The Return of the King by J.R.R. Tolkien - good prevails and the king returns.
4 stars
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Alex by Pierre Lemaitre - my first book of 2014 and it was a doozy. The author earned the CWA International Dagger award for this book and it's his first translated into English. A woman is kidnapped and held prisoner with the stated intent of being watched until she dies. The story alternates between her viewpoint and that of the policeman trying to find her. Lots of plot twists. Pretty gritty and violent, I think most of my readers would find it too much. There is a previous novel featuring the same policeman and it would have been nice to read it first for some important context. I hope more of his novels will be published here.
5 stars
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The Thunder Keeper by Margaret Coel - this is part of a series I haven't read in quite awhile so I'm really behind. I have a sneaking suspicion I may have read this before. Indian reservation priest John O'Malley is told in confession that a suicide was murder and tries to find more evidence.
2 stars
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Red Herring by Archer Mayor - a Joe Gunther mystery, I'm catching up and am at least in this decade now. Three unrelated deaths may actually be the work of a serial killer. A little too much science/technical explanation and Willy Kunckle is still a jerk.
3 stars
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