Welcome to Litsy!

The last chapter made it all worthwhile for my research— it is my first and only true crime and I‘m not hooked but I can see how the genre appeals

📸 of my beloved juggling all our purchases on our trip to Beacon. We hit four out of five bookstores

I struggled a bit to get into this book. The author's writing style did not appeal to me at all. But eventually I fell into the rhythm, and it no longer bothered me. Much. The plot got a bit convoluted, and a bit graphic and violent for Noah. But I did get very caught up towards the end, thus the book earning a higher rating from me than I anticipated in the beginning.

#ChristmasCrimeChallenge “Short Stories” 🎅🏻💀🎄🔪

I ❤️ Agatha Christie and it‘s no surprise that I very much enjoyed this collection of Poirot short stories, most of which also featured Hastings.

I‘d seen all but two adapted for TV with David Suchet. The exceptions were “The Lemesurier Inheritance” and “The Market Basing Mystery” which were not filmed as part of the ITV production, though part of their plots were worked in to other episodes.

'You're a tick boxes kinda guy,' his wife used to say. And according to one of his annual performance reviews, 'a pedestrian determination' was the 'hallmark' of his 'approach to policing'.

Admin were thinking of bringing in self-assessment; if they did that, Muecke was tempted to write, 'Still standing.'

Some of the finest crime/noir storytelling in comics. Brubaker is a master at this. He has various crime series, and I cannot find fault with any of them. Bastard makes it look easy!
He is leagues above in quality over any other comic writer attempting crime fiction. There is no contest. Follow this man‘s writing, and you will never be disappointed.

“Mickey tried to listen – tried to keep himself in the moment and out of his head. His head, he had learned, was a dangerous neighbourhood where he could get lost – and he was lost in it right now.”

#Chill ❄️🥶❄️

#ARichLife

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

This was a random library find, I did not realize that it was the second book in a trilogy. I was intrigued by the book description on the back (along with it being published by Hardcase Crime), throw in the Tarantino blurb calling Faust, “a Veronica in a world full of Betties“. Sold! Angel is living incognito in Arizona when her past catches up to her & she hits the road with two professional fighters: one is a a cautionary tale of the (CONT)

When I started this book, I looked up the synopsis but ended up reading the movie one, which is very different than the book. Two strangers meet & talk, one proposes they each kill the person causing probs for the other one, then they go separate ways. The one follows through with his idea & harasses the other to participate. A detective is on the case. Stuff happens—don‘t want to spoil. A good psychological thriller before that was a genre.

My current co-worker

Lots of examples and ideas for a budding crime writer!