Huston has not released anything since the very excellent Sleepless, so the annoucement of the new book, Skinner, had me freaking out. He's and amazing writer with this magical gift of being able to write across genres:
- The Joe Pit series - Noir/Vampires/Lone Male on a mission
- Sleepless - Plague distopia/Gaming/Conspiracy (Think Ready Player One, but darker)
- The Shotgun Rule - Period (1980's)/Drugs/Reconcilliation
- The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death - Quirky/Mystery/Repairing the Human Spirit (See Beat the Reaper and/or Wild Thing)
The new novel sounds like it will combine espionage and robotics. It should be amazing!!!!
For more info:
http://www.mulhollandbooks.com/books/springsummer-2013/skinner/
http://charliehuston.com/
After MI-6 bails her out of a bad situation, Delilah owes them a favor. The job? To get close to the beautiful activist Fatima in order to ascertain where her brother, a suspected terrorist, is planning to attack.
This novella was such a disappointment. Eisler has only released one short story since publishing The Detachment and I've missed him greatly. The books, even the short stories, build and then explode with action, twisting and turning until the reader doesn't know who to trust, but this was so predictable.
She meets Fatima, they share a few meals, Delilah invites her on a trip to Bora Bora and on the last night of the trip they unexpectedly fall into one another's arms? Unexpectedly? Really? I felt it coming when MI-6 told Delilah that 2 men had already failed to get close to Fatima.
Let's just hope the next one is better.
Tobias has spent 10 years in jail for the murder of two of his classmates. He's served his time, but instead of starting fresh, he chooses to go home to village he grew up in - the village where his classmates when missing.
The town turns his back on him and just when it seems that things couldn't get any worse, another girl goes missing.
The pacing this book was intense. Neuhaus has this incredible way of weaving in and out of the lives of the villagers. She takes great pains to drop hints and suggestions and just when you think the story story twists on you again.
I can't tell you too much more or I'm afraid I'll give something away.
Highly recommended for a lovers of Scandinavian crime novels!!!!!!!
Huston has not released anything since the very excellent Sleepless, so the annoucement of the new book, Skinner, had me freaking out. He's and amazing writer with this magical gift of being able to write across genres:
