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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Next up: A re-read for a book group: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths. The first in her Dr Ruth Galloway series.
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Which was better than I remembered. Although a few oddities with the police procedure!
After that I raced through several books by Seanan McGuire in her October Daye and Incryptid series:
The Brightest Fell,
Night and Silence, and
Chaos Choreography. All good fun.
Then a recent buy:
The Death of Nnanji. A very good late fourth book for his Seventh Sword trilogy. Enjoyable, and didn't mess up the earlier books.
Most recently finished was
A Desperate Undertaking by Lindsey Davis. The tenth in her Flavia Albia series. It starts off with an unnecessary first chapter which is then recapitulated in correct choronological order later. There's a very odd reference to golden age detective story tropes. On the whole, a bit odd, and too many of Albia's internal musings are anachronistic.
I also thought that given the common spectacles in Rome, her squeamishness and that of some of the other characters in here was overplayed.
Next up:
The Wages of Sin by Harry Turtledove. A near-past (for Harry) alternate history in the 19th Century. A freebie from Phoenix Pick.