they're federal agents) try to get information from him that he doesn't have. Delving into the death of this Pentagon worker, Reacher finds links back to the Russian invasion of Afganistan in the 80's and American clandestine involvement that could have embarassing repercussions for a NC senator and the US government. Loved it. Great background stuff, good look at the way searching for terrorists has changed, and the uses and abuses of power. Reacher kicks butt, but also uses his brain to work his way through the puzzle.
Angel's Tip by Alafair Burke - NYPD detective Ellie Hatcher is on her morning jog with her brother when they stumble across a scene of a newly found dead body - a young college girl visiting the city and never making it back to her hotel after a night of partying. Ellie and her partner track the night's events and end up arresting an arrogant young investment banker, but after being alerted to some similar cold cases, Ellie begins to think they have the wrong man and are after a serial killer instead. Second in a series - didn't read the first, will have to hunt it down. Liked this pretty well - moved swiftly, good characters, pop culture references. Killer comes out from left field a bit, but still fairly convincing.
Corsair by Clive Cussler & Jack Du Brul - my first Kindle book :) One of the Oregon Files series, with a historical background of pirates off the Barbary Coast, and a current setting of terrorists in the Middle East. The US Secretary of State's plane crashes in Libya on the way to a peace conference and Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must find her, and some historical writings from a Muslim cleric turned pirate, before terrorists can destroy any efforts towards peace in the future. Fun, totally unbelievable, and a little history thrown in for good measure.
Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child - newest Jack Reacher. Reacher's on a NYC subway car at 2 am and is worried one of the other passengers might be a suicide bomber - she fits all the categories on the list. He's partially right - she commits suicide, but with a gun, killing only herself. But during the ensuing investigation by the police, several different groups of feds (or people claiming they're federal agents) try to get information from him that he doesn't have. Delving into the death of this Pentagon worker, Reacher finds links back to the Russian invasion of Afganistan in the 80's and American clandestine involvement that could have embarassing repercussions for a NC senator and the US government. Loved it. Great background stuff, good look at the way searching for terrorists has changed, and the uses and abuses of power. Reacher kicks butt, but also uses his brain to work his way through the puzzle.
