Tuesday, February 11, 2014
I am a little behind on my bestseller reading. There are a few items on the NYT bestseller list that I am looking forward to. The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd is an historical fiction about a woman who grew up to become a prominent abolitionist, but who was given the gift of a slave girl for her 11th birthday. Nancy Horan has written another book about a famous couple. She had previously given us Loving Frank about the architect Frank Lloyd Wright. This year, she has published Under the Wide and Starry Sky about Robert Louis Stevenson's troubled marriage. Stephen King has a new release for all of us who were terrified by The Shining. Doctor Sleep is his newest book which continues the life of Dan the boy with powers in The Shining as a grown up.
For those of you who like British mysteries, Alan Bradley has a new book in the Flavia DeLuce series The Dead in their Vaulted Arches. After all, who would not like a detective who is a 12 year old prodigy with an interest in poison?
If it keeps snowing, I will keep reading!
Back in the USSR.....
Watching the Sochi Olympics made me reach for one of my favorite authors. Martin Cruz Smith published a new thriller in the Arkady Renko series. Tatiana is his latest addition to this series featuring detective Arkady Renko. We met Arkady in 2007 in Smith's first novel in the series Gorky Park. Renko is a police detective in Moscow. He has survived bullets, corruption, the evolution into the new Russia and the remnants of the Great Patriotic War. If we were to make a movie, we would need to revive Humphrey Bogart to play Arkady. Only he could match cynicism with a moral compass like Rick in Casablanca. In Tatiana, Renko is suspicious about the supposed suicide of an investigative reporter and the assassination of a Russian crime lord. His investigations take him to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Coast where he encounters organized crime, a murderous butcher, a secret code, children searching for amber on the coast and a government cover-up of epic proportions. Smith captures contemporary geopolitics with a thriller that will have you guessing.
Watching the Sochi Olympics made me reach for one of my favorite authors. Martin Cruz Smith published a new thriller in the Arkady Renko series. Tatiana is his latest addition to this series featuring detective Arkady Renko. We met Arkady in 2007 in Smith's first novel in the series Gorky Park. Renko is a police detective in Moscow. He has survived bullets, corruption, the evolution into the new Russia and the remnants of the Great Patriotic War. If we were to make a movie, we would need to revive Humphrey Bogart to play Arkady. Only he could match cynicism with a moral compass like Rick in Casablanca. In Tatiana, Renko is suspicious about the supposed suicide of an investigative reporter and the assassination of a Russian crime lord. His investigations take him to Kaliningrad on the Baltic Coast where he encounters organized crime, a murderous butcher, a secret code, children searching for amber on the coast and a government cover-up of epic proportions. Smith captures contemporary geopolitics with a thriller that will have you guessing.
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