> -=>While in the White Hart, Suzze Tiernan explained to Fred Runk that<=-
 >  ST> We have a reading group at our store. For January 23rd we are reading
 >  ST> "Death in Bloodhound Red".
 >  FR> Who wronte this one?
 >  ST> Virginia Lanier, won one of the awrads for Best First Novel for it.
 >  ST> (The Agatha I think)
 > Haven't read anything by her yet.  What do you think of her?
 I thought "Death in Bloodhound Red" was wonderful. It's almost a series of 
murders and adventures, all rolled into one book. It has a number of 
characters in it, all of whom reappear in her sequel, "House on Bloodhound 
Lane". I thought the first one was a tad bit better than the second, but both 
were excellent stories.
 Just finished Aaron Elkins'newest, "20 Blue Devils". I've loved his Gideon 
Oliver series for years, but his last two haven't been as good as the first 
few in the series. In this new one, murder takes place on a Tahitian coffee 
plantation. The description of the islands is wonderful and as an coffee 
lover, the info on coffee growing was an added benefit. Unfortunately, 
Gideon's vast knowledge of forensics and pathology was only slightly touched 
on. That was a let down since it was originally set out to be a forensics 
type series and gave vast pieces of information previously on the 
understanding of human bones.
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