Crime Fiction Recommendations

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by alansplace

i thought we were going to call that web site 'voldemort' or what is shared there 'the voldemort process'?

Sadly, while some of us would understand a post that said "buy the books from Amazon and use the Voldemort process to sonvert them with Calibre", a web search on that would be somewhat less than useful. So I think I'll save that naming for where it will be clear. Though I have to say the way we all dance around it is very Harry Potterish.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Sadly, while some of us would understand a post that said "buy the books from Amazon and use the Voldemort process to sonvert them with Calibre", a web search on that would be somewhat less than useful. So I think I'll save that naming for where it will be clear. Though I have to say the way we all dance around it is very Harry Potterish.

oops! i just noticed i forgot a smilie at the end of my text, so here it is oops, i just overdid it, oh well

but i'll have to say that your post is quite well stated.

[CRussel]

ROFLU. Karma for making me chuckle.

[HarryT]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Sadly, while some of us would understand a post that said "buy the books from Amazon and use the Voldemort process to sonvert them with Calibre", a web search on that would be somewhat less than useful. So I think I'll save that naming for where it will be clear. Though I have to say the way we all dance around it is very Harry Potterish.

You don't have to dance around anything. It's perfectly acceptable to say "Google for Apprentice Alf to find out all about DRM removal". Our site policy is simply that we don't permit links to sites which host DRM removal tools, or the provision of detailed instructions on how to do it.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by HarryT

You don't have to dance around anything. It's perfectly acceptable to say "Google for Apprentice Alf to find out all about DRM removal". Our site policy is simply that we don't permit links to sites which host DRM removal tools, or the provision of detailed instructions on how to do it.

i know that harry [and i'm sure charlie does too], i'm just being snide about it, for a chuckle

actually i strongly agree with the policy.

[CRussel]

Originally Posted by alansplace

i know that harry [and i'm sure charlie does too], i'm just being snide about it, for a chuckle

actually i strongly agree with the policy.

Yup. I completely agree with the policy as currently implemented.

[SensualPoet]

I love cabbages and I agree with the policy, too!

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by SensualPoet

I love cabbages and I agree with the policy, too!

cabbages?!?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by SensualPoet

I love cabbages

Karma for cabbages.

Originally Posted by alansplace

cabbages?!?

For explanation try Googling i♥cabbages.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

....For explanation try Googling i♥cabbages.

got it

[carpetmojo]

Originally Posted by CRussel

Yup. I completely agree with the policy as currently implemented.

Moi too.

Oh, and Google for Apprentice Alf to find out all about DRM removal.

This is what government should be like ....... sensible.

[estelle58]

Originally Posted by estelle58

I found "Still life" for 2.99$ on Amazon so I will have to read it on my iPhone
"A trick of the light" is the only one available on Kobo for the moment, I hope they will bring them all back so I can buy them for my Kobo

Louise Penny's entire collection in back on the Kobo library

[SensualPoet]

Originally Posted by estelle58

Louise Penny's entire collection in back on the Kobo library

Yah, no kidding ... about time. Hopefully, they stay put this time!

[tothepoint]

Just finished 'Relentless' by Simon Kernick which I enjoyed.

[SensualPoet]

The accomplished Loren D Estleman has published a wide variety of novels but none as popular as his series starring Amos Walker, Detroit-based Private Investigator. Elmore Leonard is quoted saying "Estleman turns Amos Walker loose in a plot and it’s pure private eye all the way. No one does it better." In American Detective, the 19th in the series and published in 2007, Walker takes on the case of a rash, petulant daughter of a faded baseball star and it quickly moves from petty theft to murder to international crime.

Publisher's blurb: Ex-Detroit Tigers pitcher Darius Fuller wants Amos Walker to break off his daughter's engagement to Hilary Bairn, a man he believes is after her two million dollar trust fund. But then Fuller's daughter is found dead in Bairn's apartment, and what seems like a simple case of greed and murder soon uncovers a twisted web of corruption. Walker discovers that Bairn had made many enemies before he disappeared, and continuing his investigation puts Walker on the wrong side of all of them. Soon Walker find himself on the run from crooked cops and vile gangsters, and at every turn farther from the truth than when he started ...

There is lots of he-man action and wry first person commentary: something like Spenser meets The Indestructible Man; yet the wise-cracking feels shallow and the violence is pushed beyond the endurance of even the toughest of tough guys. I confess not to have warmed up to Walker and, as the situations grew more and more physically unlikely, my interest in finding a solution to the case puzzle waned. Critics have found Estleman, in this Walker outing, hitting new heights; if this is among the best, it leaves me uncurious to sample too deeply what has come before. On balance, American Detective is entertaining but not memorable.

Available for Kindle or Kobo for about $9.