Tag: The Silence of the Lambs

🏅Top Shelf Tuesday 🏅

Happy Tuesday everyone!

This week’s pick is:

No Man Left Behind (Iris Williams & Annette Toni)
R.G. Miller
Police Procedural, Thriller
Kindle
Published 7/24/2017

I received this book in 2018 as a Goodreads giveaway. The short blurb grabbed my attention immediately!

“He lurks in the abandon subway tunnel under New York City. An Ex-Marine who was left to die in the steaming jungles of Vietnam in 1975 by his commanding officer.
Homicide Detective Iris Williams had thought she seen it all until she and her partner and lover Detective Annette Toni are called in to investigate a horrific murder of an entire family. The case becomes a nightmare for the detectives as they crawl deeper and deeper into the mind of a man that the media is calling, THE PIGGYBACK KILLER.”

I found a spot for it right away in the reading challenge I was completing that year, the prompt: A book with a LGBTQ+ protagonist. This book really did have everything in it for me. I love the characters, Homicide Detectives Iris Williams and Annette Toni. Who doesn’t love a powerful, smart, beautiful lead woman?! How about two!? As a girl I wanted to become a homicide detective myself, actually full disclosure I wanted to work for the FBI in the BAU. Thanks Clarice Starling! 🤣 I was even enrolled at Saint Cloud State University with a major in Criminal Justice and a minor in Psychology; but life takes their own turns sometimes.

Anyway… so I have a proclivity towards books with strong female detectives, special agents, or private investigators. I’m sure you have seen a trend. If you like those brutal, graphic murder thrillers like The Silence of the Lambs, like I do, then you will enjoy this one too.

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S is for ….

S is for …. Seriously Substantial Selection

This is why “s” is my first letter picked when playing hang man! And what a variety there is here too! This is definitely a good representation of my reading style, I enjoy just about anything!

A few of my favs:

Skipping Christmas – The Kranks daughter will be away for Christmas so they decide to skip it, save the money and take a cruise instead. But things never go as planned.

Shutter Island – U.S. Marshals Teddy and Chuck are investigated an escaped patient from Ashecliffe Hospital on Shutter Island. They start to find out there is more going on here than a missing patient.

The Silence of the Lambs – FBI Trainee Clarice Starling seeks the help of cannibal serial killer, psychiatrist Hannibal Lector to find another killer. However Lector won’t give his expertise away for free, there is always a price, quid pro quo.

Looking Forward to:

A Summer to Remember – A journey along a path revealing buried family secrets, betrayals between lovers, bonds between friends. And for Frankie, as the past unlocks the present, the chance to learn that memories define who we are, and that they can show us the meaning of home and the magic of true love.

The Smiling Man – Detective Waits and his partner are called to a murder. There they find the body of a man. He is dead. And he is smiling. The tags have been removed from the man’s clothes. His teeth filed down and replaced. Even his fingertips are not his own. Only a patch sewn into the inside of his trousers gives any indication as to who he was, and to the desperate last act of his life…

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