A Jack Taylor novel

"Stand on Zanzibar" - John Brunner. Also re-reading "Dance with Dragons" - Martin. Next on the list, a book I picked up at Thrift Store - know nothing about it - "The Monster of Florence" - Preston/Spezi. (I think the last is non-fiction)

26th book in Policeman Hamish Macbeth series in Scottish Highlands....



Book 87 of 2012

At my age this is truely fiction.

You're among friends...don't be shy

Spends more time than most in the series focusing on Stephen's intelligence activities instead of Jack's Naval adventures.

Going through them sequentially is revealing/reminding me of the odd way, sometimes, that O'Brian broke up the overall narrative, either just stopping abruptly (_The Ionian Mission_) or going on a fair chunk past the logical ending point (_Post Captain_). In some way, this might go with his writing style of detailed attention for a while, then jumping as far as he can reasonably and only give the reader a couple of sentence sketch to fill in the gap. Kinda like driving to work: you pay attention at certain spots, while other stretches go by without much notice.

Seventeenth book of the Agatha Raisin Mystery Series (England)...





Book 88 of 2012

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Twenty-seventh book of the Hamish Macbeth series - Scottish Highlands.

Hamish is a tall skinny man who loves fishing, animals and the Highlands. He has a real "wildcat" and an ugly dog with blue eyes. He loves the ladies, and the author will not permit his relationship with the character she gave him to love, to progress. He is macho. Besides murderers, his chief antagonist is another copper and minor complaints come from the villagers who say he's a moocher and lazy. This first book in the series is a good one.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/B_Authors/Beaton_M-C.html

One more to go, then I'm done with what Beaton has written as far as this character goes...

Book 89 of 2012
(Beaton books are usually 200-250 pp in length so it's easy to rack up a pile)

depicts the more squalid aspects of life in New York City in 1845. One of the first official New York cops encounters a little girl running hysterically down the street clad only in a blood-soaked nightgown.

Purse book: Killer's Island by Anna Jansson, a Swedish mystery in the "Maria Wern" series (viewers of MHz Worldview TV will know that name) about the interlocking lives of six people, the first of whom is Maria Wern, a policewoman who happens upon three grown men beating a teenage boy.

Eighteenth of Agatha Raisin series - and I didn' care for it. New character, young girl named Toni, who looks like she may be a permanant character. Agatha just wasn't quite herself...






Book 90 of 2012