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I listened to The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway, a Canadian author I'd heard good things about. The snapshots of different people coping with the siege over a three week period during the war was heartbreaking, but I'm very glad I read this book. I'll be adding Galloway's other books to my to-be-read list.
I finished off another Agatha Christie, The mirror crack'd from side to side. Poor Miss Marple complains of her age a lot in this one (she should be well over 100 based on the publication date, although there are still a few more books to come). She still manages to help solve the poisoning at a fête at Gossington Hall, the country house of the original Miss Marple book.
I'm always looking for good thrillers, so I started reading A Field of Darkness by Cornelia Read which I picked up cheap at Kobo last year. I'm enjoying the yin and yang of old money mixing with redneck farmers and the protagonist is likeable.
My St. Patrick's day listen is the second in Adrian McKinty's DI Sean Duffy series set during Ireland's "Troubles", I Hear the Sirens in the Street. The Falkland's War has just broken out which will complicate the situation in Ireland when British troops are redeployed overseas. I enjoyed the first book enough to pick up the second and the recently released third of this series at Audible.
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