Great writer, loved the Mars Series....
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Knots and Crosses by Ian Rankin.
The first new fiction book in a long while.
If this goes well, I may have more than a dozen additional Inspector Rebus books waiting for me at the library. If it doesn't, I will try Raymond Chandlers' Philip Marlowe novels.
The wife bought me a paperwhite Kindle for Xmas and I have started devouring "The Game of Thrones", so far I am loving both the paperwhite and the new books.
Rankin is quality. I'm a bit biased because Edinburgh is one of my favourite cities, but he has become one of my favourite authors.
In a similar (I hope) vein, I picked up "Eye for an Eye" by T. Frank Muir today. It is also a crime novel, but set in St Andrews, my home away from home up the coast from Edinburgh where I spent six years as a grad student. I took a quick peek at the preface and was happy to see one of my pubs mentioned already, so it definitely has potential. :)
Just finished:
THE ETHOS EFFECT
L.E. Modesitt, Jr.
Set in the same universe as "The Parafaith War, "--but two centuries later--"The Ethos Factor" is the story of Commander Albert, a brave and resourceful officer who once defeated a larger enemy ship but caused the loss of a civilian liner in the process.
Again a very far future novel, written ten years ahead of, and speaking to our current dilemmas. Ethics!~
~Richard
If this might be your first outing with Raymond Chandler....I recommend skipping Ian Rankin for now (a fine author) and beginning at the beginning....Chandler (or the reverse, Hammett), then to Dashiell Hammett. Great writing is never dated, including noir fiction.
Just finished a novella by Haruki Murakami: The Strange Library, not a new novella but an extraordinary edition of a book written by one of my favorite authors. Now into Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer...jury is out on this one....
Just started 'Storm Front' by Jim Butcher...Started reading these because of a post here of course. Quite good, though I'm only a few chapters in, I expect it won't get any worse. ;)
Mick