I enjoy my mysteries (love Cadfael as well) and it's always a disappointment having to stop reading a book before the end. Since there's no murder yet, you don't even have to peek at the end to find out whodunit.
After spending much too much time online reading fanfic, I came home with the most recent books from 2 reliable authors, JD Robb and Joanne Fluke. Two very different styles of protagonists. It's a change to have a real book in my hands again. No kindles or ereaders for me so my online reading has to be done sitting in front of the monitor attached to my old style desktop computer. :)
Since there's no murder yet, you don't even have to peek at the end to find out whodunit.
One advantage of ebooks - it's much harder to do that without losing your place, so I'm less tempted ;)
No kindles or ereaders for me so my online reading has to be done sitting in front of the monitor attached to my old style desktop computer. :)
Oddly, I don't mind reading fanfiction or short pieces on a monitor but for actual books I prefer a handheld device or an actual paper tome. One of my personal quirks :)
If you like Brother Cadfael you probably would like the 'Sister Fidelma' books by Peter Tremayne. Sister Fidelma is a 7th-century Irish nun and an advocate in their legal system, and her detecting partner is a Saxon monk and hereditary magistrate. The historical detail is faultless and the series doesn't get anything like as repetitive as the Cadfael books became towards the end.
Of course the greatest historical detective stories of all time, by a mile, are the 'Judge Dee' books by Robert Van Gulik.
I think I read a couple of the Sister Fidelma books quite a few years ago and indeed liked them, but that was back before the day of the ebook and I have a brain that hates reading series out of order. Not being able to find the first book made me reluctant to read more.One thing about ebooks, it makes location particular books a lot easier! I shall have to see about getting hold of those and reading them from the beginning.
I also like the Sister Frevisse nvels by Margaret Frazer. Ive read the firt dozen or so and am now stuck because the next one doesn't appear to have been e-booked :) Which is weird, because all the others have - some bizarre copywrite issue perhaps.
Still, there's a paper version available for 40p plus postage, so maybe it's time to go back to that :)
J and I (out of sheer boredom) bought an audio CD murder mystery at a gas station once. It turned out to be 3 CDs with mp3 tracks. So hours and hours and hours of listening. J calls him "Inspector Lamenti" and it's horrible. So much stuff is described in detail that nobody ever needs to know about. I think his real name is Inspector Lynley.
We are well into CD 2 (at least 8 h listening) and there wasn't a murder so far. A little girl has been abducted and kept for weeks in a monastery without any complaining from the side of the girl nor any notice from the nuns. Meanwhile the cardboard characters make every possible mistake known in policing to slow the search down. *sigh*
Would you like to share which author you are suggesting above that I should avoid in the future?
The book I was complaining about was called Shaded Light and by J.A Menzies. This is apparently a pen name. I do not blame them for not wanting to put their own name to it.
Ah, Inspector Lynley. I've read a few of those. Lots of soul-searching and painful relationships as I recall. Don't think I've read that particular one though.
They adapted them for tv and I was fuming when I saw the previews, because they'd taken the stocky, unattractive chainsmoking overeating, buzzcut Sergeant Barbara Havers and cast a slim pretty curly redhead in her place. I declined to watch it.
If this one had a lot of soul-searching in it, I missed it. More likely it was so badly written that I didn't buy it :) But then, J and I are very down to earth normally and we don't really get people who make second-guessing a relationship or their own actions all the time.
Barbara seems to be quite a character but in this one she behaves so very un-police-like, it's hard to believe she didn't get fired ages ago. Hee. But maybe that's her charm.
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After spending much too much time online reading fanfic, I came home with the most recent books from 2 reliable authors, JD Robb and Joanne Fluke. Two very different styles of protagonists. It's a change to have a real book in my hands again. No kindles or ereaders for me so my online reading has to be done sitting in front of the monitor attached to my old style desktop computer. :)
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One advantage of ebooks - it's much harder to do that without losing your place, so I'm less tempted ;)
No kindles or ereaders for me so my online reading has to be done sitting in front of the monitor attached to my old style desktop computer. :)
Oddly, I don't mind reading fanfiction or short pieces on a monitor but for actual books I prefer a handheld device or an actual paper tome. One of my personal quirks :)
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Of course the greatest historical detective stories of all time, by a mile, are the 'Judge Dee' books by Robert Van Gulik.
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I think I read a couple of the Sister Fidelma books quite a few years ago and indeed liked them, but that was back before the day of the ebook and I have a brain that hates reading series out of order. Not being able to find the first book made me reluctant to read more.One thing about ebooks, it makes location particular books a lot easier! I shall have to see about getting hold of those and reading them from the beginning.
I also like the Sister Frevisse nvels by Margaret Frazer. Ive read the firt dozen or so and am now stuck because the next one doesn't appear to have been e-booked :) Which is weird, because all the others have - some bizarre copywrite issue perhaps.
Still, there's a paper version available for 40p plus postage, so maybe it's time to go back to that :)
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make for an interesting plot, at least :)
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J and I (out of sheer boredom) bought an audio CD murder mystery at a gas station once. It turned out to be 3 CDs with mp3 tracks. So hours and hours and hours of listening. J calls him "Inspector Lamenti" and it's horrible. So much stuff is described in detail that nobody ever needs to know about. I think his real name is Inspector Lynley.
We are well into CD 2 (at least 8 h listening) and there wasn't a murder so far. A little girl has been abducted and kept for weeks in a monastery without any complaining from the side of the girl nor any notice from the nuns. Meanwhile the cardboard characters make every possible mistake known in policing to slow the search down. *sigh*
Would you like to share which author you are suggesting above that I should avoid in the future?
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Ah, Inspector Lynley. I've read a few of those. Lots of soul-searching and painful relationships as I recall. Don't think I've read that particular one though.
They adapted them for tv and I was fuming when I saw the previews, because they'd taken the stocky, unattractive chainsmoking overeating, buzzcut Sergeant Barbara Havers and cast a slim pretty curly redhead in her place. I declined to watch it.
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Barbara seems to be quite a character but in this one she behaves so very un-police-like, it's hard to believe she didn't get fired ages ago. Hee. But maybe that's her charm.
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