The Irresistible Urge to Fall for Your Enemy, Brigitte Knightley
<p>2025 romantic fantasy, first of a pair. Osric Mordaunt is an assassin,
but finds himself in need of very specialised healing. So specialised
that only one person has a chance of doing it; and she's Aurienne
Fairhrim, opposed to everything he stands for.</p>
The Weekly Challenge 333: Duplicate Straights Are a Line of Zeroes
<p>I’ve been doing the <a href="http://theweeklychallenge.org/">Weekly
Challenges</a>. <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-333/">The
latest</a>
involved Cartesian coordinates and a light sequence modification.
(Note that this ends today.)</p>
Penric and the Bandit, Lois McMaster Bujold
<p>2024 fantasy novella in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as
Chalion). Roz the bandit has fallen out with his gang, and is looking
for a new pigeon to pluck. And the traveller he meets at an inn seems
like a good prospective victim. He even has a treasure map…</p>
A Ruse of Shadows, Sherry Thomas
<p>2024 mystery story, eighth of the <em>Lady Sherlock</em> series. Charlotte
Holmes is accused of murder, and the circumstances are explained in
flashback.</p>
Stories of the Raksura Volume One, Martha Wells
<p>2014 fantasy anthology: four stories of the Raksura.</p>
Ambassador For Mars, Glynn Stewart
<p>2024 SF, fifteenth of its series. Tension rises in the remote Chimera
system, while everyone waits for the inevitable alien attack.</p>
The Weekly Challenge 332: Odd Date
<p>I’ve been doing the <a href="http://theweeklychallenge.org/">Weekly
Challenges</a>. <a href="https://theweeklychallenge.org/blog/perl-weekly-challenge-332/">The
latest</a>
involved string conversion and analysis. (Note that this ends today.)</p>
The Case Is Closed, Patricia Wentworth
<p>1937 mystery/thriller. The Everton case has been closed for a year;
everyone knows that Geoffrey Grey shot his uncle in a rage at
having been disinherited, and even his wife Marion has her doubts of
his innocence. But her cousin Hilary meets someone in a train who
drops dark hints…</p>
Roger BW 😷