Last week I finished three books- two I'd been reading slowly for what seems like a very long time, and one that I just started last week.
The Teleportation Accident, by Ned Beauman, and
Equal Danger, by Leonardo Sciascia, were the two longer reads;
Equal Danger is a short book (about 120 pages) but it reads very, very slowly.
The Teleportation Accident was a book my husband recommended and while I enjoyed it, it just wasn't a page-turner for me. My quicker read was the delightful
The Coroner's Lunch, by Colin Cotterill, and I definitely have to read more in this series because I'm head over heels in love with Dr. Siri and his band of misfit sleuths.
This weekend I started Stav Sherez's very-good-indeed
A Dark Redemption, set alternately in London and Africa, the present and the past. An aspiring musician goes on a post-graduation trip with his buddies that goes horribly awry, and then years later he's a detective investigating a murder that may be related. Sherez seems like he's channeling Derek Raymond both in the quality of his writing and in the social conscience he brings to the work. I love it when crime novels are more than procedurals and read like fully-realized works of literature.
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I agree. I like mysteries (all books, really) that surprise me.
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A new mystery author for me! will be keeping a look out for this one.
ReplyDeleteI have read his noir mystery, The Black Monastery, and would certainly like this one too!
ReplyDeleteI always click on this post and hold my breath, knowing you likely will add another book to my list! I am waiting very impatiently for my new Kindle to show up in the mail, since I frigging lost my old one. Once it shows up, I'm going to have a bit of a virtual shopping binge, and Coroner's Lunch is going to be one of them.
ReplyDeleteI'm about ready to switch to mysteries again, and the Shav Sherez sounds good. I have never heard of him, so will look him up. I, too, like mysteries that have character development and strong themes.
ReplyDeleteI love that you introduce me to books that I probably wouldn't have heard about otherwise.
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