I found one more Michael Connelly through Whatsonmybookshelf.com and now I have finished the Connelly series. Makes me kind of sad. I had gotten attached to Harry Bosch even as he has become more and more focused (and in danger of corruption himself) on "speaking for the dead" by way of "the true detective". Connelly has introduced another character that I hope he writes more of-The Lincoln Lawyer. His name escapes me right now but he is a criminal lawyer. He bought three Lincolns at a sale and has a driver so he can use the car(s) as his office as he races from one courthouse and jail to another.

A long time ago I picked up Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency, read a few pages and dropped it. I thought it was boring. But I was book shopping with my mom and she convinced me that it really was as charming, etc, as all the reviews so I tried again and forced myself to get all the way through it. I was right-it was boring. Not awful, just boring. But there it is listed on my blog.

Just a quick note right now. Book club selection for this month was The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy. Slow start to get used to style of an earlier age then a quick, swash-buckling finish. Fun to read, not sure if I'm interested in any other Scarlet Pimpernel sequels.

Hallelujah-found another Dick Francis that I hadn't read before-Straight. No need to even talk about it-it's Dick Francis!

Michael Connelly-The Narrows. Harry and Terry McCaleb are back together again in a way. Harry has been called by Terry's widow. She is not certain that his death was actually a rejection of his new heart. But she is reluctant to go to the police and has asked Harry to look into it. It, of course, turns into a much larger situation than expected. He ends up in the Nevada California desert tangling with the Feds and on the trail of the Poet-the serial killer he had chased once before. Whether or not Terry's death is an accident, natural causes, or murder isn't revealed until the very end. We spend a little more time with Harry's daughter and Harry ends up back on the LAPD force. I will be sorry when I run out of this series!

I ran across another book on my bookshelf which I hadn't remembered reading. Constance read it and told me it was not worth the time. I read just a page or two and it bacame clear why I had not remembered it-the only question is-"why did I put it back on the shelf?!" Good title-the Celtic Riddle-bad book, by Lyn Hamilton.

Only a few more Michael Connellys left. This one-Lost Light-brought us back to Harry Bosch. He's now working freelance. He has a private detective badge but isn't using ut. He's fixated on a cold case that has haunted him for years. But he's finding out that, as hard as the work was with a badge, it's even harder without one. However, true to form he solves the case with much mayhem and also finds a daughter he didn't know he had. It's good to have Harry back.