Life is too short to read books we don’t love! I used to feel committed. If I started a book, either because of loyalty to the author or the good money I paid for it, I slogged through until the end. Nowadays, I only give a book three chapters. If I’m not hooked, I go to another. We have too many wonderful options!
Here’s an assortment of books that
did captivate me. Stories from all around the globe. From death and suspense in India to mystery and romance in Russia. A timeless romance on the beaches of Hawaii. Literary fiction in Paris and a small-town thriller.
Nev March’s debut novel delivers a hard-hitting murder mystery set in British-era Bombay of the 1800s, with a keen look at India’s eclectic and complex social fabric.
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âEyes Open. Hit First. Move Fast. Stop When Heâs Dead.â
Credit.Pablo Amargo
Dec. 24, 2020
The Butcherâs Boy â the professional killer we first met in Thomas Perryâs debut novel back in 1982 â hasnât lost his
extremely sharp edge. In his fourth outing,
EDDIEâS BOY (The Mysterious Press, 274 pp., $26), Michael Schaeffer, as he now calls himself, shows how far he has come in the world since his early career as a hit man. (âHeâd had a long life for a man in his line of work,â he acknowledges, with some satisfaction.) Schaeffer is living uneventfully with his English wife in Bath when his previous life intrudes with a vengeance. Four armed men have come to kill him, and while their corpses are now safely stowed in a big black sedan, Michael has no idea who sent them. Some mob family must have called for his assassination â but which one?
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