The Broken Teaglass Emily Arsenault
Interesting novel about lexicographers discovering hints about a killing in the citations. The relationships were all only verbal, no real depth to them, and the male protagonist had no male characteristics at all. He seemed completely unreal. Good, but got tedious toward the end.
Fun & Games Duane Swierczynski
Surprisingly entertaining action thriller about an actress being hunted by a team of assassins. And Charlie Hardie gets caught in the crossfire. The reader is pulled along nicely by the almost invisible prose, but the mindless action gets a little unbelievable by the end. But it was like the title.
A Death in Summer Benjamin Black
I was growing tired of Quirke by the end of Elegy for April, and he is even more tiresome in this novel. Got so I didn’t find any of the relationships credible, and didn’t care about any of the characters or who killed whom. Banville is a beautiful writer, the prose is superb, but I just wanted to be done with it.
