Highlight this week was posting about Dice by Claire Baylis even if the book is very challenging, and I was really happy to start Death in a Lonely Place which is a new to me series.
Reviews Posted
Bunny, S.E. Tolsen (#yeahnoir)
I Will Miss You Tomorrow, Heine Bakkeid (#scandinoir)
Dice, Claire Baylis (#yeahnoir)
Added to the Piles
Death in a Lonely Place, Stig Abell (#library)
The Kamogawa Food Detectives, Hisashi Kashiwai
The Little Sparrow Murders, Seishi Yokomizo (#audio)
Read
The Sentence is Death, Anthony Horowitz (#library / #ukcrime)
In The Blink of An Eye, Jo Callaghan
The Hunted, Gabriel Bergmoser (#auscrime / #audio)
Currently Reading
The Bat, Jo Nesbo (still dipping in and out of this one)
The Crag, Claire Sutherland (#auscrime)
Death in a Lonely Place, Stig Abell (#library)
Next Up
Southern Aurora, Mark Brandi
For fans of Stephen King and Stranger Things.
Two eyes bore into him from across the room. They're not her eyes. They're the same colour and shape, but they're not her eyes. 'I see you.'
Silas didn't have a happy childhood. Aunt Bunny made sure of that. But out of money and almost out of time, Silas and his girlfriend Rose are forced to return to his childhood home. Back to the darkness, back to the woods, where addiction and hedonism are disguising something much more sinister ...Plagued by strange, unnerving events, Silas is drawn back into the family by an ancient presence deep in the woods. It will not let him go, and neither will Bunny.
A haunting psychological-supernatural thriller that delves into the role that addiction plays in family dysfunction, and how it inevitably changes everyone around it. A chilling, page-turning tale about love conquering most ... but not all.
The first in a new Norwegian crime series featuring disgraced ex-Chief Inspector Thorkild Aske, a damaged man with a complicated past
Fresh out of prison and a stint in a psychiatric hospital, disgraced ex-policeman Thorkild Aske only wants to lose himself in drugged dreams of his beloved Frei. Wild, unknowable Frei. The woman he loved. The woman he has lost forever.
Yet when Frei’s young cousin goes missing off the Norwegian coast and Thorkild is called in by the family to help find him, dead or alive, Thorkild cannot refuse. He owes them this.
Tormented by his past, Thorkild soon finds himself deep in treacherous waters. He’s lost his reputation – will he now lose his life?
Four teenage boys invent a sex game based on rolling dice and doing what the numbers say.
They are charged with multiple sexual offences against three teenage girls.
Twelve random jurors are brought together in a trial to work out what actually happened.
Only they can say whether crimes have been committed and who should be punished.
How does the jury find?
Dice is a stunning courtroom drama told from the perspective of a diverse group of ordinary people - the jury. How will twelve women and men, aged from eighteen to seventy-two with hugely disparate backgrounds, beliefs and experience, decide whether consent was given or crimes were committed?
How can they possibly arrive at a unanimous verdict? How will justice be properly served?