In the Bleak Midwinter (Spencer-Fleming)

[charlie_ego]

4/5. Mystery. (Male) cop and (female) priest, and together, they fight crime! Okay, that's a very simplified summary, but this is what D got out of my slightly hysterical summary of it late at night after finishing it

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[joyce]

I read that book and loved it, and it was so intense I haven't continued the series. I think it's time, though; I read that they just keep getting better.

[charlie_ego]

So I've now read books 2 and 5 (3 and 4 weren't at the library, but 5 was, and I couldn't wait.) I didn't like book 2 quite as well, though it was still quite good (especially the ending, I thought), and whoa, if you thought book 1 was intense, 5 (All Mortal Flesh) is like... a supernova. Seriously, save it for sometime when you're not looking for a light fluffy read, because (although it's fast and compulsively readable, of course) it's not light. At all.

(I don't really recommend reading them out of order like I did, either. I can see how reading books 3 and 4 before 5 would really have enhanced the experience, because she's writing about a community that just gets more layered with each book.)