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Light week this time around.
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1: Purple Aces – Robert J. Hogan: the second in the Adventure House series of reprints of pulp hero G-8 and His Battle Aces.
2: Known Dead – Carl Harstad: the second book in the Carl Houseman mystery series. Two men are killed in a blaze of gunfire in a marijuana field. One is the grower and one is a good cop. Deputy Sheriff Carl Houseman wants to know who and why.
3: The Solomon Kane Collection(ebook) – Robert E. Howard: the stories and fragments of the author’s Puritan character.
I finished Kane recently. Inspired writing though some passages in relation to race are dated.
I do want to see that film they made.
I have that movie, David. I’d read the stories many years ago and wanted to refresh my memories before watching to see if they used any elements from them. This collection is missing two of the stories and two of the fragments, is poorly edited with a lot of spelling errors and just plain mistakes(me is used numerous times where the should be).
Those sound interesting. Have a great week and enjoy your new reads.
I haven’t gotten this Kane yet, although I have all the earlier publicatiosn of the stories certainly.
I received for review Season of Seduction by Jennifer Haymore from The Book Tree.
Although the widowed Lady Rebecca has sworn off marriage, men are another matter. London’s cold winter nights have her dreaming of warmer pursuits-like finding a lover to satisfy her hungry heart. Someone handsome, discreet, and most importantly as uninterested in marriage as she is. Someone like Jack Fulton.
A known adventurer and playboy, Jack seems like the perfect choice. There’s just one problem: Jack isn’t interested in an affair. He needs the beautiful, mysterious Lady Rebecca to be his wife. And he doesn’t have much time to persuade her. A secret from Jack’s past is about to surface, and by Christmas Day he’ll be either married to Rebecca or dead.
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I received for review A Very Simple Crime by Grant Jerkins from Berkley Trade.
A twisting debut novel of murder and dark family secrets from a riveting new voice in crime fiction.
A murdered woman. A grieving husband. And their son-a mentally handicapped adult with a history of violent outbursts. A very simple case. Or is it?
Leo Hewitt, an Assistant DA once blamed for setting free a notorious child-killer, is eager to redeem himself with this intimate and grisly crime. As he digs below the surface he discovers more than he ever anticipated-including an emotionally disturbed wife, a husband who’d do anything to escape his disastrous marriage, and an accused young man with no apparent means of defense. But with each shocking new revelation, Leo is only led deeper and deeper into the darkness-an inescapable trap of blood bonds and twisted family secrets.
The books sound different. Enjoy your reading.
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I enjoy the Kane stories and revisit them frequently. The big b&w book from Dark Horse reprinting the ’70s Roy Thomas comics adaptations is good too.
I didn’t know there was a film. Can you clue me in?
Richard, it was released over a year ago. I don’t think it got much play in the States. I never saw a trailer anywhere except on Youtube when I found out about it. The DVD I got is from a European release(all regions) and I plan to watch it early in the morning. I’ll likely post on it tomorrow.
What a nice mixture of books! I need a week or two or three where only 3 books come in; I really do, which is why I’m not soliciting review books for a while
Enjoy the new reads!