new book glee

[philomytha]

There's a special kind of joy in reading a book, enjoying it very much, then discovering it has a sequel, then realising it is the first in a series of nine books so far. My only problem now is that I have a lot of other things I'm supposed to be doing. Still, thanks to @sholio's post about spy thrillers, I remembered that I had At Risk, the first novel by Stella Rimington, ie the retired director of MI5, sitting on my shelf waiting for me to have some time for it. So I read it and loved it. It's a great thriller: the plot unfolds cleverly, the twists are good, the characters are briefly but vividly drawn, there's lots of detail about how the intelligence organisations work and it all feels, as you'd expect, very authentic. Liz Carlyle is an excellent main character, and my one complaint about the first book, that Liz felt a bit of a lone woman in a sea of men, was improved in the second book in which she has a female sidekick too. And I want to go and buy the third one right away, but I am going to hold it in reserve as a reward for me finishing some of the more tedious jobs I have piling up.

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