You first, Sock Boy

@nancyterhune.bsky.social
This made me think of you...and of Harry.

If you're looking for some small distraction from the daily horrors of real life in today's America, consider the brilliant, dark but fictional DI Tom Thorne detective series by Mark Billingham. #crimefiction At least in Thorne's world the bad guys usually pay the price.

#Handsoff
My favorite so far:

Temporary Respite.
#crimefiction by @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social
The Ruin, the first in the Cormac Reilly series.
Send me your recommendations
for the best crime fiction writers.

Words written for Charlie Parker by @jconnollybooks.bsky.social seem fitting for this of all days. For everything, there is a season.

What is my code or your code? Thinking a lot about Irish writer John Connolly's fictional character Charlie Parker. He sure has a code, one he is developing the hard way: by trying to do the right thing.

John Lawton: Then We Take Berlin. It's the superb writing as much as it is the plot or characters or the historical setting. Not a thriller so much as an imagining of Post War Berlin with espionage and the black market as the context. Good sentences make you stop and reread them more than once.

I brough this over from my bird TL.

So warm and cuddly.

Hillary in the rain. Found this photo from the last day of the 2016 election campaign.

John F. Kennedy campaigning in West Virginia in 1960

The Swan Vesta, "the smoker's match", appears frequently in espionage novels centered in London during WWII. For example: The Black Out by John Lawton. The first of the Inspector Troy novels.

Here's a photo I poached from that other place. No photographer attribution. But, this is a great one. A friend of mine who died recently loved Shoebills. I was thinking of him when I came across your TL.

PeeWee

Respite: Book Rec. John Lawton's Inspector Troy series. An antidote for anyone looking for a way to check out of politics for an hour or two. It's restorative.
#JohnLawton #InspectorTroy