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Lydia Leftcoast

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17. First of all, I really liked Peter May's Hebrides series, although I have
Mon Jan 26, 2015, 03:08 PM
Jan 2015

not yet gotten to the third book.

Sundstøl's second book is in my queue.

Now, as for my current reads:

Bedside book: The Magus of Hay by Phil Rickman. I first got into Phil Rickman's books when I joined a tour to the Three Choirs Festival in Hereford, England, led by a retired priest associated with the cathedral. The main character of the series, which begins with The Wine of the Angels, is about an Anglican priest in the diocese of Hereford, a widowed woman with a teenage daughter who is into Neo-Paganism, as they encounter the eery situations that the Welsh border country is famous for. The plot of the first book leads to her being named "deliverance minister" (i.e. exorcist) for the diocese. The latest book takes place in the "book town," Hay-on-Wye, Wales, where the drowning death of a man who was once considered an authority on the occult leads to suspicions of murder.

Purse book: The Secret Place by Tana French. Tana French's books are police procedurals that take place in Dublin, and a unique characteristic is that people who are minor characters in one book become major characters in the next. In this installment in the series, two Catholic boarding schools, one for girls (St. Kilda's) and one for boys (St. Colm's), are side-by-side and see only the usual adolescent hijinks until a popular boy from St. Colm's is found dead on the grounds of St. Kilda's. The crime is unsolved, but a year later, one of the girls, who happens to be the daughter of a police detective, brings in an anonymous note that someone left on a bulletin board called The Secret Place. It says "I know who killed Chris." This leads to the re-opening of the investigation, focusing on two cliques of girls.

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