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TexasProgresive

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2. The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry

Sun Feb 8, 2015, 01:11 PM

Feb 2015

This is a really interesting mystery/police procedural taking place mostly in London shortly after the Crimean war. There is a murder of course but the police man is a mystery even to himself as he lost his sense of self in a hansom cab crash.

A.D. Scott's A Small Death in the Great Glen which was very good. It did cause me some emotional turmoil (anger) caused by a really rotten relationship between the main character who I would like to meet and her husband who needs to meet a bad end.

The Scott book takes place in Scotland fall and winter including Christmas so I thought I would read M.C. Beaton's A Highland Christmas and put a hold on it. If I finish the Perry book I will read the Hamish Macbeth mystery.

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What are you reading the week of Sunday, February 8, 2015? [View all] scarletwoman Feb 2015 OP

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It's a cool series, yes? scarletwoman Feb 2015 #6

It's very good! shenmue Feb 2015 #7

The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #2

I think I may have read an Anne Perry novel or two over the years, and my impression is that she's scarletwoman Feb 2015 #8

Still working on Adjacent SheilaT Feb 2015 #3

Christopher Priest seems to write some very surreal stuff. scarletwoman Feb 2015 #9

Not yet. SheilaT Feb 2015 #12

Hello, everyone! Nice to see you. Thank you for the thread, scarletwoman. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #4

Ah, Ian Rankin! I know I've brought him up at one time or another here, so it could have been me who scarletwoman Feb 2015 #5

Thank you, scarletwoman. Enthusiast Feb 2015 #13

Well, I think Hillerman's books will always be worth re-reading. scarletwoman Feb 2015 #14

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I just finished Face of a Stranger TexasProgresive Feb 2015 #15