Friday, November 12, 2010

Friday's Forgotten Books, November 12, 2010- 2

This is an unsolicited and wonderfully surprise contribution to Friday's Forgotten Books from Gerard Saylor, Library Director at Lake Mills Library in Wisconsin, who has quite a nice inventory of audio book reviews you can find on you tube. I went through them after seeing this one.

But this is his pick for this week, a forgotten writer, and a great change of pace. I am so happy he sent it our way. I think we will all be looking for these books. I am going to post the rest separately below.


10 comments:

  1. This was fun! I hope more contributors go video!

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  2. Anonymous9:10 AM

    Great choice. I've read and enjoyed the five Harstad books about Carl Houseman, all set in northeastern Iowa, and recommend them highly.

    Jeff M.

    PS - I can see George doing a video, perhaps from the stacks of the Kelley Collection.

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  3. Yes, George. It is time to go down in the vault. Diane can film it.

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  4. Anonymous9:24 AM

    Actually, there are 5 Harstad/Houseman titles so far:

    Eleven Days (1998)
    Known Dead (1999)
    Big Thaw (2000)
    Code 61 (2002)
    A Long December (2003)

    Jeff M.

    Come on, George - do it!

    You could be the mystery world's equivalent of John Goodman in Treme!

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  5. What a neat way to do it.

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  6. Gerard is a good guy (certainly fair) ... and if I didn't post this, he'd think I stopped stalking him.

    I loved the idea the author was pitching about whacking a few CEO's ... what a GREAT idea!

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  7. I sure hope he sells a few books after this nice tribute.

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  8. Anonymous1:47 PM

    Patti - What a great idea!!! Thanks for sharing this! He comes across well on the video, too.

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  9. Enjoyed this. What a great idea...I'm already thinking about dusting off my vid camera.

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  10. I can think of another very good mystery series set in small-town Iowa - the Sam McCain books by Ed Gorman.

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