I've not been blogging much recently - definitely boring myself witless.
Easter has been a good one (notwithstanding a new car which has meant we've been a little too prone to "oh let's just jump in the car and head over to....), but more positively, it's been a time to do some serious reading. And himself's overseas for a week from next Sunday, so that's normally a good time for some more serious reading. But there's some great books around at the moment which I've been lucky enough to get into to.
Where I've been recently:
Mornington Peninsula: Garry Disher's Blood Moon was tremendous - I wasn't too convinced one way or the other on the early couple of books in the Hal Challis series - too discombobulated by the Waterloo thing (drove through the real one for me the other day - the one just outside Beaufort), but the later books have really hit their marks and Blood Moon is just another step forward for the series - get hold of it if you haven't read it yet. Highly Recommended.
Berlin: I've also been reading the second Franz Schmidt book - The Iron Heart by Marshall Browne. Browne is one of those authors who has been slogging away forever it seems, but he doesn't seem to get much recognition here, where he actually lives. Typical. Anyway this was a good book - and I'll get my review published asap.
Sydney: Then Camilla Nelson's first book - Crooked, which is set in 1960's gangster Sydney. The blurb unfortunately uses that oft-used word around these parts "underbelly". It is obviously set in a true time and one would be forgiven for assuming uses some well-known characterisations from the time, maybe even some known crimes (not being an expert on 1960's goings on in Sydney I can't say for sure), but still - it's a gangster style outing in an Australian setting - should be interesting to finish that.
England: I've also finished Off Track by Clare Curzon which I've been reading for quite a while now. I think I was possibly thrown totally by the central point of the story. Review to come.
England: Then onto Still Waters by Judith Cutler (another of the "Still Waters" in my rapidly growing collection), this features DCS Fran Harman - I read an earlier book in this series a little while ago, so there's some familiar territory here.
Note to self - what to read next:
Beautiful Death, Fiona McIntosh (follow on from Bye Bye Baby / Lauren Crow); Old City Hall, Robert Rotenberg; A Decent Ransom, Ivana Hruba; Pelagia & The Red Rooster, Boris Akunin; Curse of the Pogo Stick, Colin Cotterill; Storm Peak, John A Flanagan; The Redeemer, Jo Nesbø; Once Were Cops, Ken Bruen.
or something else completely different.