The Keys to the Kingdom Book Seven: Lord Sunday by Garth NixThis series comes to a catastrophic ending and I can't talk much about it without spoilers. So: V svtherq bhg gung gur nffrzoyrq jvyy jbhyq er-sbez gur Nepuvgrpg, ohg V pbhyq arire unir thrffrq va jung sbez be jul fur qvq guvatf guvf jnl. Abe qvq V nagvpvcngr gur qrfgehpgvba bs gur ( Read more... )

The Shadow Pavilion: a Detective Inspector Chen novel by Liz WilliamsMovie star Lara Chowdijharee is proving troublesome to her management, but she's too successful for them to just fire her. However, perhaps they can send her back to where she came from . . . when that proves to be a bad idea, her manager has to go on the run, finding protection ( Read more... )

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The Android's Dream by John Scalzi A bureaucrat farts out a deadly insult to a scent-sensitive alien race, leading Earth to the brink of war with a vastly more powerful empire. For even a hope of peace, the aliens want a sheep of a special breed designed especially for them, but all the animals both on the alien homeworld and ( Read more... )

( Follow the Toff by John Creasey )

( Appointment With Death by Agatha Christie )

( Drowned Wednesday by Garth Nix )

( Historians in Trouble by John Wiener )

Dumb Witness: a Hercule Poirot Novel by Agatha ChristieYes, it does sometimes seem like every second book I read is a Poirot novel. In this one, a letter arrives for Poirot, pleading for his help. It is postmarked two months after it was written. And the writer, an older woman, is now dead. Was she murdered? Who sent the letter? Will ( Read more... )

( The Ragwitch by Garth Nix )

Abhorsen by Garth Nix. Third book of a trilogy, or more accurately second half of the second book of a duology. Sabriel, Lirael and AbhorsenI'm trying to imagine what I could say about these books that would do them justice, in a thousand words or less. Nothing's coming to mind ( Read more... )