Lethal White

When Billy, a troubled young man, comes to private eye Cormoran Strike's office to ask for his help investigating a crime he thinks he witnessed as a child, Strike is left deeply unsettled. While Billy is obviously mentally distressed, and cannot remember many concrete details, there is something sincere about him and his story. But before Strike can question him further, Billy bolts from his office in a panic. Trying to get to the bottom of Billy's story, Strike and Robin Ellacott - once his assistant, now a partner in the agency - set off on a twisting trail that leads them through the backstreets of London, into a secretive inner sanctum within Parliament, and to a beautiful but sinister manor house deep in the countryside. And during this labyrinthine investigation, Strike's own life is far from straightforward: his newfound fame as a private eye means he can no longer operate behind the scenes as he once did. Plus, his relationship with his former assistant is more fraught than it ever has been - Robin is now invaluable to Strike in the business, but their personal relationship is much, much more tricky than that . . .

En riktig tegelsten, men varje sida var läsvärd. J.K har ett sätt att beskriva personer och miljöer som är väldigt fångande och underhållande. Jag blir verkligen engagerad i huvudpersonernas öden.

Children of the Revolution

A disgraced college lecturer is found murdered with £5,000 in his pocket on a disused railway line near his home. Since being dismissed from his job for sexual misconduct four years previously, he has been living a poverty-stricken and hermit-like existence in this isolated spot.

The suspects range from several individuals at the college where he used to teach to a woman who knew the victim back in the early '70s at Essex University, then a hotbed of political activism. When Banks receives a warning to step away from the case, he realises there is much more to the mystery than meets the eye - for there are plenty more skeletons to come out of the closet . . .

Watching the Dark

DCI Alan Banks reluctantly investigates DI Bill Quinn with Inspector Joanna Passero. Quinn, convalescing at St Peter’s Police Treatment Centre, was killed by a crossbow on the tranquil grounds, and left compromising photos. Quinn may be disreputable, linked to a vicious crime in Yorkshire and to a cold case – English Rachel Hewitt 19 vanished in Estonia six years ago.

All the Colours of Darkness

A beautiful June day in the Yorkshire Dales, and a group of children are spending the last of their half-term freedom swimming in the river near Hindswell Woods.
But the idyll is shattered by their discovery of a man's body, hanging from a tree.
DI Annie Cabott soon discovers he is Mark Hardcastle, the well-liked and successful set designer for the Eastvale Theatres current production of Othello. Everything points to suicide, and Annie is mystified. Why would such a man want to take his own life? Then Annie's investigation leads to another shattering discovery, and DCI Alan Banks is called back from the idyllic weekend he had planned with his new girlfriend. Banks soon finds himself plunged into a shadow-world where nothing is what it seems, where secrets and deceit are the norm, and where murder is seen as the solution to a problem.
The deeper he digs the more he discovers that the monster he has awakened will extend its deadly reach to his friends and family. Nobody is safe.

Friend of the Devil

When Karen Drew is found sitting in her wheelchair staring out to sea with her throat cut one chilly morning, DI Annie Cabbot, on loan to Eastern Area, gets lumbered with the case. Back in Eastvale, that same Sunday morning, 18 -year-old Hayley Daniels is found raped and strangled in the Maze, a tangle of narrow alleys behind Eastvale's market square, after a drunken night on the town with a group of friends, and DCI Alan Banks is called in. Banks finds suspects galore, while Annie seems to hit a brick wall—until she reaches a breakthrough that spins her case in a shocking and surprising new direction, one that also involves Banks. Then another incident occurs in the Maze which seems to link the two cases in a bizarre and mysterious way. As Banks and Annie dig into the past to uncover the deeper connections, they find themselves also dealing with the emotional baggage and personal demons of their own relationship. And it soon becomes clear that there are two killers in their midst, and that at any moment either one might strike again.

Här kör vi på och har läst ännu en kommissarie Banks-bok. Bra som alltid!

Piece of My Heart

1969... In an era of free love and rebellion, a dead body is discovered among the detritus of a recently concluded rock festival—a beautiful young woman stabbed so savagely through the chest that a piece of her heart was sliced off.

Now... A freelance journalist, a stranger to the region, is savagely bludgeoned to death in a shocking act of violence with no apparent motive.

Two murders separated by four decades are investigated by two very different but equally haunted investigators—one, a casualty of war unable to come to terms with a confusing new world; the other, a rogue policeman harbouring ghosts of his own. But the truth behind a grisly present-day slaying may somehow be hidden in the amplified, drug-induced fog of a notorious past, propelling Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks into the darkest shadows of the peace, love, and rock 'n' roll generation.

Strange Affair

A bullet to the brain abruptly halted a terrified young woman's desperate flight. In her pocket is the name of a policeman whose own life was brutally invaded, mercilessly shaken, and very nearly erased—a policeman who has since gone missing.

The dead woman in the car had been running from something—but she didn't run far or fast enough. Detective Inspector Annie Cabbot would like to question the man the victim was apparently racing to meet: Annie's superior—and former lover—Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks. But Banks has vanished into the anonymous chaos of the city, drawn into a mad whirl of greed, inhumanity, and death, by a frantic phone call from the brother he no longer knows. Banks is unaware that the threads connecting a sinister kidnapping with a savage slaying are as thick as rope . . . and long enough for a haunted and broken rogue cop to hang himself.

Playing with fire

Alltså, de är så bra de här böckerna!

Playing With Fire is the fourteenth novel in Peter Robinson's Inspector Banks series, following on from The Summer That Never Was.In the early hours of a cold January morning, two narrow boats catch fire on the dead-end stretch of the Eastvale canal. When signs of accelerant are found at the scene, DCI Banks and DI Annie Cabbot are summoned. But by the time they arrive, only the smouldering wreckage is left, and human remains have been found on both boats. The evidence points towards a deliberate attack. But who was the intended victim? Was it Tina, the sixteen-year-old who had been living a drug-fuelled existence with her boyfriend? Or was it Tom, the mysterious, lonely artist? As Banks makes his enquiries, it appears that a number of people are acting suspiciously: the interfering 'lock-keeper', Tina's cold-hearted step-father, the wily local art dealer, even Tina's boyfriend . . . Then the arsonist strikes again, and Banks's powers of investigation are tested to the limit . .

The Summer That Never Was

A skeleton has been unearthed. Soon the body is identified, and the horrific discovery hits the headlines.
Fourteen-year-old Graham Marshall went missing during his paper round in 1965. The police found no trace of him. His disappearance left his family shattered, and his best friend, Alan Banks, full of guilt.
That friend has now become Chief Inspector Alan Banks, and he is determined to bring justice for Graham. But he soon realizes that in this case, the boundary between victim and perpetrator, between law-guardian and law-breaker, is becoming more and more blurred.

Jättebra, som alltid. jag gillar verkligen dessa böcker och kommer att fortsätta med nästa direkt.

Mina döttrars systrar

Efter att ha varit försvunnen i åtta år återfinns Lucy på ett sjukhus i New York. I hopp om att hon ska vakna ur medvetslösheten berättar hennes systrar Annie och Mimmi för henne om sina liv i Stockholm.
Annie berättar historien om en duktig men osäker flicka som levt sitt liv som fastfrusen i obestämd väntan på något. När hon en dag finner kärleken och vill adoptera ett barn märker hon att de två önskningarna är oförenliga. Mimmis liv har handlat om olika sätt att fly, både från sig själv och från sin omgivning. Lucy rymmer från en kvävande familj och kanske något ännu värre. Det blir berättelser om att våga ta emot kärleken när den dyker upp i annorlunda skepnad, om skrivandets makt och ansvar, om samhällets osynliga förväntningar och skavande roller samt om ett oväntat lyckligt parhusliv.

En bok som var okej på så sätt att jag ville läsa klart den. Men det var lite underligt dysfunktionella människor i den som var ganska obehagliga, tycker jag.

The Soldier's Wife

The soldiers are coming home - after six months in Afghanistan. Surely being reunited with their wives and girlfriends and families will be heaven, after the hell they have been through. When Dan Riley returns to his adored wife, Alexa, and their children, his Army life still comes first. Alexa thought she was prepared to help him, and the whole family, to make the transition to normal life again - but no-one had told her how lonely and near impossible the task would be. Does marrying a soldier always have to mean that you are not marrying a man, but a regiment?

Detta var en relationsroman som var riktigt spännande. Hur skulle det gå?! Känns skönt att lämna fantasyn och deckarna ett tag. Det var ju flera år sen jag läste den här typen av böcker.

Under ytan

Carrie Bell är tjugotre år och har varit tillsammans med Mike Mayer i åtta år. Ett självklart par i allas ögon, men i bilen på väg mot Clausens Pier och den årliga vårpicknicken med gamla kompisar vill Carrie göra slut på deras relation. Innan hon hinner säga något dyker Mike från piren ner i det oväntat grunda vattnet.
På ett ögonblick förändras deras värld. När Mike vaknar upp ur sin koma är han förlamad från midjan och neråt. Han är för alltid rullstolsbunden och Carries stora dilemma är om hon ska stanna kvar hos honom eller gå vidare med sitt eget liv.

Efter en sommar med täta sjukhusbesök och dåligt samvete packar Carrie sin bil och utan att berätta för någon åker hon till New York.
I New York möter Carrie Kilroy, en vuxen man med stark integritet och upplever för första gången en sinnlig och djup kärlek. - Men en dag ringer telefonen…

Det var många år sen jag läste en vanlig roman, alltså en bok som inte är en deckare eller fantasy. Det var också många år sen jag läste en bok på svenska. Numera köper jag aldrig översatta böcker (från engelska alltså. Andra språk behöver jag få översatt), men den här har stått i bokhyllan ett tag.

Career of Evil

When a mysterious package is delivered to Robin Ellacott, she is horrified to discover that it contains a woman's severed leg. Her boss, private detective Cormoran Strike, is less surprised but no less alarmed. There are four people from his past who he thinks could be responsible - and Strike knows that any one of them is capable of sustained and unspeakable brutality. With the police focusing on the one suspect Strike is increasingly sure is not the perpetrator, he and Robin take matters into their own hands, and delve into the dark and twisted worlds of the other three men. But as more horrendous acts occur, time is running out for the two of them.

Väldigt spännande bok. BBC har gjort en TV-serie av böckerna och första har släppts på DVD, så den har jag köpt! Jag är också glad över att bok 4 är på gång och att J.K. planerar att göra många fler!