OT: good books

[bikerz]

If you like mysteries suspense, you can go wrong w/anything Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine writes.

Mysteries/crime novels - I love 'em.

Hear hear on Ruth Rendell/Barbara Vine - very interesting, subtle stuff, and Rendell's Wexford police procedural series are a lot of fun and not as dark as the other books. P.D. James are also very good.

There's a very interesting mystery series (4 so far) set in Tibet by Elliot Pattison - The Skull Mantra, Water Touching Stone, Bone Mountain and Beautiful Ghosts. The protagonist is a Chinese police inspector who, due to political machinations, has been imprisoned in Tibet. He becomes involved with and affected by the situation of the Tibetans and specifically the Buddhist monks he meets while imprisoned. The author is a veteran journalist, with a lot of experience in the area - he writes well, the plot and characters and very engaging, and the impression of life in Tibet under Chinese rule is vivid. Great stuff.

I'm also going to extract a list of "books to read next" from this thread!