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FMK #30: Contemporary Mysteries
Possibly longer review coming later, but if I did in fact own a copy, it would be a definite M at this point. Just note that there is a scene where Hans is fighting a wolf bare-handed when the wolf is suddenly also attacked by a giant polar bear, so he has to pause fighting the wolf to chase off the bear so he can come back and kill the wolf ALL BY HIMSELF. In a gloomy cave full of pagan idols.
(Also everybody except the corrupt nobles lives happily ever after! including the defeated rebel leaders!)
Now that I'm through that and also through a lot of my other library books backlog (I have read Provenance! It was good! Mercy of Kalr needs some spider mechs!) I should be able to start catching up on the FMK backlog again.
Last week's K winner was the Dr. Strangelove novelization. Should be fun! The F winner was actually Mockingjay, which I did not expect that much hate for. I think I am going to exercise my discretion and K the second-place instead, Alph, which was universally agreed to be terrible by everybody who had heard of it.
It's week #30 already! Time for MYSTERIES. I actually had enough random mystery novels lying around that there will be two, maybe three weeks of mysteries. (This is mostly the fault of work.)
How FMK works, short version: I am trying to clear out my unreads. So there is a poll, in which you get to pick F, M, or K. F means I should spend a night of wild passion with the book ASAP, and then decide whether to keep it or not. M means I should continue to commit to a long-term relationship of sharing my bedroom with it. K means it should go away immediately. Anyone can vote, you don't have to actually know anything about the books.
I pick a winner on Friday night (although won't actually close the poll, people can still vote,) and report results/post the new poll on the following Tuesday, and write a response to the F winner sometime in the next week.
Link to long version of explanation (on first poll)
Delete All Suspects by Donna Andrews (2005) (The detective is a computer)
Bone Hunter by Sarah Andrews (1999) (The detective is a paleontologist)
Death of Yesterday by M. C. Beaton (2013) (The detective is a Scotsman)
The Tin Roof Blowdown by James Lee Burke (2007) (The detective is a sheriff)
Providence Rag by Bruce DeSilva (1999) (The detective is a reporter)
The Dinosaur Feather by Sissel-Jo Gavan (2013) (The detective is a Scandinavian policeman)
Angora Alibi by Sally Goldenbaum (2013) (The detective is a knitter)
Danger In DC edited by Martin Greenberg (1993) (The detectives are cats)
Strangled Prose by Joan Hess (1986) (The detective is a bookstore owner)
Bones in High Places by Suzette Hill (2010) (The detective is a vicar)
Guy Noir and the Straight Skinny by Garrison Keillor (2012) (The detective is a... detective?)
Eat, Drink and Be Buried by Peter King (2001) (The detective is a professional 'culinary sleuth'.)
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The bit where half the time the protagonist is a doofy idiot who couldn't detect their own ass with their hands bound behind their back is a tougher issue for me, though, it's true (Also the ones that get way too into their setting and forget they are supposed have a murder-related plot annoy me; if I wanted a story about an annoying and improbably prosperous person having boring personal issues while absolutely nothing happens I would just be reading women's fiction instead.)
The cats ones are practically their own subgenre at this point, though, with all the same range of quality; my mom likes to listen to them on road trips so I have been exposed to several. This one is specifically cats in DC, which might me interesting. The sheep one sounds amazing, though. DETECTIVE SHEEP.
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