Mondays: Mailbox/Musings/Whereabouts

Monday Mailbox is hosted by Marcia.

I received two books:

The Rule Book by Rob Kitchin

April in the Wicklow mountains and a young woman is found dead, seemingly sacrificed.Accompanying her body is Chapter One of The Rule Book – a self-help guide for prospective serial killers. Less than twenty four hours later a second murder is committed. Self-claiming the title ‘The Raven’, the killer starts to taunt the police and the media. When the third body is discovered it is clear that The Raven intends to slaughter one victim each day until The Rule Book is published in full. With the pressure from his superiors, the press, and politicians rising, McEvoy stumbles after a killer that is seemingly several steps ahead.

Snowbound by Blake Crouch

For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother, vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway and, suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled. Then one night, a hard edged FBI agent appears on their doorstep and says, I know you’re innocent, because Rachael wasn’t the first… or the last.."

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In the past week:

I finished:

A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller
The Rule Book by Rob Kitchin
Snowbound by Blake Crouch

I am in the midst of reading:

too many books

I posted reviews of:

A Summer Secret by Kathleen Fuller
Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Colony by Anne Rivers Siddons
The Cold Room by J T Ellison
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

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Do you ever read a word or phrase that sparks a specific place or setting in your mind and makes you crave to read a book with that type of place/setting in it?

I like books based in the countryside, beaches, mountains. In other words, which are in commune with nature. I tink all of us want to be near nature in one form or other, especially for those who live in concrete jungles, like I do. (BTW, I live in Delhi). It is not to say I don't like books based in such places. Whatever book I read takes me into a journey. A new journey everytime. With reading, we become world travellers. Therefore, any book with good setting is a spark, for me to read it till the end.