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Just finished "Last Ditch" by Ngaio Marsh, the 29th book in the "Inspector Alleyn" series. A young woman is killed, apparently in a horse riding accident, and Alleyn's son, a young writer, witnesses the event. Is all as it seems, and what, if any, is the connection with a local artist?
Pretty good, although not up to the quite exceptional standards of the previous book in the series, "Black As He's Painted". Almost at the end of the series now - only 3 books to go. Marsh shows absolutely no sign of deteriorating with age - a striking contrast with the truly dire books which Agatha Christie wrote (and really shouldn't have) in her final years.
On next to "Voyage", by Stephen Baxter - hard SF at its best. An "alternate history" book in which NASA pressed on from the Apollo moon landings with an ambitious programme to carry out a manned mission to Mars.
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