Sunday Salon: reading ideas

Some reading recommendations for Sunday Salonists:

I've recently discovered a delightful blog straight after my own heart. It is called Mysteries in Paradise. Here, blogger Kerrie reviews Susan Hill's The Pure in Heart, the second Simon Serrallier novel. I enjoyed the first, The Various Haunts of Men, and have a copy of the third, The Risk of Darkness, thanks to Karen of Euro Crime. All that remains is for me, an orderly soul, to read the second, so I'll obtain a copy get on to that forthwith. What was stopping me from continuing with the series, I think, was the shocking end to "Various haunts". Kerrie's review, earlier post and comments have made me resolve to read on.

My pseudonymous friend and devoted carer of Oscar, CrimeFicReader, here reviews Roger Morris's second book, A Vengeful Longing. I haven't read it or the first, possibly because historical fiction is not my top priority from the many excellent books demanding my reading attention. On the basis of the It's a Crime! review, I should probably change my mind. The review also provides details of a Hampstead crime evening featuring Roger Morris and other authors, on 7 February.

Author Martin Edwards here writes about Dorothy L. Sayers's books, in particular his favourite, Have His Carcase. I loved all these books as a child, reading the old yellow editions from the library several times over. One day.....a re-read?

Declan Burke of Crime Always Pays is rather taken with the cover of Cat Trap, by K. T. McCaffrey. The story sounds pretty good, too.

And Norman Price of Crime Scraps here provides the rationale-in-brief for his five favourite Euro Crime reads of 2007. You can't go wrong with these books -- or at least the four that I've read -- the fifth is a Ken Bruen about which I constantly hear such good things that I'm sure it deserves its place in this pantheon.

Comments

[Ann Darnton]

I envy you still having the two Susan Hill books to read, but do get hold of a copy of the second one before reading 'The Risk of Darkness' or you will find that various elements in that don't really make sense.

[Kerrie Smith]

And I'm so glad that we've discovered we share a lot of reading DNA Maxine.
If you decide to read A VENGEFUL LONGING, you'll have to read A GENTLE AXE first, or it won't make sense...
That pesky read-things-in-order gene makes it almost impossible for me to read books out of order - if I do I find myself constantly confused when I read an earlier book and my mental timelines get out of whack!

[crimeficreader]

Thanks Maxine, Oscar's doing OK right now. I love him to the ends of this earth, but I know we have limited time; how long I am not sure.

Every day is a bonus!

[crimeficreader]

Thanks for the link, Maxine.

Oscar is doing well right now; he's almost back to what he was before that 36 hr period over the new year. What a boy and what a darling!

I watch his every waking hour, when I can.

God bless my lovely gorgeous boy!

[Maxine]

He's very lucky to have you to care for him, CrimeFic. Glad he is doing OK.