The Devils: OK
In the afternoon I finished The Devils by Joe Abercrombie. In my opinion, the book had a good start but soon became repetitive. I was expecting more. My favourite Joe Abercrombie book is still Best Served Cold.
Lethal Prey
Doris Grandfelt, an employee at an accounting firm, was brutally stabbed to death . . . but nobody knew exactly where the crime took place. Her body was found the next night, dumped among a dense thicket of trees along the edge of an urban park, eight miles east of St. Paul, Minnesota. Despite her twin sister Lara Grandfelt’s persistent calls to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the killer was never found.
Twenty years later, Lara has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Confronted with the possibility of her own death, she’s determined to find Doris’s killer once and for all. Finally taking matters into her own hands, she dumps the entire investigative file on every true crime site in the world and offers a $5 million reward for information leading to the killer’s arrest. Dozens of true crime bloggers show up looking for both new evidence and “clicks,” and Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers are called in to review anything that might be a new lead.
When one of the bloggers locates the murder weapon, Lucas and Virgil begin to uncover vital details about the killer’s identity. But what they don’t know is the killer lurks in plain sight, and with the true crime bloggers blasting every clue online, the killer can keep one step ahead. As the nation maneuvers the detectives closer to the truth, Lucas and Virgil will find that digging up Doris’s harrowing past might just get them buried instead.
In the evening I started in Lethal Prey by John Sandford.
American Assassin (2017)
After the death of his girlfriend at the hands of terrorists, Mitch Rapp is drawn into the world of counterterrorism, mentored by tough-as-nails former U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Stan Hurley.
In the evening Alice, Esme, and I watched American Assassin. Halfway, Esme fell asleep. I liked the movie and give it a 7 out of 10.
Four scorpions arrived
In the afternoon the four scorpions I had ordered arrived. Shipped the 7th of July from Belgium, I was expecting them last Tuesday, Wednesday at the latest, so I was a bit worried with the heat and all. But all four, Tetratrichobothrius flavicaudis, turned out to be alive.
The scorpions where packed two per plastic container. While most species are cannibalistic luckily they where ok. I prepared four plastic enclosures with some moist coconut coir and a piece of cork for hiding. The scorpions came with some dried leaves, which I also used.
The first scorpion I transferred looked to me an adult female, possible gravid. And the second one an adult male. The other two scorpions also looked like one adult male and one adult (gravid) female.
To each terrarium I added a superworm for food.
The four scorpions were wild caught from a shed in France.