December Reading Round-Up

In December I read and reviewed at A Crime is Afoot:

• The Burning Room (Orion, 2014) by Michael Connelly (A)
• Snowblind (Orenda Books, 2015) translated by Quentin Bates, 2015. First published in Icelandic as Snjóblinda, 2010 by Ragnar Jonasson (A+)
• The False Burton Combs (Les Editions de Londres, 2013) First published in the Black Mask Magazine in December 1922 by Carroll John Daly (Not rated)
• We Shall Inherit the Wind (Orenda Books, 2015) translated by Don Bartlett. Originally published as Vi skal arve vinden in 2010 by Gunnar Staalesen (A+)
• Ten Star Clues (Dean Street Press, 2015) First published in 1941 by E. R. Punshon (B)
• The Case of the Constant Suicides (Harper & Row, Publishers, 1989) First published in 1941 by John Dickson Carr (A+)

Currently reading Mildred Pierce by James M Cain, another 1941 book, but my review will not be ready to be included on time in Rich Westlake’s 1941 roundup at Past Offences.

For the year, if I counted correctly, I read and reviewed a total of 59 books.

Some of books on top of my TBR pile:

• No Other Darkness, by Sarah Hilary
• The Caveman, by Jørn Lier Horst
• Little Black Lies, by Sharon Bolton
• The Defence, by Steve Cavanagh
• After the Crash, by Michel Bussi
• The Missing and the Dead, by Stuart MacBride
• A Death in Summer (Picador, 2012) First published 2011 by Benjamin Black
• The Dying Place (Avon, 2014) by Luca Veste
• The Diggers Rest Hotel (Penguin Aus, 2010) by Geoffrey McGeachin
• Shadow of the Rock (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) by Thomas Mogford
• The City of Strangers (Avon, 2013) by Michael Russell
• The Front Seat Passenger by Pascal Garnier
• L.A. Quartet (The Black Dahlia, The Big Nowhere, L.A. Confidential and White Jazz) by James Ellroy
• The Abrupt Physics of Dying by Paul E. Hardisty