re: What are you reading?

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pretty sure it is the first in the Atlee Pine series, yeah?

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Yes. There are three Pine books.

Will finish Midnight Runner(Sean Dillon)by Jack Higgins and start Bad Company in the same series after. Count now stands around 76 so far in 2021.

Just finished A Gentleman in Moscow. It was a really enjoyable read.

Now starting If We Were Villains.

Just bought a copy of Faust. Will start that probably soon

Walk the Wire- David Baldacci

The Slaughterman's Daughter by Yaniv Iczkovits

If the Coen brothers ever ventured beyond the United States for their films, they would find ample material in this novel.
--The New York Times Book Review

Occasionally a book comes along so fresh, strange, and original that it seems peerless, utterly unprecedented. This is one of those books.
--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

**Winner of the 2021 Wingate Literary Prize**

An irresistible, picaresque tale of two Jewish sisters in late-nineteenth-century Russia, The Slaughterman's Daughter is filled with "boundless imagination and a vibrant style" (David Grossman).

With her reputation as a vilde chaya (wild animal), Fanny Keismann isn't like the other women in her shtetl in the Pale of Settlement--certainly not her obedient and anxiety-ridden sister, Mende, whose "philosopher" of a husband, Zvi-Meir, has run off to Minsk, abandoning her and their two children.

As a young girl, Fanny felt an inexorable pull toward her father's profession of ritual slaughterer and, under his reluctant guidance, became a master with a knife. And though she long ago gave up that unsuitable profession--she's now the wife of a cheesemaker and a mother of five--Fanny still keeps the knife tied to her right leg. Which might come in handy when, heedless of the dangers facing a Jewish woman traveling alone in czarist Russia, she sets off to track down Zvi-Meir and bring him home, with the help of the mute and mysterious ferryman Zizek Breshov, an ex-soldier with his own sensational past.

Yaniv Iczkovits spins a family drama into a far-reaching comedy of errors that will pit the czar's army against the Russian secret police and threaten the very foundations of the Russian Empire. The Slaughterman's Daughter is a rollicking and unforgettable work of fiction.
Goodreads

Later by Stephen King

The Sixth Man by David Baldacci (King & Maxwell #5)

Since my last post I've finished Without Mercy, The Killing Ground and Rough Justice. Now on A Darker Place. All Sean Dillon series by Jack Higgins.

Mountain Man series by Keith C Blackmore.

Good fun

Just finished Don Winslow's Neal Caray series (5)

Currently reading Woody Allen - Apropos of Nothing (Biography)