Thursday, December 15, 2011

Book 69.5: Second Son by Lee Child

A short Jack Reacher story.  It's set when Reacher is young and his family gets stationed in Japan.  He has to solve a couple of mysteries as well as prove to the other Army brats that he isn't someone to mess around with.

Book 69: Worth Dying For by Lee Child

Jack Reacher book 16 or so.  Jack stumbles onto a town where one family pretty much monopolizes everything.  He encounters a case of spousal abuse, gets involved and the mystery starts from there.  The creepy family has a creepy past and they do some creepy stuff.  Jack gets tangled up in it all and has to fix the problems because he's just that kind of a guy.  Typical, but man, I love these things.

Book 68: Hell House by Richard Matheson

This is probably my favorite haunted house book.  Some old dude pays a noted paranormal investigator to stay at the most famous haunted house in the country.  The investigator is your typical scientific skeptic who thinks it can all be explained away by science, not ghosts.  He brings along his wife who is pretty sheltered, a famous psychic lady, and another psychic who, when he was a boy was the only survivor of a previous attempt to study the house.  They get into your typical haunted house type of stuff where they learn about the history and who is haunting the house.  Some make it out and some don't.  Nothing earth shattering, but it's a good solid story by a good writer.