tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post257725751656114135..comments2024-03-11T00:52:06.529+10:30Comments on MYSTERIES in PARADISE: Don't Always Hit the Mark #3Kerriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13581470363339796352noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-35453571959023262792009-10-16T19:54:12.503+10:302009-10-16T19:54:12.503+10:30Margot is right -- returning to our most favoured ...Margot is right -- returning to our most favoured detectives, especially when they live in parts we particularly like to visit, has about it much of visiting with friends. Leon has been on my A+ list since I started to read her novels, beginning with the first. I always embark on series with the first published when possible, though a number of factors, from library holdings to the oddities of publication in translation, may work against doing so. Even when the 'series' is not more in the nature of a serial, something becoming rather common lately, e.g. Jo Nesbo, Robert Wilson, it allows one to watch the development of the characters, which in some cases, e.g., Dalziel and Pascoe, is considerable. This very day I shall be collecting About Face, so I rather wish you'd given it more than 4.4, but we shall see. What I do like very much is the high mark you give Suffer the Little Children. I was a trifle miffed over reviews that criticized that entry for being gloomy, less of a mystery than usua,l lacking in humour, almost devoid of gustatory interludes, and thus below par. It was, in fact, all of those things --except the last. In that book, with particularly serious subject matter, Leon took a somewhat different approach, and different does not mean sub-par. We cannot criticize authors simply because they choose not to serve up what we expected or wanted.Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-4767812458557430362009-10-16T19:16:03.130+10:302009-10-16T19:16:03.130+10:30I really enjoyed Friends in High Places in which f...I really enjoyed Friends in High Places in which from memory Brunetti finds out his entire apartment is illegal. <br />They are very good and I love the characters especially Paola and Signorina Elektra oops I have been warned by Bernadette no drooling. Seriously the warm relationship between Guidio and Paola is such a rarity in crime fiction it is like a breath of fresh air.Uriah Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02046023583067265187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8273911883856580200.post-48760909998347350552009-10-16T11:40:58.181+10:302009-10-16T11:40:58.181+10:30I agree completely that part of the appeal of Leon...I agree completely that part of the appeal of Leon's books is that she deals with underlying issues like discrimination, the environment and the like. I haven't read as much of her work as you have, but I already consider Comissario Brunetti a friend and I look forward to spending more time with him : ).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com