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Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris
Not a sequel to Shakespeare's Trollop, but the first Lily Bard mystery. Lily has moved to Shakespeare, bought her house, and met most of the cast of characters. When she goes for one of her late-night walks, though, she encounters someone moving a body--the titular landlord, owner of the apartment building near Lily's house and the man she bought the house from. Of course, she can't help but get caught up in the investigation.
A slight warning: Lily's rape is described in more detail in this volume, with associated trigger-risk. Otherwise, recommended.
Song of Susannah: the Dark Tower VI by Stephen King
By the time book six of a series comes out, there's almost nothing you can say about it that won't spoil something for someone who hasn't read the earlier volumes; on the other hand, by waiting for the Mass Market Paperback editions I've almost guaranteed that anyone else who was interested in these has already read them.
So: in the wake of the battle with the Wolves, Roland and his team are forced to deal with Susannah's problems. They travel back to modern New York and to 1970s Maine, where Roland Deschaines confronts his maker. I'm a little dubious about that part; it strikes me as unnecessary, but it's done.
Recommendation? If you've gone this far, you're gonna finish it. If you haven't? Well, I like it. You gotta start at the beginning, though.
The Disappeared: a retrieval artist novel by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
It is the future; an indeterminant time but far enough for humanity to have spread through the stars and encountered various extra-terrestrial aliens. Miles Flint is a new detective in the Luna police force, and is faced with several cases in quick succession, each of which has to do with the relations between humans and aliens: one group of aliens of one species has invaded a space yacht in orbit of the moon and slaughtered all the inhabitants, something they are allowed to do under treaties with Earth if the people have committed certain offenses against them. Case closed. Another group of a different species has been caught with a group of children they have kidnapped from their parents, something they are allowed to do, etc. And a woman arrives alone in an expensive yacht, frightened of yet a third group of aliens who are after her for unspecified crimes--something she is careful not to let the police know until she has escaped into the domes of the Moon--someplace where she should be easy to track down, but she proves unexpectedly resourceful.
Miles is frustrated; it seems that every law is being enforced in the solar system except those of Earth. But what can he do about it?
Rusch has certainly created an interesting world, but it's a frustratingly nasty one, in which alien justice is allowed to ride roughshod over what we in western Terra consider justice. While the characters, who after all are police, are frustrated by the situation too, this doesn't for me sufficiently ameliorate the negativity of the overall situation. I did not enjoy this book at all, and I cannot recommend it.