boooooooooks.

[schmerica]

You guys, I'm looking for book recommendations. What can you point me towards in the way of:

a) your favorite Arthurian-inspired novels
b) your favorite Trojan War-inspired novels
c) good mystery series (= likable hero/heroine with relationships that change and grow from book to book, along with the installments being good books on their own)

Comments

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

a. firelord by parke godwin

c. I love the Elizabeth George Lynley series, but do yourself a favor and stop before the last two. I'm utterly addicted to Anne Perry's Pitt and Monk novels, but at the same time, well, they're melodramatic and more than a little overwrought. Still, she can PLOT. I generally can't put them down by the last 100 pages.

[malnpudl.livejournal.com]

I second the rec for Parke Godwin's Arthurian series. Awesome.

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

Awesome -- thank you!

[callmesandy.livejournal.com]

Pitt and Monk are actually two different series, btw. And there's more than ten of each. :)

If it helps, have you ever seen Heavenly Creatures? The movie? You know how it's based on a true story. Anne Perry was played by Kate Winslet. So it's not just murder mysteries, it's murder mysteries written by someone who took part in one in her teens.