Jan 20-26, 2013

The Kidnapping by Charles Todd - a very short e-book featuring Ian Rutledge. A man runs into Scotland Yard claiming his daughter has just been kidnapped. I think this was quickly written just so the authors could get in on e-books. It was more like a chapter than a book.

2 stars
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Mistletoe Man by Susan Wittig Albert - another China Bayles mystery. I'm still catching up on the ones I've missed in the middle of the series. This one involves a hit and run.

3 stars
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Bloodroot by Susan Wittig Albert - this time China goes to her family plantation to help her mother care for her great aunt. Long time family mysteries are solved. A little woo-woo with ghostly visions and mysterious smells.

3.5 stars
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Indigo Dying
Dead Man's Bones both by Susan Wittig Albert - I've finally caught up on the series except for the latest book. A little too much foreshadowing in both of these books.

3.5 stars for Indigo
3 stars for Dead
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The Man Who Went Up in Smoke by Maj Sjowall and Per Wahloo- a new detective series for me and an older one. The first book in the series (which I haven't read yet) was published in 1965.  This is the second and somewhat atypical in that the majority doesn't take place in Sweden.

3 stars
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Death Without Company by Craig Johnson - a Sheriff Walt Longmire mystery. A little slow moving at first but finishes with a bang.

3 stars
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Uncommon Clay by Margaret Maron - a Judge Deborah Knott story. Takes place in a pottery community. The deaths are a little gruesome.

3 stars
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Cat's Claw by Susan Wittig Albert  - finally caught up on the China Bales series. This was different in that it alternates between China's first person view and police chief's Sheila Dawson's third person view. I'm not sure I liked that.

3 stars
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An Unthymely Death and Other Stories by Susan Wittig Albert - just when I thought I was done I discovered there was a book of short stories featuring China. I was able to get it from the library on my Kindle so I could get the last book in this week.

2.5 stars