Death in a Strange Country by Donna Leon
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3/5. Multiple people told me to skip book 1, so this is book 2 of a long-running and beloved series of mysteries about a cop in Venice. This one is about a murdered American soldier leading to a conspiracy about toxic chemical dumping.
Eh. I’m in the market for a long mystery series to have a good wallow in, but this isn’t going to be it, I think. It’s not that it’s bad. Quite the opposite – there’s a delicacy and depth to the portrayal of a marriage here, in particular, that I enjoyed. And the mystery itself is deliberately unsatisfying in an interesting way. And the setting is, of course, compelling. But despite all that . . . no thanks. I’ve had my fill of this guy after one book, let alone thirty plus, even if I assume he becomes less of a chauvinist over the course of the books. He would have to do that and get a lot more interesting as a person to keep me reading.
3/5. Multiple people told me to skip book 1, so this is book 2 of a long-running and beloved series of mysteries about a cop in Venice. This one is about a murdered American soldier leading to a conspiracy about toxic chemical dumping.
Eh. I’m in the market for a long mystery series to have a good wallow in, but this isn’t going to be it, I think. It’s not that it’s bad. Quite the opposite – there’s a delicacy and depth to the portrayal of a marriage here, in particular, that I enjoyed. And the mystery itself is deliberately unsatisfying in an interesting way. And the setting is, of course, compelling. But despite all that . . . no thanks. I’ve had my fill of this guy after one book, let alone thirty plus, even if I assume he becomes less of a chauvinist over the course of the books. He would have to do that and get a lot more interesting as a person to keep me reading.
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Date: 2023-08-05 09:28 pm (UTC)LA new noir 12 titles. Hansen wrote the series from the 1970s to early 1990s.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/52364-dave-brandstetter
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Date: 2023-08-06 01:28 pm (UTC)I have not, thanks for the rec!
Oh what lovely memories I have
Date: 2023-08-20 11:59 pm (UTC)...of these. The first mystery series I found where a queer hero was unremarkable; that is, he has to deal with bullshit, but the book acknowledges that it's bullshit.