Aberdeen, Iowa, and Florida

Yesterday I passed Stockholm's central station twice - one of the nice features about the train station is the "Pocket Shop". Where one can find all manner of pocket book. I picked out one and got lucky. I have just finished Stuart MacBride's "Cold Granite". It is his debut novel and another is coming in May. His character is Logan McRae - detective sergeant in Aberdeen's police force. He gets a lot of physical abuse, and sometimes gives as good as he gets. It was a good read. The Iowa connection is DeKalb. Home of Michael Satariano, the little boy from Road to Perdition grown up. In Max Allan Collins' "Road to Purgatory" we get to find out what happens - Frank Nitti, Elliot Ness and Al Capone all populate the pages of this novel - and there is another book "Road to Paradise" to fill up the trilogy. Finally - Florida and the Everglades where Max Freeman, former Philly cop, has taken up residence after his retirement from the force. There are four Freeman novels by Jonathon King "The Blue Edge of Midninght", "A visible Darkness", "Shadow Men", and the one I've recently read "A Killing Night". This series is enjoyable, if not believable, but that's not why I read them - to believe them I mean. They are entertaining and Florida is always a kick to read about.