Barry Eisler’s Livia Lone books are about a cop that tracks down and kills child sex abusers. (not to mention just rapists in general).
I finished Murder in Mesopotamia by Dame Agatha Christie. I’m not sure about the ending, it’s a hella committment to stalking I must say that obsession is a powerful drug. Overall a good book, not one of her best, but still well worth the read. Would have liked more local “color” though.
Finished Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together, by Ilana Kurshan, which was excellent. Also finished Star Trek Lower Decks: Warp Your Own Way, by Ryan North. I enjoyed it, but I would have liked it much better as an actual episode. (I miss Lower Decks so much. It’s my all-time favorite Star Trek.)
Next up: Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer, by Heather Lende; and Jewel Box: Stories, by E. Lily Yu.
I’m a third of the way through Circle of Days by Ken Follett. It’s a quick read, despite its length, and I’d be rading it quicker if I had more free time.
My bedside reading is now The Penguin Book of Mermaids, which I’ve just started. On audio, I’m re-reading the Ken Fagles translation of The Iliad, read by Derek Jacobi. It still annoys me that they don’t give you the whole thing – it’s seriously abridged. His translation of The Odyssey is unabridged (and read by Ian McKellen!)
I started Wolf Worm by T.Kingfisher, a book that another of my favorite authors warned against eating while reading it. And there’s a picture of a botfly on the frontpiece… I am very worried for my stomach and my crawly skin.
It’s next up for me too! But I probably won’t get a chance to start until Monday.
My local used bookstore had Dungeon Crawler Carl on it’s display rack.. I grabbed it.
Can confirm.
Oh dear.. oh my.
I think I should warn you about Dungeon Crawler Carl as well… 
Yeah, I got that vibe after reading a couple reviews. sigh
Finished Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer, by Heather Lende, which was okay. Also finished Jewel Box: Stories, by E. Lily Yu, which was excellent. I rarely think all of the stories in an anthology are that good. The best was “Small Monsters”.
Next up: Things That Are Funny on a Submarine–But Not Really, by Yannick Murphy; and When Animals Rescue: Amazing True Stories about Heroic and Helpful Creatures, by Belinda Recio.
Finished The Fox by Frederick Forsyth. A fine cyber/spy novel about an English teenager who is afflicted by Asperger’s, but has an innate ability to hack through the world’s most impenetrable firewalls. He is recruited by the British government to do just that, and he manages to get inside the top-secret databases of Russia, Iran, and North Korea. From there, the government cyber experts take over, causing havoc to the military infrastructure of those nations. Naturally, the Bad Guys take offense and launch a campaign to get rid of the pesky lad.
Well-written and entertaining, and recommended. This was my first read by Forsyth, and I suspect it won’t be the last.
Next up: The Payback by Kashana Cauley.
Sadly, he died not that long ago. I highly recommend is first thriller – Day of the Jackal – and his second The Odessa File. I wasn’t so fond of Dogs of War, butt really liked The DEvil’s Alternative. His more recent books are of variable quality, but generally well above the usual run of thrillers. Forsyth does his homework (although I can point out several times that he either deliberately or by mistake is very wrong.)
Oh, shit, I had forgotten he wrote that. I read that decades ago and absolutely loved it!
So, okay, The Fox is my second Forsyth novel!
I finished Cards on the Table by Dame Agatha Christie, where in a game of Bridge is the setting for the murder and a valuable clue for Poirot. Easily one of her best books, the plotting, the characters and the twist all well executed.
Amsterdam : a history of the world’s most liberal city Russell Shorto
The story of the capital of the Netherlands from the Middle Ages to the present, and how it developed its famously tolerant attitudes toward religion and sex, among other things.
Good book
Recently read three dozen or so mysteries, mostly by Edward Marston but also including books by Tony Hillerman and Andrea Penrose, plus a few other books. Now reading two books:
When America First Met China, 19th-century history by Eric Jay Dolin – other books by him I read within the past few weeks were Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery and Survival at the Edge of the World (more 19th-century history, in the Falklands) and A Furious Sky: The Five-Hundred-Year History of America’s Hurricanes.
Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945, about the bombing of that city and the resulting firestorm, by Frederick Taylor. A couple weeks ago I read his Coventry: November 14, 1940, about the attack on that city.
Finished Wolf Worm, and that is one of the grossest damn things I ever read in my life! But also, it was really good and made me laugh more than once, sometimes right in the middle of being grossed out. 
I’m currently reading Trad Wife by Saratoga Schaefer, a novel about an online influencer who gets knocked up by a supernatural being. Gosh, it sounds bad when I say it like that. 
Doesn’t sound very traditional to me.