Vinyl Detective - The Run-Out Groove: Vinyl Detective 2

I have never been a jazz fan but this book helped me learn to enjoy it. It also taught me to appreciate vinyl and explore charity shops. I am now a total ran

This is a fun series aimed at those of us who love vinyl (and the sound that tops any other medium). And it's a pretty good mystery for mystery lovers.

After reading through, and enjoying, the first of the series, I couldn't wait to start in on the second. This book reunites Nevada with our hero, and together they go about chasing down some records and people from rock's history. Along the way there's lots of danger, skullduggery, grave robbing, and more! There's more character development for the main people in the series, as well as a bit more examination of vinyl's history along with some rock minutiae. There's the odd nod to the cats, coffee, and hi-fi, as expected.I enjoyed this book, but found it not quite as enticing and interesting as the first, but that's often because the characters are already familiar. There's absolutely no reason not to recommend The Run-Out Groove, and anyone who enjoyed the first book will like this one. I read through the book in a pleasant weekend laid out on my sofa, listening to my audio system while reading, and had a wonderful time enjoying my days. As soon as I finished this second book, I started in on the third, which just arrived.Enjoyable and interesting, and as with the first, nicely narrated and touches on some of my favorite side topics (audio, good coffee, cats, etc) which always adds to the fun!

LIBRAZO, igual que el primero. Lo recomiendo sin ninguna duda.Si te gusta la musica y te gusta las novelas de detectives es tu libro

Andrew Cartmel did it again -- once more after "Written in Dead Wax" he sends his nameless protagonist and alter ego on a wild-goose chase, this time not for a lost record, but for a lost child.If you enjoyed WiDW (like I did), you will also be glued to this book: An assembly of quirky characters, an ever-widening view on the convoluted past of a dead pop singer, all embedded in a string of sometimes comical, sometimes grotesque and sometimes serious episodes.At first, I was slightly disappointed by the ending which to me seemed to fall a little flat, but then I realized that the point of the book is not so much the criminal case -- the crime is just the matrix which carries Cartmel's story- and character telling. In this regard the Vinyl Detective stories are much like the Thin Man movies: The murder propels the action, but isn't at the heart of it.In short, buy the book, but make sure you've read WiDW first: Cartmel doesn't give a recap of the cast he introduced there, so without having read it, you might be a bit at a loss regarding characters like Tinkler and Stinky Stamner...