FICTION –
1.) Bury Your Dead by Louise Penny (569.) – The best in the Inspector Gamache series. The
haunting story was a multiple award winner.
2.) Old City Hall by Robert Rotenberg (562.) – A great debut legal mystery set in
Toronto.
3.)
The Keeper of Lost Causes by Jussi
Adler-Olsen (620.) – A wonderful start to the series of Danish detective, Carl Mørck.
3.)
The Sherlockian by Graham Moore
(572.) – The book moves between Arthur Conan Doyle and a current Sherlockian
NON- FICTION
1.)
The Cinderella Army
by Terry Copp (596.) – The Canadian Army in WW II is given gritty difficult tasks after
Normandy.
2.)
Simon Wiesenthal by Tom Segev (563.) –
A comprehensive biography of the renown Nazi hunter
3.)
He Left Them Laughing when He Said Good-bye by Grant MacEwan (589.) – An intriguing look at the early Calgary
lawyer, Paddy Nolan
MOST
INTERESTING
1.)
Prairie Hardball by Alison Gordon (588.)
– My favourite Saskatchewan mystery featuring Saskatchewan women who played in
the All American Girls Professional Baseball League and the Saskatchewan
Baseball Hall of Fame.
2.)
Cake in the Hat Box by Arthur Upfield
(574.) – I have come to enjoy the mysteries of Napoleon “Bony” Bonaparte in
rural Australia from the 1930’s through the 1960’s. This is the first book I read in the series. Over the year I read two more Bony mysteries.
3.)
The Judas Window by John Dickson Carr
writing as Dickson Carter (629.) – A superb locked room mystery with a
precisely logical solution.
3.)
The Mystery of the Moonlight Murder
by Roderick Benns (615.) – Future Canadian Prime Minister, John G. Diefenbaker,
at 12 years of age solving a rural Saskatchewan mystery in 1908. I would have
loved to have had this book when I was 12 years old.
Thanks! I'll check 'em out.
ReplyDeleteBill - I think you've made some really excellent choices here! You mention some authors (such as Penny, Upfield, and Carr) whom I already know and really like and of course Adler-Olsen whom I just met this past year and hope to get to know better. I'm glad you found a really wide diversity of books to like.
ReplyDeleteTeena: Thanks for the comment. I look forward to further comments about any of the books you end up reading.
ReplyDeleteMargot: Thanks for the flattering comment. It was a very good year of reading for me.
ReplyDeleteA good list, Bill. I've read the Louise Penny books and like them very much. I've also read John Dickson Carr in the past. In fact, I'm rereading some of his books for the Vintage Mysteries Reading Challenge this year.
ReplyDeleteI don't seem to have read much non-fiction this year and from what I read only ENSLAVED BY DUCKS made the cut-off.
Though Susan Hill's HOWARD'S END IS ON THE LANDING is an excellent book. As is THE POISONER'S HANDBOOK.
Yvette: Thanks for the comment and the references to non-fiction. I will check them out.
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