Crime and more crime this month – In fact 10 out of the 13 that I’d reserved are crime and turned up all at once.
I think I requested that fat red book by Ken Follet because it has the Sutton Hoo Helmet on the cover! it’s an historical novel of the sort that I used to often read, although it’s actually set in the Viking period. I’ve not read any of his books before.
Also there are books by authors I know = three Donna Leon, Deborah Crombie, Margery Allingham, Anthony Berkeley, John Dickson Carr and Mike Ripley. Mark Pryor is a new-to-me crime author and ‘Lucy by the Sea’ by Elizabeth Strout is a book I know nothing about – must have seen it on someone’s blog and the smallest book there is Pharmacopeia; A Dungeness notebook by Derek Jarman which Pat Weaver of Grass mentioned a while ago.
After a wet Friday and a stay at home Saturday I’ve already finished the crime novel by Deborah Crombie. I have enjoyed all this series (there are lots) but get annoyed with each one because the author is American but the books are set in London, the characters are English and every now and again words are used that we don’t use here – it grates every time! And do we really still have chestnut sellers on the streets of London at Christmas?
Last month I collected these 15 books below but only read eight. I discovered I’d already read the children’s book ‘October, October’ and couldn’t get into several of the others.
‘The Words I never Wrote’ was really good as was ‘The Bird in Winter’. There’s a bit about the books I read on the separate Books Read 2023 page.
