I'm Sorry, Eliot Patison

I really thought that when I started Lord of Death, the most recent book in Eliot Patison's Inspector Shan series, that I would read it all the way through and not stop about halfway though and read another book or two, to clear myself of the horrors going on in Patison's book.

This turned out not to be the case, and in reviewng, it turns out that I read MORE books in my break from Lord of Death than any other Patison book.

What did I read?

Ground Zero, the latest Repairman Jack book (great if you're into the series, not so much if you aren't)

Two Nero Wolfe Books-The Red Box and In The Best Families (More on Rex Stout in another post because he deserves his own post for being so influential on my life)

Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (beautiful and haunting with an end from Madame Bovary)

Which means it took me a week or two to return to Lord of Death, which is a shame because it really was good-Patison's usual mix of horror with a glimmer of hope at the end. I recommend everything-they were all great in their own way-but I have a huge soft soft for Rex Stout. More on that later.