March reads + SJ Rozan's In This Rain

Carol O'Connell, Winter House
Next to latest in the Mallory series; am still on the hold list for Find Me. Am sorry to be caught up with this series. They just get better and better. This one was in some ways the saddest one yet, as the truth about what happened to the young girl and how she spent her life is shown to have been unnecessary.

Deborah Crombie, Water Like a Stone
Latest in the Kincaid/James series, another excellent one. Murder finds them during the Christmas holidays while they are visiting Kincaid's family.

Linda Fairstein, Bad Blood
Lots of plots in this one, took awhile to pull together, but lots of interesting NY history again.

Karen Harper, The Poyson Garden
First in the Elizabeth series. This one takes place before she becomes queen, as her sister Mary is ill and dying. Elizabeth uncovers a plot against her and solves the mystery. OK, but not great.

Michael Connelly, The Overlook
New Bosch - coming out soon. I reviewed this for Library Journal. It's another great one in the series.

Slow month, but four out of five were excellent. April is off to a slow but also excellent start: just finished SJ Rozan's In This Rain this morning. It gets off to a slow start, almost too much detail about the housing and construction business and bureaucracy in Manhattan, but then it takes off and does not let go. And the heroine Ann Montgomery wears "my" perfume (Hanae Mori) :-) Rozan is one of the strongest writers we have, and this one really shows her range and her exquisite knowledge and understanding of the city.