Finished DANCING IN THE DARK

I figured out "who done it" about half way through the book.  I recommend you not read the blurbs on the cover and in back of the book before you read it...they provided me with the clue to figuring it out, although it was, to me, the most likely conclusion.... Any other perpetrator would have been a cop out.  However, it is not as fun to read a mystery when you figure it out...  Oh, well.

I have now started W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear's People of the Moon, set this time in what is now Chaca Canyon and Mesa Verde at about 1200 a.d., the time of the Anasazi's disappearance.

Finished COLD STREETS

These books get better with each book.  Lots of fun.  It left one plot string not completely resolved, so I'm looking forward to the next book (now on order).  I also figured out P. N. Elrod is writing two other series as well, so I may sample them.

I am now about to start Dancing in the Dark, a thriller by Mary Jane Clark.

Finished DEATH ON THE NILE by Agatha Christie

I figured out who done it, pretty much from the moment it happened!  This is highly unusual.  It may have been unconscious memory from the movie, of course.  But I doubted myself lots of times...Agatha Christie could be called "the mistress of red herrings!"

I am now reading Cold Streets, a Vampire Files (Jack Fleming novel) by P. N. Elrod.  Now the owner of the Lady Crymson night club, Jack is also helping his friend on private detective cases while trying to keep peace in the club.  Multiple plots in this one--

Finished MICAH by Laurell K Hamilton

Another exciting romantic supernatural adventure.  What's not to like?

I am about to start Death on the Nile, a Hercule Poirot Mystery by Agatha Christie.  I saw the movie a long time ago with Tom Hickey on VHS, pausing to talk about it a lot during the movie.  I think Tom actually solved it ahead of the end.  Not me.  That is about all I remember, so I am ready to read it.

Finished POLDARK/ ROSS POLDARK

The book followed the PBS series pretty closely, but some things were better explained and some, surprisingly, not as well.  The main value of the story is, I believe, to recount the culture, classism, medical lack of knowledge, law, inheritance customs, etc. of the time:  in other words, what life was like in late 18th century England.  Of course, Poldark lives often bucking the mores of society of his time, thus increasing our insight.  The story is moody, but lovely, with laughter and tears.

I have now started Laurell Hamilton's Micah.  Like all of her books, it is frightening, thrilling, romantic and sexy.  A great break after immersion in the history that is Poldark.

Finished THE HUNT (The Secret Circle) by L. J. Smith

Again, L. J. Smith finishes a resolves the problem introduced by the last book and, by the end of this book, introduces a worse problem.  Sort of like a tv series season finale....  I give up.  I am hooked.

I have now started Ross Poldark, the first book of the Poldark series by Winston Graham.  We saw this on PBS and TR bought the first three books in the series.  He read and enjoyed the first two, but said the third was boring.  I've only just started, but the book is certainly in the same mood and atmosphere as the TV drama.  Ross has returned home to find his father dead and his estate in disrepair.  He is about to learn that his fiancé is now to marry someone else.

Finished THIS TIME TOGETHER by Carol Burnett

Greatly enjoyed this fast reading book.  Nearly each short chapter ended with a very funny punchline.  So there I am laughing hysterically, but I need to read the whole chapter aloud to share what I am laughing at.  I try.  I suspect that being near me while I was reading this was probably annoying. About as bad as me reading Roughing It by Mark Twain...it just takes so long to retell the joke.  Very very funny!  Love this woman!

I have started the next book in The Secret Circle series by L. J. Smith, The Hunt.  This starts with two of the circle having been marked by witch hunters who are actively pursuing the rest of the circle.  They have identified two of the hunters...the students' school principal and his son....