[ebooktalk] Re: What I am reading
- From: "Shell" <shell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 19:23:20 +0100
Thanks for the book David, I'll download that one.
Strange, I posted my reply from Andy's email address by mistake, but it still
made it onto the list even though that email address isn't subscribed.
Sorry about that.
Shell.
--------------------------------------------------
From: "Andy" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2013 11:57 AM
To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [ebooktalk] Re: What I am reading
> I haven't heard of that one David, or the author. It sounds good though.
> I am just finishing reading Suspect by Robert Crais. It is really good and
> the first one of his that I have read. I love any book that has a good dog
> character in. It is about an injured police man and a dog who was injured in
> Afghanistan and how they team up to work together.
> Shell.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "David Russell" <david.russell8@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:40 PM
> To: <ebooktalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [ebooktalk] What I am reading
>
>> Evening All, or Morning for Elaine,
>>
>> I am currently reading a really good book. It is from Audible, but I am
>> going to decode it and put it up on sendspace tomorrow.
>>
>> The book is by Robert Galbraith and is called "The cuckoo's calling". It is
>> set in London in 2010, and is about a model who seemingly thows herself from
>> her third floor Mayfair balcony and kills herself. The police are sure it
>> is suicide but her brother disagrees and calls upon a private detective to
>> solve the mystery. I have not finished the book yet, but the Private
>> Detective is a really good character. His name is Cormoron Strike and he is
>> an ex-serviceman who got part of one leg blown off. He is larger than life,
>> in more ways than one, and many of the people he comes across in his
>> investigations are really well drawn characters as well. The amazon reviews
>> liken the writing to P D James or Ruth Rendell, but I am not sure that gives
>> a correct impression.
>>
>> The Audible book is read by Robert Glenister, who does very well with this
>> book.
>>
>> I think any of you who remotely enjoy detective fiction will get something
>> out of this book. So far there is little in the way of violence, the
>> emphasis being more on interviewing suspects rather than fast action so in
>> that respect it is possibly a little old-fashioned. I can't wait to see how
>> it ends, and I hope at least a few of you will give it a try.
>>
>> I will provide a sendspace link hopefully in the next day or two.
>>
>>
>> David
>>
>>
>>
Other related posts:
