March 24, 2012

AGATHA RAISIN AND THE WELLSPRING OF DEATH (1998) by M. C. Beaton

Book 7 of the Agatha Raisin series.....







Book 27 of 2012

March 21, 2012

ANARCHY AND OLD DOGS (2007) by Colin Cotterill

Dr. Siri Paiboun, the 70-something national coroner, Nurse Dtui, and Geung, a developmentally challenged morgue assistant, in 1970s Laos. A lot of humor you would not expect with this topic.
This is book book 4 of 8 in the series so far.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Cotterill_Colin.html

Book 26 of 2012

March 19, 2012

A SHARE IN DEATH (1993) by Deborah Crombie

Starting this one today. It's the first in Crombe's 14-book series about Scotland Yard Supt. Duncan Kincaid and Sgt. Gemma James. Takes place in England

(We know all this from MaineDem already, I know)



http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Crombie_Deborah.html



Book 25

March 16, 2012

A HIGHLAND CHRISTMAS (1999) by M. C. Beaton

A wee book, only about 120 pages. Polished it off in a couple of hours (just in time for Easter)...

Book 16 about Hamish MacBeth.

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

Book 23

March 14, 2012

JAR CITY (2004) by Arnaldur Indridason

Erlendur Sveinsson, a detective inspector, and his colleagues Sigurdur Oli and Elinborg, in Reykjavik, Iceland

Book 1 of about 11 - not all translated into English at this time.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/A_Authors/Arnaldur-Indridason.html

Book 22 of 2012

March 13, 2012

AGATHA RAISIN AND THE TERRIBLE TOURIST (1997) by M. C. Beaton

Sixth in the series - takes place in England

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


Book 21 of 2012

March 12, 2012

A CORPSE IN THE KORYO (2006) by James Church

First in the series about "Inspector O" - takes place in current day Pyongyang, capital of Korea. They have a police force that solves crimes, murders, etc., just as we have even tho they are communists, but they have a lot more "red" tape. Lots of different bureaucracies make investigating dangerous, not to mention, it makes confusing reading. (Please bring back Spellcheck)

Interesting, but I had to read up on Korean history in Wikipedia a bit to understand what's going on. I'm enjoying it.

James Church is a pseudonym of a former US intelligence agent.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/C_Authors/Church_James.html

Lydia Leftcoast recommended this author...

Book 20 of 2012

March 9, 2012

DEATH OF A SCRIPTWRITER (1998) by M. C. Beaton

Book 19 of 2012

March 3, 2012

AN ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING (1985) by Reginald Hill

The 2nd in the series with Supt. Andrew Dalziel and and Sgt. Peter Pasco, police inspectors in Yorkshire, England.

http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/H_Authors/Hill_Reginald.html

There are quite a few to go. The reviews in Amazon said that this one wasn't one of his best, but a good way to get to know the characters...they get better..

Book 18 of 2012; didn't count Dead Floating Lovers

Hard to concentrate on reading - strong wind blowing - so far, so good here - Poor Indiana

March 3, 2012

Got as far as page 22. Not for me

Don't know why, just didn't care for it.......