So, I finished Karin Fossum's The Drowned Boy the week before last - a tragic story told with great sensitivity. As I've mentioned before, she is one of my favorite Scandinavian authors.
After that one, I read The Hanging Girl by Danish author Jussi Adler-Olsen, #6 of his Department Q series. This has been a wonderful series, which I would happily recommend to any fan of police procedurals; twisty plots, fascinating protagonists, with touches of dry humor, and genuine human empathy.
I'm now nearly finished with A.D. Scott's A Kind of Grief, also #6 in her Joanne Ross series. This series is set mainly in the Scottish Highlands in the 50s - the author is a Scot. The titular protagonist of the series is sometime investigative reporter/aspriring novelist whose sense of justice and curiosity and willingness to defy the social conventions of her day lead her through various adventures in her determination to uncover the truth. I really enjoy this series, in no small part because of all the Highland history and culture that form the backdrop to the stories.
Next on deck is The Guise of Another, the second book by Minnesota-based author Allen Eskens. I very much enjoyed his first novel, The Life We Bury, so I'm looking to forward to see how he has developed as an author since his fairly impressive, if slightly uneven, debut.
From there I'll be heading back across the Atlantic to England, and the Lake District Mysteries by Martin Edwards. He popped up as a recommendation on GoodReads, so I thought I'd give him a look. I've long been intrigued by the Lake District, so I'm hoping that this series will at least be an entertaining way to pass the time until more of the latest books by my longtime favorite authors become available.
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