The Last Four Days of Paddy Buckley by Jeremy Massey ***
Stasi Child by David Young ****
The Monuments Men by Robert Edsel ***
Sign of the Cross by Anne Emery ***
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Blizzard of Glass by Sally M Walker ***
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2 comments:
You are one of the few males ( along with my husband) who seems to read books written by women as well as men. I notice this every week on forgotten books. How few of the men ever choose to review a book by a woman. Yet if we look at crime fiction, many women write fairly hard-boiled crime fiction.
I still have a bias though in the numbers. For me I think it is partially an artifact of sub-genres I read - noir, hardboiled, comic crime, espionage, procedural, and historical 1930s-50s (last two are pretty gender neutral), but not cozies or psychologicals, and I tend to shy away from domestically focused tales. I loved all the tart noirs in late 1990s/early 2000s, but they all seemed to peter out. I agree many women write great hard-boiled and should get a bigger (male) audience.
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