What are you reading the week of Sunday, February 22, 2015?

[scarletwoman]

Good afternoon, all!

It was another 4 book week for me:

The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich - lovely book, a very pleasurable read!
The Bone Seeker by M.J. McGrath - 3rd book of the Edie Kiglatuk mystery series which is mainly located in the Canadian far north-east among the Inuit, and features a wonderful abundance of detail about Inuit culture, history, and Artic survival skills - fascinating stuff! I had read the first two books of the series a few years ago, and only recently remembered to look for the latest book and order it from the library. I rate all three of them highly and hope a 4th book will be forthcoming.
Lamb to the Slaughter and Cradle to Grave, books #4 & #6 of Aline Templeton's DI Marjory Fleming series. (#5, sadly, is not available in my inter-library loan system). This series has been a wonderful discovery, all taking place in south-west Scotland, with great characters, excellent plots, and fabulous locations. Exactly the type of Police Procedural series I love best.

I've just started book #7 of the Fleming series, Evil for Evil, and then it looks like I'll have to wait for #8 - although it was published in 2013, it's not showing up in the inter-library list so far. #9 of the series is due out sometime this year, and I'll definitely be on the lookout for it.

After Fleming #7, I'll be heading back up to Norway with Anne Holt's The Lion's Mouth, the most recent book of her Hanne Wilhelmsen series to be translated into English. Anne Holt is one of my favorite Nordic Noir authors, and I've read every book of hers that's currently available in translation - I only wish more would get translated!

Waiting for me at the library to pick up this week, are German author Nele Neuhaus' The Snow Queen, and Alaskan author Eowyn Ivey's The Snow Child.

The Neuhaus book is part of her Bodenstein & Kirchhoff police procedural series and only the 3rd to be translated into English, although there are 6 books in the series in German. I've read the other two translated books and they were excellent. She's a popular author in Europe, so I can only hope that the rest of her books get translated someday.

The Snow Child is something different - a standalone and not a mystery novel, but it sounded intriguing and having lived in Alaska for six years, I generally enjoy returning there in books.

So, what are you reading this week?