Well it's summer. It's seriously summer at the new house - it's seriously seriously seriously seriously hot. Which you'd think would be good reading time, but I'm really having bad attacks of the guilts if I sit down in the afternoon's with a book - particularly as I'm STILL looking for missing coffee cups in boxes.
There's going to be some great books out this year - with new offerings from Garry Disher, Peter Temple and Geoff McGeachin's 3rd in his series already out and about. Let's hope there's even more and that some of the "girls" get in on the act as well.
I'm not sure why, but there's very little chat about some of the lesser known crime writers from these parts around that I ever see, so I'm looking to start a new 2009 "tradition". Wednesday Waffles (now who wants to take bets on when I'll forget the first one!) will be all about little-known authors who deserve a mention. I've done this in very erractic terms in the past and I think it's time I stopped faffing about and got serious - so stand by for next Wednesday!
In the meantime I'm really enjoying Dave Franklin's English Toss on Planet Andong - it's not overtly crime, I guess I'd classify it as a bit of a rant novel, but Dave does rant better than most people I've read - and it's fun and decidedly not-PC. I'm also nearly finished with the sublime Val McDermid's latest A Darker Domain - it's a ripper of a crime novel with very very good characters and it's keeping me awake much later than I should be given the amount of lifting and carting that's required at the new place (incidentally if you have nothing better to do with your life - http://blogs.sakienvirotech.com/dirt(link is external) will keep you up to date with the slog that is "the new life").