> Anyone reading a mystery? This morning there are 4 messages
 > in here and
 > none are about mysteries! Last night I was reading "Trunk
 > Music", the
 > most recent Michael Connelly. He is such a good writer!
 
Hi, Suzze - I agree, let's talk about the mysteries we are reading.
 
Let's see -- most recently, I'm catching up on a bunch of Peter Lovesey's 
books which I missed when they first came out.  I went through all the Peter 
Diamond series I could get my hands on, and read them mostly backwards, 
starting with THE SUMMONS (the newest paperback), reading the newest 
hardcover next (THE BLOODHOUNDS, I think it was called 
-- it's a great locked-room mystery set in a mystery readers' club) 
and then going back to read DIAMOND SOLITAIRE.  I am now kicking myself for 
not buying THE LAST DETECTIVE (the first Peter Diamond) when I saw it, since 
it's out of print and I can't find it anywhere.
 
So having learned my lesson, I'm busily collecting all the Sergeant Cribb 
books and plan to go through them in order this time.  I most recently read 
WOBBLE TO DEATH, the first Cribb mystery.  (I've also read MAD HATTER'S 
HOLIDAY and one of the other ones, maybe SWING, SWING TOGETHER.)
 
My husband has been catching up on a couple of early Arthur Upfield novels 
which he mail-ordered from Bloody Dagger books in San Diego. 
 HOUSE OF CAIN is a thriller (not really a mystery) and GRIPPED BY 
DROUGHT is a mainstream novel -- neither are Bony books.  Both are handsome 
reprints published by my friend Dennis McMillan.
 
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