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Lethal White opens where Career of Evil ended, at the wedding of Robin Ellacott to her long-time fiancé, where events soon conspire to establish a subplot of jarred relationships which threads its way alongside the main storyline (building on a will/won't they that fans of Moonlighting will be familiar with).

Even in handy paperback format Lethal White is a weighty tome, one that offers hours of reading pleasure but doesn't lend itself well to the daily commute. Despite the increase in pages from the previous book (and resulting strain on my already sore back from lugging it to work and back), the latest tale thankfully doesn't have the same tendency to wander away with the plot which the third book suffers with. Recommended.

I picked up American By Day whilst meandering around the piles of novels in a well known high street bookseller and, based solely on the blurb written on the back (which sold the book as a Scandi-flavoured crime thriller with a fish-out-of-water lead), decided to take a punt. And, whilst the précis on the rear of the book is technically correct, there is much more to this tale than the crime that leads our Norwegian protagonist across the pond; this a slow, measured social satire that uses a visitor's experience of small town America to take a wry, raw look at the US as a whole (as well as providing a text book take on how best to evade your pursuer if you're ever cornered in a supermarket or department store). Definitely recommended.