April 3, 2005

• Oh my, what a wealth of recently published, or soon to be, books!

  We all know about Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, of course.  That one goes without saying.

  But there’s also 1776, by David McCullough.  America’s revolutionary history is one of the most fascinating in the world, ISTM.

  On the mystery front there’s a new Gregor Demarkian out, The Headmaster’s Wife, and a new Claire Malloy book by Joan Hess, The Goodbye Body.  One that came out last fall but I’ve yet to read is A Midsummer Night’s Scream
  by Jill Churchill . . . it’s in the library, though, so I shan’t have
  to buy it.  The others aren’t, however.  Dang.  A title
  not due out till August is a new Constable Evan Evans book by Rhys
  Bowen, Evan Blessed. 
  That’s good . . . Bowen’s been writing a second series, and I’m rarely
  as fond of an author’s second series.  Joan Hess (who writes both
  the Maggody and Claire Malloy books) is the only one that’s managed the
  feat since Agatha Christie’s death.  Another book set across the
  pond that recently was published but hasn’t yet come my way is Death of a Bore, a Hamish MacBeth mystery by M. C. Beaton.

  Riches galore!  

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