I went through a phase of reading Plaidy's historical novels back when I was a teen, so there was a nostalgia element here. I enjoyed it. It focused on the years before Katherine married Henry VIII, so it was a little fresher than I'd expected. Plaidy's style skims along the surface a little, but it seems to work for her.
Three Kings of Cologne (Roger the Chapman Mysteries) - Kate Sedley
I do love a good medieval whodunnit from time to time. This was an author new to me, but with an engaging narrator in Roger and a nice sense of time and place, I did enjoy this one.
LabRat
Athos: If you'd told us what you were doing, we might have been able to plan this properly. Aramis: Yes, sorry. Athos: No, no, by all means, let's keep things suicidal.
