Miker
What everyone else has said about the weakness of Edwin of
the Iron Shoes. Marianne mentions The Tree of Death - that's
in another series featuring Elena Oliverez, and she's really
an amateur sleuth character - I was disappointed by the third
book featuring her a couple of years ago.
Trophies and Dead Things, a mid series book, seems like a
good suggestion. I think it's one of the four that the
Women's Press chose to launch Muller over here, along with
Something on a Sunday and The Shape of Dread - can't remember
which the fourth was. At the time I borrowed many of them off
my aunt, grandmother and Leeds City Libraries as I was
penniless, and I lost some of the ones I did buy in the
course of moving house and even city about 10 times in 7
years, so I read them totally out of order until Wolf in the
Shadows.
I've liked some of the recent books in the series but they're
too personal case-ish to be a good introduction - it takes
away the proper dynamic if a PI never seems to be doing
for-hire work any more.
Luci
>> I just finished Muller's EDWIN OF THE IRON
SHOES, the first in her Sharon
McCone series. It's my first and probably last experience
with Muller. Pretty drab fare. It seemed like a cozy with a
thin coat of hardboiled paint on it. Not overly convincing
and not very compelling. Thumbs down.
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