What Fiction are you reading this week, April 28, 2019?

[dweller]

8. I'm all over the board..

for I love a good read... went through a Michael Connelly Harry Bosch and segued into a Alexander Campion thrift shop mystery of a French inspector investigating the Death of a Chef, fun with lots of foodie refs, and as I'm in the service industry, considered taking it into work to read and leaving it around in view to give the chef a quizzical glimpse...
then found a pristine copy of a recent (2017) Haken Nesser 'The Inspector and Silence' that I'll keep for the library... searched online for more to follow up , as I like the calm intensity of his investigatory tutorials...

but mostly I need the break from the political mishmash on DU, not that I don't want to know what is happening daily in the insanity of the madman in office, I just need the break into fictive madness also

so after Nesser I dropped into a local used and new bookstore my daughter, sil, and grandson had given me a gift certificate for my bd to see what was to offer... I'd already found a Bosch, a Nesbo and another there, looked around... no luck, so left... was on the sidewalk outside perusing a rack (no luck) and decided to go back inside again and found a rack of $1 paperbacks...

picked up an Adrian McKinty 'Police At the Station, and They Don't Look Friendly' ... a continuation of the Sean Duffy series... I read McKnty's 'Dead Trilogy' years before, and other works so knew it would be fun and distractful and help to keep me mind from the political shitshow for a bit...
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p.185, during an interview with a suspect into the murder of a drug dealer by crossbow, Duffy and team are checking a lead with a Bulgarian in a snug in a pub...
"You I trust to do do the right thing, Duffy. Perhaps I would have kept the information to myself if I did not trust you" Yavarov said and finished his vodka. He took a sip of the nasty looking lager.
"You have tried Harp?" he asked.
"Yes" we all said together.
"It is good no?"
"Maybe it's an acquired taste," I said to be polite. (Belfast pub Harp was an acquired taste like caprophagia or getting pissed on by hookers.)
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and at that point I'm laughing so hard I want to wet meself and boom, I'm back on DU checking the news...

ymmv,

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