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I’m still recuperating from The Wheel of Time

The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald

The Drowning Pool by Ross Macdonald

The Ice Harvest by Scott Phillips

February 24, 2022 by ingres77 Leave a Comment

I’ve ordered these reviews exactly opposite from the order in which I read them, just to make things slightly more confusing. The Moving Target I’m trying to review this book, but the plot has intermingled in my brain with that of The Drowning Pool. They are virtually indistinguishable from one another. It also doesn’t help that I finished this book about two weeks ago. I typically listen to audiobooks at work, but I’ve gotten kind of obsessed with the podcast Knowledge Fight, which critically examines […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense Tagged With: Ross MacDonald, Scott Phillips, The Drownign Pool, The Ice Harvest, the moving target

ingres77's CBR14 Review No:4 · Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Suspense · Tags: Ross MacDonald, Scott Phillips, The Drownign Pool, The Ice Harvest, the moving target ·
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The cab turned off U.S. 101 in the direction of the sea.

The Moving Target by Ross MacDonald

October 31, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I didn’t really know much about this book going in, but it was referenced in the PD James book “Talking about Detective Fiction” as a kind of inheritor of Raymond Chandler, and in this first book, that holds up for sure. We follow Lew Archer, a former cop turned private detective, as he’s hired to assist on a missing person, a business tycoon in Los Angeles, who has gone missing. His family–a second wife and adult daughter–are worried something has happened to him. A recent […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: Ross MacDonald, the moving target

vel veeter's CBR12 Review No:582 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: Ross MacDonald, the moving target ·
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