2023 mystery, seventh in the Karen Pirie series. As COVID restrictions start in Scotland, a researcher at the National Library contacts the Historic Cases Unit with an unfinished manuscript in th...
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/Past_Lying__Val_McDermid.html
2023 fantasy. Kayla's day out at the State Fair suddenly includes a stranger telling her that she's the daughter of the previous Dark Lord of Zaradwin, and bringing her and her family across worl...
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/Dark_Lord_s_Daughter__Patricia_C__Wrede.html
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges . The latest involved list evaluation and poker hands. (Note that this ends today.)
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/The_Weekly_Challenge_291__Index_Poker.html
2020 fantasy romance, first of a series. Theodora Ettings meets a fairy lord in the woods, and half her soul is stolen before her cousin Vanessa can rescue her. With her emotions largely missing,...
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/Half_a_Soul__Olivia_Atwater.html
1989 mystery; Holt's first novel. Sheila Malory is a widow in a Devon town, who gets involved in all the local Good Works. Naturally that ends up including poking about in a local murder. US vt M...
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/Gone_Away__Hazel_Holt.html
2000 mystery, twentieth in Muller's series about Sharon McCone, private investigator in San Francisco. Sharon's father dies, and when she's going through his things she finds a very surprising do...
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/Listen_to_the_Silence__Marcia_Muller.html
2024 romance/SF/mystery; 58th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). Someone's poisoning girls in public places; Dallas investigates.
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/Random_in_Death__J__D__Robb.html
2024 fantasy. Kiela and Caz flee from the sack of the Imperial Library with all the books they could save, and go to Kiela's birthplace on a remote island. They plan to keep their heads down. But...
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/The_Spellshop__Sarah_Beth_Durst.html
2023 mystery, seventh in its series. It's 1966 in Brighton, and someone is murdering magicians' assistants again…
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/The_Great_Deceiver__Elly_Griffiths.html
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges . The latest involved list analysis and Luhn's checksum algorithm. (Note that this ends today.)
https://blog.firedrake.org/archive/2024/10/The_Weekly_Challenge_290__Double_Luhn.html