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Old 03-21-2014, 02:55 PM   #19311
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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.
I started the third in this trilogy as soon as I finished this one, Sean Duffy is delightfully flawed and the '80s Irish setting is fascinating and horrifying at the same time, like watching a trainwreck.

I also listened to Scurvy by Stephen Bown/Dan Cashman, a pretty interesting look at "The Age of Sail" and the mysterious illness that claimed millions of lives.

I realized that I neglected to mention a few others I've finished recently, Lightning by Dean Koontz, Flying Too High by Kerry Greenwood, and Daybreak by Viktor Amas Ingolfsson. The first was a little dull and I found it difficult to buy the premise, the second was flapper Phryne Fisher to the rescue which is always fun, the third was a tense murder mystery set in Iceland which focused on goose hunters, slow at the start, but it picked up momentum.
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