Anthony Horowitz: Forever and a Day. 2018
Ljudbok (CD, 7 h 30 min, Lovisa stadsbibba)
Själva ”slutstriden” var nästan bäst skriven tyckte jag, men inte var det nu annars så ”häft”…
Julian Fellowes: Belgravia.2016
Inbunden (från kirppis)
Den börjar på the Richmond Ball i Bryssel (the evening of 15 June 1815, the eve of the Battle of Waterloo, the great and the good of British society have gathered in Brussels) – dvs. samma fest som finns i Vanity Fair (som jag såg två TV-serier om).
On at what is to become one of the most tragic parties in history – the Duchess of Richmond’s ball.
Den kommer snart som TV-serie, ser fram emot det!
John Irwing: Avenue of Mysteries. 2017
Ljudbok (17 CD, Lovisa stadsbibba)
Juan Diego, an aging writer, travels to the Philippines while struggling with his memories of growing up as a boy in Mexico, med sin syster Lupe, som kan läsa tankar.
Här finns igen sexuella minoriteter av olika slag, liksom cirkus.
R.J.Palacio: Wonder. 2017
Ljudbok (Cd, 8 h, Åbo stadsbibba)
Berättelsen om en pojke med sjukdom som ger deformerat ansikte.
Palacio wrote Wonder after an incident where her son noticed a girl with a severe facial difference and started to cry. Fearing he would react badly, Palacio attempted to remove her son from the situation so as not to upset the girl and her family but ended up worsening the situation.
Välskriven, lättlyssnad!
Peter Temple: Truth. 2010
Ljudbok (mp3, ca 10 h)
”In a summer of devastating forest fires in Australia, Inspector Stephen Villani, head of the Victoria homicide squad, has a spate of new killings to contend with. A woman has been found in a luxury apartment block with her neck broken. There is little hope of identifying her, and the apartment’s residents are proving impossible to trace. Meanwhile, the mutilated bodies of three drug dealers have been discovered in an abandoned warehouse across the city. Villani’s attempts to uncover the facts behind these crimes are obstructed from almost every angle: the owner of the apartment block has many influential friends, and is keen to preserve the reputation of his investment; politicians, senior police officers and figures in the media all throw their weight against the investigation, while Villani’s own subordinates undermine him at every turn.
Villani himself is an adulterous husband and an inadequate, guilt-ridden father and son; it emerges that he once helped another officer to disguise the fatal shooting of an unarmed suspect as an act of self-defence. He begins to realise that one of his colleagues might be among the people responsible for the crimes he’s investigating.”
Jag har inte läst många deckare från Australien – den här var lite svårt att hålla uppe koncentrationen för, undrar varför…
Margaret Atwood: Alice Grace. 2013
Ljudbok (13 CD, ca 16 h, Åbo stadsbibba)
Margaret Atwood: The Testaments. 2019
Ljudbok (9 CD, Åbo stadsbibba)
It’s set 15 years after the events of The Handmaid’s Tale. It is narrated by Aunt Lydia, a character from the previous novel; Agnes, a young woman living in Gilead; and Daisy, a young woman living in Canada. (Och båda är ju Handmaid’s Tales handmaidens döttrar)
Nog en av årets hittills bästa böcker.
Peter Robinson: Many Rivers to Cross. 2019
Ljudbok (CD, Åbo stadsbibba, 11,5 h)
Inspector Banks-bok 26. Helt bra.
In Eastvale, a young Middle Eastern boy is found dead, his body stuffed into a wheelie bin on the East Side Estate. Then, in a decayed area of Eastvale scheduled for redevelopment, a heroin addict is found dead.