What Are You Reading?

[Ironclad Alibi]

I finished "The Book of Dust" series.

I am now reading "Great North Road" by Peter F. Hamilton.

In AD 2142, where portal technology allows instantaneous travel to other planets, Newcastle police detective Sidney Hurst heads a high-tech investigation of the disturbing murder of a clone of the wealthy North family. Hurst has the added challenge of the politics and media associated with the high profile murder, as well as the opaque mystery itself. The body shows the same wounds as that of Bartram North, murdered twenty years ago on the tropical planet St Libra. The bio-fuel that flows from St Libra is a mainstay of Earth's economy and so powerful vested interests are watching over Hurst's shoulder.

Angela Tramelo was convicted and jailed for that murder but it seems that her story of an alien attack might be true. Tramelo, who has not aged in her twenty years in prison, is released into the custody of the Human Defence Alliance and taken on an expedition via the Newcastle gateway to St Libra.

A very good book that I have trouble putting down.

[Nunavut Pants]

Finished "Legends and Lattes", a lightweight fantasy book about an orc adventurer who retires to a city to sell this exotic new drink: Coffee.

Finally finished off "This Inevitable Ruin", the next book in the "Dungeon Crawler Carl" series. This covered the ninth floor, and wrapped up a couple of story arcs. While introducing more complications, of course!

Now working on "Automatic Noodle", a tale of four robots manning a restaurant in quasi-post-apocalyptic San Francisco. Haven't gotten very far in it yet.