Who Dun It?

First do you read? I mean other than blog posts. I’m betting you do as reading is reading and if you read blog posts you probably also read books. I could be wrong, but I like to think the blogosphere is a literate bunch.

Do you read mysteries? If so who’s your favorite writer?

I go through ‘fazes’. Sometimes sci-fi, sometimes historical fiction and sometimes mysteries.

In the mystery genre I have ‘discovered’ Lindsey Davis and her Falco series in ancient Rome. And Kerry Greenwood’s Phyrne Fisher series (set in 1920’s Australia). Oh, and Rhys Bowen and her Her Royal Spyness series (in 1920’s England and another series set in US about the same time).

But if you want the master (mistress) you cannot go wrong with Dame Agatha.

We bought a set of 12 of her mysteries years ago and every now and then I get the urge to read them and see if I can figure out who-dun-it. Yes, if I have read them once I should be able to remember who did it, but you know what? I don’t. I feel like Henry Fonda’s character in “On Golden Pond”, “It’s all new to me.” And honestly Agatha Christie was a master at slight of hand with clues.

Yesterday I went through the mystery section at the bookstore and picked up the Agatha Christie mysteries I didn’t have. Yes, I could go to a library, but I like books on my shelf when I want them. So in another year or two when I get the urge to read all her books again…my choices will be widened.

What genre’s do you like? What authors can you read again?