Crime

Another Italian crime writer on the scene, but I must say an intriguing one -  The Paper Moon by Andrea Camilleri has you riveted from start to finish and was translated from Italian by Stephen Sartarelli.

I do love crime novels but this one turned out to have some very weird twists and turns in it. I found the newspaper articles to be a hindrance rather than a help to the novel.

Adam who is chasing his Eve, experiences some very strange occurrences when he is killed and then bought back to life by the medical team. He experiences the afterlife which makes him think in a different way - and asks to be allowed to die again so he can get answers to the questions he has on the case he is working with as regard to Eve.

This is a great listen and although it is an abridged crime fiction it still lasts for 6hours and 35 minutes.

Michael Connelly is a a writer who keeps you gripped from the start to the finish of the discs, and he chose an award winning actor, Michael Brandon, who has a very animated voice which makes the story exciting the listener.

What a treat it was to listen to a Paul Temple story on this audio cd.  I can remember listening to him as a teenager - this version read by Anthony Head was exhilarating.

Erica's book is fantastic!

This is really good - not being an ardent fan of crime fiction, I approached it with some trepidation but was pleasantly surprised to find it totally engrossing.

The central character Lisbeth Salander is no conventional heroine - she's socially inept and uncaring, very intelligent, moral, amoral, violent, complex and fascinating. The initial chapters concentrate solely on how she sets up her life which illustrates these facets of her character. The pace picks up when Lisbeth is accused of three murders, and the hunt is on to find her, by friends, foes and police.

Exposed is about Maggie O'Dell an FBI Profiler who accidently walks into a trap and ends up being one of a number of officers detained in an isolation facility, until the virus that has struck down the main victim has been determined. Maggie, allthough she is confined there keeps trying to find out who the perpetrator of the crime is and why he struck out at the people concerned. I found Maggie to be a brilliant character along with her colleagues within the force. 

The Slaughter Pavilion is an amazing book set in Beijing. Author Catherine Sampson worked as a Beijing correspondant for the Times and started her career life by working for the BBC.

It is a long time since I have read a Peter James book and to come back into his work with  'Dead Man's Footsteps' was a joy. Set at the time of  the 9/11 catastrophy of the twin towers and 2007, we bounce between 3 countries - England, America and Australia - as Peter takes us on a magical mystery tour of who is who and how many names and experiences can our few protagonists go through.