Murder From the Other Side Monday
What I've Finished Reading
The Seven Dials Mystery was pure fluff and even sillier than I remembered. Bundle gets an embarrassing Mr. Collins-style proposal from some dude she's been trying to wheedle information from, and it's great. That's what you get for pretending to be interested in politics, Bundle! I like Superintendent Battle so it was a little sad to see him drop a remark about "bad blood" at the end, but what can you do? This book also features bad American accents, my favorite! You can tell that the American characters would fit right in on an episode of Doctor Who. Will there be any more books featuring Bundle and her easily distracted but otherwise harmless dad? I don't remember, but I know there is at least one more with Inspector Battle, Toward Zero. The rest of the characters I could take or leave, but they have a lot of fun during their brief existence and there's nothing wrong with being ephemeral.
What I'm Reading Now
I've just started The Sittaford Mystery. A load of people are hanging around at a house, like you do, and they decide to do a little table-rapping. It's all fun and games until someone spells the word MURDER. Has one of their friends really gone and been murdered, and in the middle of a snowstorm, too? Well, what do you think?
Also: Blood Red Turns Dollar Green by Paul O'Brien. A crime thriller set in the world of 1970s pro wrestling! This one wastes no time at all: there's an attempted murder of two top-billed wrestlers, with grisly consequences, on Page 2. I'm not sure how I feel about it so far - the writing is a little aggressively clunky and shouty, but I can't tell yet if that's a minor flaw or a successful evocation of pro-wrestling storytelling style. We'll see!
What I Plan to Read Next
Giant's Bread has arrived! I feel like it's been a long wait, but non-murder Christie is next! Though the paperback edition I got calls it "a tale of romantic obsession," so who knows but that there might be a little murder around the edges? You can't trust the romantically obsessed.
The Seven Dials Mystery was pure fluff and even sillier than I remembered. Bundle gets an embarrassing Mr. Collins-style proposal from some dude she's been trying to wheedle information from, and it's great. That's what you get for pretending to be interested in politics, Bundle! I like Superintendent Battle so it was a little sad to see him drop a remark about "bad blood" at the end, but what can you do? This book also features bad American accents, my favorite! You can tell that the American characters would fit right in on an episode of Doctor Who. Will there be any more books featuring Bundle and her easily distracted but otherwise harmless dad? I don't remember, but I know there is at least one more with Inspector Battle, Toward Zero. The rest of the characters I could take or leave, but they have a lot of fun during their brief existence and there's nothing wrong with being ephemeral.
What I'm Reading Now
I've just started The Sittaford Mystery. A load of people are hanging around at a house, like you do, and they decide to do a little table-rapping. It's all fun and games until someone spells the word MURDER. Has one of their friends really gone and been murdered, and in the middle of a snowstorm, too? Well, what do you think?
Also: Blood Red Turns Dollar Green by Paul O'Brien. A crime thriller set in the world of 1970s pro wrestling! This one wastes no time at all: there's an attempted murder of two top-billed wrestlers, with grisly consequences, on Page 2. I'm not sure how I feel about it so far - the writing is a little aggressively clunky and shouty, but I can't tell yet if that's a minor flaw or a successful evocation of pro-wrestling storytelling style. We'll see!
What I Plan to Read Next
Giant's Bread has arrived! I feel like it's been a long wait, but non-murder Christie is next! Though the paperback edition I got calls it "a tale of romantic obsession," so who knows but that there might be a little murder around the edges? You can't trust the romantically obsessed.