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What I've been reading
I finished Death of a Fool even though it was a slog. I think it has the most annoying cast of non-reocurring characters I've encountered in an Alleyn mystery since Death in Ecstacy, especially the Andersen clan. Even the obligatory young het couple are rather dull, and I usually find them strangely charming.
I reread Singing in the Shrouds, which is an odd hybrid—a serial killer story contrived in such a way that Alleyn can investigate it in more or less the same way he would a ‘normal’ murder, with the added bonus that Alleyn, the suspects, and the potential victims are all trapped on a ship at sea together. It's not terrible, although ( mild spoilers )
I reread False Scent, about which I cannot think of a single exciting thing to say, positive or negative. It was pretty much just there.
I reread Hand in Glove, which was my favorite out of this slightly perfunctory run of middle books. I quite like both Nicola (who is never called 'Cola') and Andrew the artist whom Troy accepts as a pupil, who with the advancing years of publication are I believe the first young love interests to negotiate the possibility of premarital sex, although Nicola quashes it.
I reread Dead Water, which ends with ( spoilers )
What I'm reading next
I've finally come to Killer Dolphin, which I remember as being superb and which I definitely reread many times. I hope not to be unpleasantly surprised.
I finished Death of a Fool even though it was a slog. I think it has the most annoying cast of non-reocurring characters I've encountered in an Alleyn mystery since Death in Ecstacy, especially the Andersen clan. Even the obligatory young het couple are rather dull, and I usually find them strangely charming.
I reread Singing in the Shrouds, which is an odd hybrid—a serial killer story contrived in such a way that Alleyn can investigate it in more or less the same way he would a ‘normal’ murder, with the added bonus that Alleyn, the suspects, and the potential victims are all trapped on a ship at sea together. It's not terrible, although ( mild spoilers )
I reread False Scent, about which I cannot think of a single exciting thing to say, positive or negative. It was pretty much just there.
I reread Hand in Glove, which was my favorite out of this slightly perfunctory run of middle books. I quite like both Nicola (who is never called 'Cola') and Andrew the artist whom Troy accepts as a pupil, who with the advancing years of publication are I believe the first young love interests to negotiate the possibility of premarital sex, although Nicola quashes it.
I reread Dead Water, which ends with ( spoilers )
What I'm reading next
I've finally come to Killer Dolphin, which I remember as being superb and which I definitely reread many times. I hope not to be unpleasantly surprised.
