New batch!
Wilkie Collins, Legacy of Cain. This wasn't my favorite Collins. He tried to do an experiment with the two main characters, to keep their identities obscured for the first portion of the book, and the end result was that I strongly sympathized with the character he meant to be the villain and didn't think much of the character he meant to be the heroine - and I got the impression that wasn't supposed to be how I felt.
James Ellroy, Suicide Hill. A remarkably short work for Ellroy, and one that felt a bit like a coda to his various Lloyd Hopkins books, but it was a fast and fascinating read and wrapped up Hopkins's career in a way that made sense on a number of levels.
Rhys Bowen, Murphy's Law. The first in a mystery series set in turn of the (20th) century New York, I found the book fast-paced and interesting and the main character, an Irish immigrant, entertaining enough to follow her adventures into the second book, even though I'm not sure I buy all the twists and turns contained within.
Homer, The Odyssey. To be truthful, I find this the least likeable of the big three epics - both The Iliad and The Aeneid are more interesting, and I'm not a big fan of Odysseus. Nonetheless, he does have some fantastic classic adventures, and it's a book well worth reading and owning.
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