two very different series mysteries
Aug. 7th, 2006 10:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
snugglekittyWhile traveling recently I read Murder on Mulberry Bend by Victoria Thompson. Shortly after I got home, I read Hit List by Lawrence Block.
I've been very much enjoying the Gaslight Mysteries series. I believe![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
starkeymonster first told me about them. There's this midwife named Sarah Brandt, and she and her friend the kinda-corrupt policeman Frank Malloy solve mysteries together. I like the sexual tension between the main characters, and I like the way that the author explores different cultures within the NYC of the time. Three stars. They're consistently good so far, and I think this is the fifth one I've read. It's hard to find authors that can keep the quality of a series up. Good going, Thompson!
Book 94 for the year was Hit List by Lawrence Block. Block is my favorite mystery writer, although his best-known series, the Matthew Scudder books, are way too dark for me. He's funny and not too strait-laced. Hit List is his second book featuring the hit man Keller. In this book we find out his first name, he goes to see a psychic, and he tries to figure out whose hit list HE is on. I liked it just as much as the first book. I love that Keller has occaisional moral qualms but they don't at all prevent him from getting the job done. Four stars.
I've been very much enjoying the Gaslight Mysteries series. I believe
starkeymonster first told me about them. There's this midwife named Sarah Brandt, and she and her friend the kinda-corrupt policeman Frank Malloy solve mysteries together. I like the sexual tension between the main characters, and I like the way that the author explores different cultures within the NYC of the time. Three stars. They're consistently good so far, and I think this is the fifth one I've read. It's hard to find authors that can keep the quality of a series up. Good going, Thompson!Book 94 for the year was Hit List by Lawrence Block. Block is my favorite mystery writer, although his best-known series, the Matthew Scudder books, are way too dark for me. He's funny and not too strait-laced. Hit List is his second book featuring the hit man Keller. In this book we find out his first name, he goes to see a psychic, and he tries to figure out whose hit list HE is on. I liked it just as much as the first book. I love that Keller has occaisional moral qualms but they don't at all prevent him from getting the job done. Four stars.