Finished the Cara Black - we are set up to do an interview between her and the mystery bookclub on Tuesday via Skype. I'll be interested to hear how she got her start, she was great when we did the run-through yesterday.
Of the two arcs I have left to blurb before our trip, the McCrery is almost finished. The synesthesia angle is pretty interesting. I watched a programme on the science channel last year about it, imagine your whole brain re-wired, you smell sounds and taste colours. Lapslie the detective in this novel can taste sounds and his condition appears to be accelerating. The other factor McCrery uses to great effect is the shocking Jill Dando case - she was gunned down on her boyfriend's doorstep in Chiswick. I was still in England when that happened and the press did fall over themselves to get justice for their fallen colleague but after accusing everyone from a nutjob stalker to the Serbian mafia the police ran out of leads and her murderer was never caught.
This is likely to be the last post of 2009. I didn't do a top ten this year because there are too many good books out there this year.
Happy Christmas and see you in 2010
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