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I love CC's books. They are funny and there is always a lesson to learn in there.
But... hmmmm... It was funny how the writer in the story is named Conrad Coralbank. Co... Co... as in Colin Cotterill? But it was a distraction too. Somehow the real crime in this novel was a bit too nightmarish and odd. Did he dream all this one night? It had that quality of being too irrational. uh... 3.5

"Look, I don’t suppose I could get something to eat, could I? You had nothing but stale M&Ms in your room.”
“You ate them?”
“My stomach was rumbling.”
I walked Chompu to the kitchen, having decided it was best not to tell him those M&Ms were Gogo’s (dog) antidiarrheals. I made him a breakfast that promised to be with him for a long time.

Ed the grass cutter (...) He was with his girlfriend, Lulu, the slutty hairdresser. If men were awarded prizes for their taste in women, Ed had a Raspberry right there in his arms. He could have had me, if only he’d been more patient. He hadn’t learned the city rules. He’d expected me to agree to a date after one asking. That’s the way they do it down here. If you say “no,” it means “no.” So you give up. Ridiculous.

There is a date for the end of the world and in a matter of months society disintegrates. People face the end in different ways, mass suicide, prayers, made up theories. The last policeman faces it asking questions more and more in a hurry. He needs to find his sister and on his way he refuses refuge from all kind of little heavens. They are not his own... This series was sad and top notch.

Whatever happened to Jeannette?
Last update I have from her is from October. She was going to read The Feast by Margaret Kennedy and then nothing. Deleted user?? :0 Huh :/

He parted his long beard and knotted the two strands together behind his neck.

**blink
wow :D

So dated

I couldn't stop reading. It's funny even if the jokes aren't new and the pieces of history are interesting. We went to visit the Hanging Gardens, we saw the assassination of Becket and Mary Queen of Scots' court this time.
The only problem I have with these books is that voice of doom always saying in advance what's going to happen next. Geez...

We had arrived at Mauritius in 1666. In London, the Great Fire was raging and the Lord Mayor was saying dismissively that the blaze was so small a woman might piss it out. He probably wasn't re-elected. Bet he got an earful from the missus as well.

What sort of idiot are you?’
‘I’m hoping I’m the idiot who works for you, Dr Maxwell.’
‘So am I. You sound too good to be true. What’s your position on chocolate?’
‘You can never have enough,’ he said, pulling a handful of miscellaneous chocolate bars from mysterious depths.
‘You’re hired,’ I said. ‘Starting now.’

I really didn't see those two last lines coming lol

If I weren't so lazy this is the kind of book I'd write. Yay! :D
This was fun. Max has a unique voice and the attention spam of a goldfish.
Like other readers point it's only a bit odd that only Mrs deWinter calls her Madeleine and only the Chief calls her Lucy. I thought he was saying another woman's name in the middle of...
But this doesn't pretend to be serious. Max refers to Lisa Simpson for wisdom after all.

... Running for his life and looking anxiously over his shoulder, he’d run slap bang into a horse’s bottom and knocked himself senseless. The entire unit lay face down on the ground laughing. Even the Boss uttered something between a snort and a cough. The security section clubbed together and sent a Get Well Soon card to the horse, who promptly ate it. That’s St Mary’s for you.

‘Can you shoot? Have you ever fired a weapon? Can you ride? Can you swim? How fit are you?’
‘No. No. Yes. Yes. Not at all.’
He paused and looked me up and down. ‘Could you kill a man?’
I looked him up and down. ‘Eventually.’

3 pages read and I'm already skimming hmm...

‘Where is it?’
‘Parked on the street.’
‘Keys?’
‘Didn’t they teach you anything in prison?’