I heard the recent novels were not as compelling reads.

But I agree I have outgrown Doc Ford and Tomlinson. Randy Wayne White has those two locked into a time warp and neither of the two main characters have matured during the series. I fear I am done with Doc and Tomlinson

The sequel to "The Pillars of the Earth" is my purse book. It takes place in the same town as "Pillars," only about 200 years later.

My bedside book is "The Good German" by Joseph Kanon, about a journalist who goes to post-World War II Berlin, ostensibly to cover the Potsdam Conference but actually to find his pre-war lover. Then a G.I. is murdered in the Russian zone...

So far it has been a good read.

Enjoying it immensely so far.

I've just finished Bangkok 8, by John Burdett. It was a nice, easygoing book to wedge between Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies.

by Henning Menkel. He wrote the Wallander crime series. This is a stand alone novel and I highly recommend it. Although it is fiction it addresses modern day Nazism and how it still exists only using different names and different tactics.

This week I am reading an old classic, Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

I finally finished War and Peace. I just want that on record.

A Virgil Flowers centered case as opposed t o Lucas Davenport.

Crisply written, nice info and complexities, dialogue driven.

Enjoyed it greatly, thanks to local library.

Next up - Misery Bay by Steve Hamilton, a Michigan (yea) writer.

It's one of Martini's Paul Madriani series. Only about a quarter of the way in but it's pretty good.

What haven't I been reading!?

Crypt of Souls, Handra's Tomb (The Sinclair Saga) Lori Lebda
Last Plane out of Paris: Collectors Edition Paul Moxham
The Sixth Wife (A Novella) Laura Lond I like this one quite a bit
Two for Eternity Carl Alves Excellent
Blood and Sunlight: A Maryland Vampire Story Jamie Wasserman
Angel Moon (Blood and Sunlight) Jamie Wasserman YA, better than Twilight by a mile
Myth Weaver David J. Normoyle also very good, but might be better if you brush up on Greek and Roman Mythology first. I had to look up a few of the gods cause I couldn't remember their stories.

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just started Ameristocracy by Paul Moxham,
A Political Thriller That Could Be True...
When a conspiracy theorist cop stumbles upon the secret society responsible for the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy, he becomes convinced that they now have the newly elected President squarely in their cross-hairs. But with the clock ticking and danger lurking around every corner, the truth proves to be much closer to him than he ever imagined.

13th in Agatha Raisin mystery series - Takes place in England..


Book 68 of 2012

14th in the Agatha Raisin series. Notable because this is the one where she says at the end of the book that she's going to open her own private detective agency. We'll see what happens in the next book...

Book 69 of 2012

Book 22 of the Hamish Macbeth mystery series. Takes place in the Scottish Highlands...

My book 70 of 2012

Finished w/ Tey, and highly recommend.

Welcome to Fiction.....

It's set in a futuristic Vancouver, which has been devastated by global climate change (rising sea levels), disease, and economic collapse. This is my second time trying to read it. The first time it was too depressing for personal reasons, but I was determined to try again. It's going much better this time.

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I can see why they say he's the best German language detective novelist ever. Friedrich Glauser, that is.


Dang. They're all gone. Felt the same way after the last Charlie Chan, the last Philo Vance, and so on. You get attached to these characters. Friedrich Glauser died the day before he was going to get married. Just lost his nerve, I guess.