Finished DEATH BY DIDGERIDOO

 

You don't have to know what a didgeridoo is to understand this book, but I just happened to.  There was a band that played at the Scottish music festival that included the bagpipes and a didgeridoo.  It is an Australian horn about 4 feet long that extends in front of its seated player and rests on the ground.  It has a very deep voice and is loud...one of very few instruments that can hold its own against bagpipes.  That band had a great sound and I've not found anything like it anywhere else.

I enjoyed this short mystery because of its interesting protagonist, Jamie Quinn, who I liked immediately as well as other fun characters, the urgency of solving it, the setting that I'm familiar with, and the roadblock to solving it in the form of a young man on the "spectrum" with Asperger's disease.

I have now barely started The Operator by Kim Harrison which has immediately puzzled me.  It says it is the second in the series and when I read Drafter it said it was the first in the series, but the three books are listed in a different order in front of the book.  So, huh? 

Finished SERPENTINE

 

I thought this was one of her best books.  Yes, lots of relationship stuff, and also a pretty great plot.  New creature discovered.  I also enjoyed the description of the Florida Keys since I have been there and have driven the same roads that are described in the book.

The print became much more readable with my new glasses.  My squinting to see it accounts for how long it has taken me to read it.

I have now started Death by Digeridoo, a Jamie Quinn mystery by Barbara Venkataraman.  As I first started it, I was a bit confused since it is set in Hollywood, FL, a small town between Miami and Ft. Lauderdale.  A major character is named Adam.  Problem: the book I just finished was set in the Keys and also had a character named Adam.  A man who is hated by everyone who knows him has been murdered...how do you find a murderer when everyone has a motive?

Finished FEVRE DREAM

 

Wow.  I had no idea George R. R. Martin wrote horror stories.  This had me full of foreboding through the first half and then on the edge of my seat for the last.  Whew.  What an adventure.  Loved it.

I am now starting Serpentine by Laurell K Hamilton, Anita Blake #26.  Have I really read 25 books in this series?  I do enjoy the series, but the size of the books has gotten so large in the last book and this one, that I can hardly see the tiny print.  Luckily I have an eye appointment coming up this week.  Both Anita and Micah have found something they have never seen before which grotesquely disturbing and very sad....