Finished DEATHSTALKER REBELLION

 

Once again great characters, lots of action, and an epic quality make this book quite readable.  I enjoyed this book much more than the first in the series, but I enjoyed that one enough to buy more of the books.

I have now barely started Hell on the Border (Bass Reeves Trilogy, Book 2).  It picks up with Bass hunting a pair of outlaw brothers.  In disguise as a very hungry bum, he convinces their mother to invite him in a give him something to eat.  When the brothers come home, he drinks with them, waits for them to go to sleep, then handcuffs them.  Sneaky and effective.  I'm hoping for a flashback to explain how he got from his escape from slavery to here.

Finished MURDER IN THE VILLAGE

 

I do not particularly like Belinda.  She is too bossy.  (She says she is aggressive...OK)  But she is working with a retired police detective to solve a murder.  Wouldn't you think she would listen to him...at least a little?  He seems pretty passive (probably because he finds her attractive, but I can't see why.)

I have now started Deathstalker #2...Deathstalker Rebellion.  If you want action in a totally foreign universe with diverse and interesting (even when not likable) characters, this is fun.  Second book I have read in the series.

Finished FOLLOW THE ANGELS, FOLLOW THE DOVES

 

The first book of the Bass Reeves Trilogy (an early black lawman and marshall in the west) begins with his birth in slavery and takes him through his freedom.  It is set in Arkansas and Texas and includes some of the Civil War with Bass as personal servant to his master, a general among the Texas contingent.  I enjoyed the book, as I had enjoyed the tv series.

I have now begun Murder in the Village, by Lisa Cutts.  I think I am drawn to these murder mysteries set in English villages by way of loving the PBS series, Midsomer Murders.  I am enjoying getting to know Belinda Penhurst, a 41 year old woman who has lived in a castle in this small village most of her life. Of course it is set in present day and the castle does not support itself, so Belinda has organized tours and books events to help pay the overhead.  Her unpredictable brother often skirts the edge of the law requiring her to rectify his messes.