Back here I said I was going to try out some of Jane Haddam's Gregor Demarkian books (full list here), and now I have. At the local used bookstore I found a copy of Not a Creature Was Stirring, book one in what's now a twenty-book series, and I'm now reading Conspiracy Theory, the nineteenth. It's the only one my local library had today when I went to return some books. They can be read as stand-alones, fortunately.
They're very good. They're complicated, the murders are puzzles, and the characters are well-drawn. I'm looking for the ones I haven't yet read. Library Thing has tie-ins with several bookswap sites, but not one of them lists any of these as available. Rats!
Posted by Linkmeister at January 6, 2007 07:54 PM | TrackBackFirst the first book then the 19th? So this is one of those series more like the Sherlock Holmes stories where the order doesn't really matter? I wouldn't try that with the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries.Or with Amelia Peabody - who'd hit me on the head with her dreaded umbrella if I were to dare.
Posted by: Serge at January 7, 2007 04:43 AMWell, there have been some changes from the introductory volume to the latest, but from what I've read at LT she's very meticulous about not revealing results of earlier crimes.
I read Amelia out of sequence and regretted it, but my local branch didn't have all the books; I had to go the inter-library loan route. Then I decided I had to own them all; I just acquired the final two books in the series a week ago. Imagine my shock reading He Shall Thunder in the Sky before Falcon at the Portal!
Posted by: Linkmeister at January 7, 2007 07:45 AM