Aberdeen and Northumberland

My reading list has been dominated by books from the US lately. Courtesy of my library, however, a gift of two new books from the British Isles came in this week. The first is a continuation of the Logan McRae series by Stuart MacBride - "Broken Skin". This book like the other is a mixture of dark and funny. The screw-up DI Steel is back giving everyone a hard time and emjoying the pornography lead in part of the mystery. MacBride has several plot lines going all at once, not necessarily linked. Another comedy aside is the fat DI Insch who is directing an amateur production of the Mikado. The second book is by Anne Cleeves; her latest "Hidden Depths". It wasn't as good as Raven Black, but a fairly interesting story about several dysfunctional families. This is evidently the third book in a series featuring DI Vera Stanhope, a chubby middle-aged spinster as tough police investigator. I guess they can be a back-up if I need something to read on a long trip.