It's Mailbox Monday! Mailbox Monday gathers together for readers the books that came into the house last week. (feel free to share yours) Warning: Mailbox Monday can lead to envy, toppling TBR piles and humongous wish lists.
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Guess what's here!! Today!!! OMG. HEARTSTONE by CJ Sansom!!! Bwa hahahha! Evil wicked joyful laugh! I'm so happeeeeee! Squeeeee!
This is 5th of 5 in series featuring Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer in mid-16th century England. Here's a description:
Summer, 1545. England is at war. Henry VIII’s invasion of France has gone badly wrong, and a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel. As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth, the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen. The King has debased the currency to pay for the war, and England is in the grip of soaring inflation and economic crisis. Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr. Asked to investigate claims of “monstrous wrongs” committed against a young ward of the court, which have already involved one mysterious death, Shardlake and his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth. Once arrived, Shardlake and Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone; and Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettipace, a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam. The emerging mysteries around the young ward, and the events that destroyed Ellen’s family nineteen years before, involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend and an old enemy close to the throne. Events will converge on board one of the King’s great warships, primed for battle in
Portsmouth harbour . . .
It was just published and has 626 pages and comes with one of those attached ribbons as bookmark, isn't that cool? Yes, this is now my current read. This series is the measuring stick for good historical mysteries. I had let myself forget about it coming and when I opened the mailbox after a Monday at work, it was pure bliss.
Also in the mailbox since last week was GIRL FROM MARS by Julie Cohen This is a stand alone chick flick that I read over the weekend and was actually a fun read because the chick in question was a comic book artist, very nerdy with fun, nerdy friends.
On the Kindle, I received BAD BOY by Peter Robinson, just released last Tuesday, the latest in the Alan Banks procedurals.
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Steve has a gun club orientation thingy again tonight. I wish they hadn't moved Lie to Me to 8:00 which is the same time as Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations, forcing me to choose one over the other. What a bother.
Otherwise, gosh, I don't know what I'll be doing, I suppose I could, like, READ the NEW CJ SANSOM..... or something.
Much love,
PK the Bookeemonster
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