AJ Dunn Reads

  End of Watch By Stephen King  5 stars!

  American Tabloid By James Ellroy  3 stars.

  Joyland By Stephen King   5 stars!

  The Spy Who Came in From the Cold By John Le Carré  4 stars.

  The Shadow of the Wind By Carlos Ruiz Zafón   4 stars.

  Tell No One By Harlan Coben   5 stars!

  Out By Natsuo Kirino 4 stars.

  Gone Baby Gone By Dennis Lehane  4 stars.

  The Alienist By Caleb Carr   5 stars!

  Killing Floor By Lee Child   4 stars.

  He Died With His Eyes Open By Derek Raymond   4 stars.

  The Colorado Kid By Stephen King   3.5 stars.

  Red Harvest By Dashiell Hammett 2 stars.

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo By Stieg Larsson 4 stars.

  Fatale By Jean-Patrick Manchette 3 stars.

  A Rage in Harlem By Chester Himes 5 stars!

  The Singer's Gun By Emily St. John Mandel  4 stars.

  Last Night in Montreal By Emily St. John Mandel 4 stars.

  In Cold Blood By Truman Capote In this true crime novel, Truman Capote recounts the events leading up to the murders of the Clutter family in their home in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959 by Richard Hickock and Perry Smith. Capote gives the timeline of events from both the Clutter family and the murderer's points of view until the fateful night of the killings, then continues on through the search by detectives and what the killers did afterward before being arrested, tried, and hanged. It was a great read, the prose elegant and effectual in sympathizing for the victims while trying to dissect the states of mind of the killers. Capote limits his own role in the book with his involvement in interviewing Hickock and Smith, but his presence in the story is noted. His prtrayal of the cold bloodedness of the killers was haunting. In the end, I thought Capote had no sympathy for them. They got what they deserved. It was an easy 4 stars.

  Desolation Mountain By William Kent Krueger When a senator's plane falls out of the sky near Desolation Mountain, Cork O'Connor and his family become entrenched in a mystery involving missing native people who helped in the initial crash search and recovery, as well as the missing black box that several organizations seem interested in finding. So interested, they are willing to assault and kill anyone they think might have it or is standing in the way of finding it. Cork enlists the help of a past acquaintance, Bo Thorson, a former Secret Service man for the former first lady, who is now for hire by her and also working for a mysterious military-looking man named Gerard. Bo is playing both sides and all angles. Cork's son Stephen has been having visions of this crash and the scenario that serves as the backbone of this mystery. As the three of them (along with their friends and family) investigate the clues, Stephen's vision unfolds and we learn what caused the crash...