This Week I are mostly reading (contd)

eire4

Finished John Connolly's crime thriller The Dirty South. While part of the author's excellent Charlie Parker series this is like an origin story book rather then a continuation of that series. But it is another great read in the series all the same.

Nemanrio

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Have you read all the other books in between? What did you think of them?

eire4

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I have read all the books in his Parker series up till The Dirty South and I would highly recommend them. Absolutely loved them all. Planty of action, good characters and a good on going story line woven through them.

Xofpod

Read and enjoyed All I did was shoot my man, Walter Mosley. It's by the writer of the Easy Rawlins series but set in contemporary New York. Same focus on crime, detectives/PIs, wealth and race concerns, etc. Same noir type focus and - tbh- a somewhat similar main character.

I did the same as with the Easy Rawlins series and jumped in somewhere in the middle. Previously that was by chance but this time consciously; I found with the other series that I enjoyed going back and reading the earlier books, getting backstory on the characters I'd already met, etc. Not sure how other readers feel about jumping into a series midway? I know I would have been allergic previously but Im coming around to the idea…

eire4

Finished The final book in Robert Ludlum's Bourne thriller series The Bourne Ultimatum and enjoyed it very much.