Books Finished January 15th – 21st
More of the same...for now.
Broken Harbor (4/60) - Tana French (Dublin Murder Squad, #4)
Tana French has a way of making characters that would rather not get personal…get personal. In this book, that lucky narrator is Detective Mick “Scorcher” Kennedy who was introduced in the previous Murder Squad installment. This time, a family has been murdered in their home. The location happens to be in a housing development that’s been built over where Scorcher spent summer family vacations by the sea as a teenager.
Scorcher thinks this case is going to wrap up nicely. He’s even getting chummy with his new partner – a rarity for him. Of course, this case is far from simple, and it finds him confronting complex memories that shaped him and his relationship with his sisters. Scorcher is all about control, but everything changes after returning to Broken Harbor.
“Murder is nature. Hadn’t you noticed that? People maiming each other, raping each other, killing each other, doing all the stuff that animals do: that’s nature in action. Nature is the devil I’m fighting, chum. Nature is my worst enemy. If it isn’t yours, then you’re in the wrong fucking gig.”
- “Scorcher” Kennedy in Broken Harbor
Fix Her Up (5/60) - Tessa Bailey (Hot & Hammered, #1)
If you’ve never read Tana French before, then I don’t know how to explain the genre. Maybe adult romance but light and humorous? Apparently, there is a subgenre of adult romance called breeding…this is definitely not that. In Fix Her Up, the main character is literally a clown. The love interest is an ex-baseball player trying to find a reason to not drink himself to death. The book is rife with all kinds of small town and family drama. I know what I’m getting into when I read these types of books. I know very well how they will end. Nonetheless – I keep listening to them!