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Three For When It Happens Here

Spook Street by Mick Herron

Guide Me Home by Attica Locke

The Order by Daniel Silva

November 16, 2024 by Jake Leave a Comment

Like a lot of folks in the ten days since the election, I’ve perhaps been slow to process the news. This has impacted my reading. Whereas I’m usually a speed reader, I have found myself often putting off my reading to do some mindless activities. Dealing with reality can be tough, the uncertainty of what comes after the next two months are over is difficult to grapple with. Inadvertently, the three books I’ve read from immediately before the election into the ten days since have […]

Filed Under: Featured, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: attica locke, Catholic church, Daniel Silva, Darren Mathews, espionage, family secrets, Gabriel Allon, Guide Me Home, highway 59 series, Israel, London, mick herron, mystery, Religion, Slough House series, Slow Horses, Spook Street, Texas, The Order

Jake's CBR16 Review No:174 · Genres: Featured, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: attica locke, Catholic church, Daniel Silva, Darren Mathews, espionage, family secrets, Gabriel Allon, Guide Me Home, highway 59 series, Israel, London, mick herron, mystery, Religion, Slough House series, Slow Horses, Spook Street, Texas, The Order ·
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Darren, Texas Ranger

Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke

January 11, 2020 by Jake 1 Comment

Black writers, like all black people, are not defined solely by being oppressed. The majority of black fiction writers will write about how they deal with racism because it is an every day reality in their lives but it is not the only reality. Attica Locke’s fiction exemplifies this. Darren Mathews, the star of what appears to be the first in a series from Locke, is a complicated man. You empathize for him to a degree because of what he has to endure as a […]

Filed Under: Mystery Tagged With: attica locke, bluebird bluebird, Darren Mathews, mystery, Texas

Jake's CBR12 Review No:5 · Genres: Mystery · Tags: attica locke, bluebird bluebird, Darren Mathews, mystery, Texas ·
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