Currently reading
Shatter the Bones by Stuart MacBride - latest in the DS Logan McRae series. The McRae series keeps getting darker, but MacBride is one heck of a writer.
Red Moon by Benjamin Percy - American humans vs. American lycanthropes. For lycanthrope, substitute any "Other," e.g., immigrants, Muslims, etc. A little obvious, but still not a bad story so far. What seems odd, at least about 1/3 of the way through the book, is that "lycans" appear to be an American phenomenon. USA. USA.
Spilled Blood by Brian Freeman - Two feuding towns in Minnesota. The other side of the track town, St. Croix, up in arms about cancer cluster claimed to be caused by Monadaman Research (read Monsanto?) in upscale Barron. The daughter of the CEO of the evil chemical company is murdered. I started listening to this one but had to take a break. The accused killer, a teenage girl from St. Croix, claims she didn't murder the other girl, though all the evidence points to her. I'm guessing that in the end she didn't do it, and you know that more people are going to die, etc. I don't know if I'm going to make my way through it.
Read recently
Land of the Living by Nicci French - A bit tedious. British murder mystery. The first two hundred pages is essentially a monologue by the main character, who is being held hostage by a crazy person. Or it's all in her head. Or she's just making it up. She then escapes, conveniently has amnesia regarding the days before her alleged kidnapping. No one believes her, and she sets about recreating her movements before her kidnapping. If you make it past the first 200 pages, you'll want to finish it to see if it was real or fabricated. But that's a lot to ask.
Birdman by Mo Hayder - Serial killers, necrophiles, the smart detective everyone ignores (a bit like Logan McRae above). The descriptions of the killings are more than a little gruesome, but there are quite a few twists and turns, and if you have the stomach for it, it's a pretty good read.
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