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cell

After Brian’s reaction to the last Stephen King novel, I don’t think he’s going to like this one. Not to give anything away, but the ending kind of sucks. Again. Up to that point, I really did enjoy the book even though I found it to be a bit derivative. …

trace

This was a book written by Patricia Cornwell. It was one in her “Kay Scarpetta” series of books. Kay is a chief medical examiner (a “Quincy”, if you will). With all of the CSI nonsense going on these days, I can see why this is a popular series. The book …

the taking

This is another recent one from Dean Koontz. I don’t know if his writing has gotten better in the past few years or if I just needed a break from him, but I really enjoyed the last two books I read of his. This book was seemingly about an alien …

the colorado kid

Stephen King has a new book out. So much for retirement. This book was published in paperback from Hard Case Crime. One of Brian’s coworkers had the book otherwise we probably wouldn’t have heard about it. It was a story about a man who died on a beach and how …

odd thomas

I finished reading this novel yesterday while waiting for Jake at his karate lesson. I rather enjoyed it. It’s the first book from Dean Koontz that I’ve read in a while and I was wondering how it was going to be. After reading a bunch of his books, I noticed …