Books

Copyright 2009 by Dan Brown. Published by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, New York. I hadn’t thought of this as one of a series, but it is. It is #3 of 5, according to Amazon.com. The series features world-renowned symbologist Robert Langdon. The second in the series was the wildly popular The Da … Continue reading »

Copyright 2022 by David Benjamin. Published by Last Kid Books, Madison WI. The usual disclaimer: David Benjamin is a lifelong friend. I started reading Witness to the Crucifixion with the expectation that it would be written with the same whimsy that characterizes Benjamin’s other books. I expected a fun read. But a quarter of the … Continue reading »

Copyright 2002 by Hieronymus, Inc. Published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston MA. The technology in this book is a bit hard to swallow – literally – but the story is compelling and is very well-written. Connelly never disappoints. The story begins with the CTO of a cutting-edge biotechnology company, Henry Pierce, moves into a … Continue reading »

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 »