An anthology as hard going as all those treks to the North Pole. I abandoned rather than perished. I’ve got The Ends Of The Earth: An Anthology box set; not sure I’ll bother with Vol 2, The Antarctic.
Publisher page: The Arctic – Elizabeth Kolbert (Ed)
Four stories – three of them quite long, the last, shorter one, really sweet – featuring supporting characters from Falco and Albia’s Rome.
Author page: Voices of Rome – Lindsey Davis
Global warming; melting glaciers; a frozen body emerges and a cold case revives.
Didn’t realise this was the first in a new series revolving around retired Detective Konráð.
How many tortured male Detectives can there be in Rekyavik?
Publisher page: The Darkness Knows – Arnaldur Indriðason
An excellent book covering history, geography, geology and nature, exploration, mapping and mountaineering, politics, religion and culture of the high Himalaya.
Highly recommended reading if you’re planning a trip to these mountainous regions of modern day Tibet, Xinjiang, Pakistan, India, Bhutan, Nepal, China.
Author page: Himālaya: Exploring the Roof of the World – John Keay
A dismembered body and a sword wielding scion of one of Istanbul’s leading crime families, a Roma birthday party interrupted by a rooftop sniper…. gang wars threaten to erupt in Istanbul. As Inspector Süleyman and team conduct the formal investigations, retired Inspector İkmen conducts a series of apparently inconsequential and unconnected conversations with some of his myriad of contacts in Istanbul.
Enjoyed the people and the plot but I really didn’t like the ending.
Publisher page: Double Illusion – Barbara Nadel