A book haul...Finding crime in the park.

This is one of my catch-up posts. I found these books in a local park about a month ago.

I mentioned in a previous post that a generous individual was leaving books in the park, usually four or five at a time. With the weather being rain, followed by more rain, to leave them in the park would only result in them getting soaked. I chose to rescue them. If I did not want them, I could always re-deliver them to a local charity shop.

I get the impression that the person leaving the books, likes a thriller, suspense, mystery, and crime. 

Here's what I found.

All the ratings are from the Goodreads website (as of writing). 

1) The Cuckoo's Calling, 2013, by Robert Galbraith (a pseudonym for J K Rowling).  3.89 average review rating. 579328 ratings and 37427 GR reviews.

After losing his leg to a land mine in Afghanistan, Cormoran Strike is barely scraping by as a private investigator. Then John Bristow walks through his door with an amazing story: His sister, the legendary supermodel Lula Landry, famously fell to her death a few months earlier. The police ruled it a suicide, but John refuses to believe that.

Link: The Cuckoo's Calling 

2) Win, 2021, by Harlan Coben.  4.09 average review rating. 66715 ratings and 4865 GR reviews.

From a #1 New York Times bestselling author comes this thrilling story that shows what happens when a dead man's secrets fall into the hands of a vigilante anti-hero—drawing him down a dangerous road.

Link: Win

3) Pure Evil, 2023, by Lynda La Plante.  4.34 average review rating. 2546 ratings and 116 GR reviews.

ALL KILLERS WANT TO MAKE THE FRONT PAGE . . .

Link: Pure Evil

 

4) Victim Without a Face, 2014, by Stefan Ahnhem.  3.97 average review rating. 9311 ratings and 867 GR reviews.

Criminal investigator Fabian Risk has left Stockholm with his wife, Sonja, and their two children to start fresh in his hometown of Helsingborg. He has planned a six-week vacation before he starts a new job at the Homicide Department. But after only a few hours in their new home, he is asked to investigate a brutal murder.

Link: Victim Without a Face