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I do not own the other books, but read them years ago, and I did notice the discrepancy.
It makes sense that Saturn would be far more expensive than Jupiter. It is twice the fuel cost.
In the last week I have bought, from the Dillon series, Thunder Point, The Judas Gate, A Devil Is Waiting and The Death Trade. By the time I am ready to begin, I hop to have the first few books in the series ready.
Not a master author, but a master storyteller, and I like how his books are discretely connected.
Never read anything from this author before, amazed at how well written it is.
A woman gets murdered on her way from work in an orchestra. The detective in charge soon gets hated by the killer who goes after his family.
The title is an analogy. The orchestra pit is what separates the actors from the audience in the theatre, illusion from reality.
Dead Wake, the story of the Lusitania. This is very well done and far more interesting than Mr. Mercedes.
A murder mystery with flashbacks to WW2.Excellent writing.
His Seville quartet are actually quite good too
reading
S King - Revival
John Connolly - A song of shadows
coming soon
Phillip Kerr - the lady from Zagreb
Jo Nesbo - Blood on snow
Roger Hobbs - Ghost Man
Bill Granger - There Are No Spies
also dipping in and out of Jeremy Clarkson - The Top Gear Years.
Swedish mass murder mystery.
@Thunderfinger, Mankell's has nothing to do with Wallender does it? I thought for a while there he would introduce Wallender's daughter as the lead in a new series.
@4EverBonded, it is not a Wallander book and has no connection to that universe as far as I can tell, <This being the first Mankell book I read.
The heroine of the book is a female judge, and there are threads back to America and China in the 19th century. Not a bad book.
I have read all four books twice now and I must confess I can't say anything bad about them except for one little thing we should probably discuss after you have finished reading them. :-)
Gentry Lee actually takes some heat for the final three novels. I figure he did most of the writing anyway since Clarke was getting up there in years, less productive and more willing to collaborate with other writers. Also, Rendez-Vous With Rama, the one book in this series Clarke wrote all by himself, features many of the elements that are typical for Clarke, like the fact that human beings are hardly significant to the story - it's all about the ship. Rama II, however, offers more conventional storytelling, a farcry from Clarke's usual stuff, with more emphasis on people than in the first book.
The complaints I have read about the later books I cannot agree with though. I love the epicness of the story, the big mysteries of the story and the writing. This is the kind of sci-fi I enjoy tremendously.
currently reading
Joseph Finder - Vanished (kind of an old school thriller in the Ludlum vein)
Erik Larson - The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (one of the earliest documented serial killer and about the world fair in Chicago), a really interesting vision on a world long gone showing that the olden days were most certainly not better.
Best Cato Isaksen book I have read thus far.
American novel set during the civil war.