Hi darlings! This book...er, page is no longer a page which always has a text about the latest book I've finished. It hasn't been for a while. I'm not a good updater. I'm a bad updater. Good updaters go to heaven, but bad... :) Weeellll.... This page, I think, will always have text about a book. Sometimes, possibly, it will be another book than it was yesterday. ehum... Here we go: Just finished "Fuzz" (or, in Swedish, as I read it, "Deckarna") by Ed McBain, a book about the 87th precinct. There are quite a few more such books, and some of them I've read, and liked. Tadaaaa... List of 87th books I've read so far (may be updated), in the order I happen to think of them: eng / swe Fuzz/Deckarna A bit of a lightweight book, maybe, but still nice reading, especially for a lover of cool villains such as myself. This is, nehmlich, the second appearance of the horrendous "deaf man", and the first one I've read. If possible, you should probably read the first book where he appears, named something like "The Deaf Man" (Den döve... detta är den riktiga svenska titeln, men den engelska vet jag inte.) before this one. I didn't, but... And oh, it's a really cold March. McBain never lets you forget the weather. Ice/Is The English titles of mr. McBain's works often involve rather clever use of double meanings, but to my knowledge he has never integrated this so totally with the story as in "Ice". The detectives of 87th know, in this book, that people have been killed because of ice, but ice can mean a lot of things... McBain gets something fairly interesting out of this. However, I suppose I should tell you that it's not an Agatha Christie type of intrigue we're talking about (as the talk of "ice can mean a lot of things..." might indicate). There may be McBain books with such stories (I wouldn't be too surprised) but I have yet to read them. And of course, it is Winter... Bread/Kulor I really like this one. It's thinner than most of them, although that may just be the printing (a pocket book) I have. The theme, "bread", cash that is, and what people will do for it (all sorts of people) comes through nicely, without making the story feel constructed. It's rather cynical, maybe, but it has a nice feeling. Drugs and filthy real estate deals is the name of the game, and I don't remember the weather. Give the Boys a Great Big Hand.../Handen In heavy rain, rain that keeps pouring through most of the book, a constable picks up a parcel that reveals itself to contain a human hand... And the boys take on the challenge, what else can they do. They're paid for it after all... A lot of "There are nicer things to do than to chase after a body minus one hand..." Nocturne/Nocturne "The nightshift book". So it's about half "the city has another face in the night, other people, other creatures, come out, other business is done...", half "I need some sleep...". By the way, I need some sleep. Just gonna list the rest by name for now and fill out the details later. Vespers/Aftonsång Priesticide. Satanic cult involved. Calypso/Calypso First one I read. Has a serial killer of the really ugly kind. King's Ransom/Hotet One of the more interesting, quite dense. The gardener's boy is kidnapped instead of the heir to the King fortune - but the kidnappers still demand ransom. Heated discussions, moral dilemmas (?), interesting portraits of both the kidnapping gang (with its own internal conflicts) and the members of the King household. Killer's Payoff/Hämnden Extortionisticide investigation with lots of dead ends (or are they?), where everyone the detectives talk to gets to be quite a real person (even if they do prove to be a dead end). This is true about most of the books, but I think particularly so about this one. 'Til Death/Hatet Don't read this the day before your wedding. Or maybe, do. It might be fun. I think I'll try it if I ever marry. I can recommend them all. But of course, only to people who like this sort of thing... with love (as usually), MHO ps Click here to take a look at the books that went before.