Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Die Trying





Die Trying is the second novel in the Jack Reacher crime thriller series written by Lee Child. Jack Reacher, a former army military policeman, is walking along in downtown Chicago around lunchtime on a Monday. Right when he’s passing a dry cleaning establishment, a woman still recovering from a recent knee injury, using a cane, with a handful of freshly cleaned laundry stumbles out the door, Jack catches her and her laundry. All of a sudden, two men come up and abduct both of them at gunpoint and forces them into a car where a third man is waiting ready to go. The FBI starts searching for the woman as soon as it is discovered that she is missing. Who is this woman and why do they want her?

There is plenty of action in this book, especially towards the end. It takes a while before the reader sees much action by Jack even though he’s the main character of the book. It is still an enjoyable story.

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it in various formats at the following sites:



World of Sleuths Rating: ****
(Four out of five stars)



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Sunday, February 18, 2018

Inspector of the Dead







Inspector of the Dead is a Victorian thriller and the second novel in the Thomas De Quincey series by David Morrell. In this story, we follow Inspector Ryan, newly promoted Detective Sergeant Becker, Thomas De Quncey and his daughter Emily a few months after the events of the first novel in the series, Murder as a Fine Art, who are pursuing a serial killer who has started gruesomely murdering prominent government officials along with their families and servants and leaving notes of of an intent of assassinating Queen Victoria and Prince Albert along with their children. Will they be able to discover who is behind these murders and stop them before the murderer before they can get to the Queen?

This is a well crafted story by Morrell where he blends plenty of actual facts along with the fiction to keep the readers interest peaked throughout the entire book. There is plenty of action throughout the story and does tie in a little bit of romantic interest in the story. It is a very enjoyable read.

If interested in reading this book, you can purchase it from the following sites in various formats:

Amazon:  https://www.amazon.com/Inspector-Dead-Thomas-Emily-Quincey-ebook/dp/B00LLIIZC0/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1518996430&sr=1-1&keywords=inspector+of+the+dead+by+david+morrell

Barnes & Noble:  https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/inspector-of-the-dead-david-morrell/1119921227?ean=9780316323956#/

World of Sleuths Rating:  *****
(Five out of five stars)
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Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Black Echo



The Black Echo is the first novel in the Harry Bosch series by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch is a homicide detective in the Hollywood division of the Los Angeles Police Department. He gets a call on a Sunday morning about a dead body on a pipe on the Mulholland Dam. Since he’s on-call, Harry needs to respond to the call which most of the people responding believe to be a a junkie overdosing on heroine. Harry thinks things looks suspicious. After they get the body out of the pipe and bout to put it into the coroner’s van, Harry gets a good look at the face and recognizes the victim as a person that he served with in the Vietnam War twenty years before that. After that, Harry vows to set out to find what actually happened.

This is a good story, but some the reader may be able to predict some of the events well ahead of time. With that said, there are many twists and humorous spots in the story. The book is very enjoyable.

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World of Sleuths Rating: ****
(Four out of five stars)


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Friday, February 9, 2018

March Mystery Madness 2018 Announcement




March Mystery Madness is a month long readathon of mysteries and thrillers on Booktube (the book community on YouTube), GoodReads and Twitter. It was started two years ago by Elizabeth, channel name LizziefayeLovesBooks, and Troi, of Troi Towel, both small channels. Last year they added Di, Disis19 Hearts, another small channel, as another co-host and they also created the Goodreads group Mystery Madness where readers could participate along with on Booktube. They also did activities on twitter.

I had started my Booktube channel shortly less than a month before the event began last year and participated in it. There were seven challenges in it last year, designed at specific mysteries, more towards cozy mysteries. I adapted them more to what I was comfortable with reading which is thrillers .

This year, it was decided to invite more people to host the readathon, which include me, whose mystery preferences range from romantic suspense to cozy mystery, hard-boiled mysteries and various types of thrillers. There are nineteen hosts and three guest hosts this year. Most of the hosts have Booktube channels, some big and some small, like me. There are some of us that have blogs that we are using to spread word of the event this year. 

When working on planning the challenges for this year's readathon, it was generally agreed upon not to target any specific type of mystery in our challenges. We came up with six one-word challenges that can be interpreted by the participants how they see fit. Those challenges are:

1.  Shelf - This could be a mystery or thriller from you physical book shelf, ereader shelf, Goodreads          shelf, library shelf, etc.
2.  Borrow - This could be a book borrowed from the library, a friend, Hoopla, CloudLibrary,  
         Kindle Unlimited, etc.
3.  New - This could be a mystery or thriller that's a debut novel, a new to you author, a new novel by          an author, etc.
4.  Historical - This can be a classic mystery such as Sherlock Holmes or something by Agatha 
         Christie or a mystery or thriller that's written by a modern author that takes place sometime in  
         history.
5.  Foreign - This one can be a translated mystery or thriller or one that takes place in a country other
        than where you live, etc.
6.  Opposite - This one can be from a mystery or thriller sub-genre that you never read or a par of
        mysteries that are polar opposites.

The hosts are posting their announcement videos today on Booktube. Here is a link to my video:  March Mystery Madness Announcement

Whenever I post a new video for March Mystery Madness, I will post a new corresponding post here in this blog and include a link to the video.

Below are the links for the channels for all of the hosts for this year's March Mystery Madness. I encourage you to visit all of their channels. We will all be posting mystery related videos from now through the end of march.

Hosts for #MarchMysteryMadness 2018: 
Subscribe to see all their mystery related videos during March!
Mike and Becca from Books and Looks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCID9ka5z39t_0wE0h4PloQw

Mara from bookslikewhoa
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzfZdP0V5wRtO3xR79nAS2A
Courtny from Courtagonist
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGli6OijbAYLXxGGrcU7HZg
Di from Disis19 Hearts (hosting for her 2nd year)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUivQ7uYwojmtr8pQj75S-A
Emily of Emily Sears
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC10eg9LiUkB1U5pDQzYpG8g

Catherine from Jayne Catherine on Books
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6FLwH_JclBvP3za2X9k9MA

Kay of Kay T
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqWD_kolwsDNOjc3FPlN7Zg

Kady  @lilkadykitty on Twitter will be hosting Twitter sprints
Elizabeth from LizziefayeLovesBooks (co-creator)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA5YIIIh2MQ9wFrMXazPn1g 
Laura from mom2triplets04
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTD2t_Jo0lrlrT-7DSzvanQ

Sarah from Not Just Romance Novels
Jen of Remembered Reads
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpslOZdjsglmXfq1AfPJ2dA

Jo of Retired Book Nerd
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEHdvdxilEkeGvVg_Q6Kp3w

Steve of Steve Donoghue
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1B9FfvVLRt8s6scUa79oag

Stephanie from Time to Read
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdIj2DwiU-UtuS2Ef-MIIHA 
Tim of World of Sleuths
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_6HnShtKqQySiYKAC5ORpw

Guest hosts:

Troi of Troi Towel (co-creator)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDXuAdVsxAgVIpuqcIZrOpw

The Goodreads group Mystery Madness can be found at  https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/184109-mystery-madness

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