tamaranth | Bodies in the Bookshop

Last Thurs, to Heffers with

anef for their Bodies in the Bookshop event in which a plethora of crime writers lurk near their books and leap out to sell them to you. (Some more fervently than others.) I was mainly there for Laurie R. King, though also got to say hello to Alison Bruce, whose Cambridge Blue I read recently(ish). Ms Bruce's next novel -- out now, I'd have bought it if it'd been paperback -- is set in and around Mill Rd Cemetery, which she reports is guitar-shaped when seen from above.

I squeed at Ms King (whom I was unsurprised to discover is tall):

anef helped with grown-up questions. LRK hates driving in Cambridge; is working on next Mary Russell novel, which is Pirates of Penzance territory; thought Robert Downey Jr very decorative in the recent Sherlock Holmes movie, and Jude Law surprisingly good as Dr Watson, but wasn't impressed with criminalisation of Irene Adler.

Anyway, we came away with a few books, including free ones. It was just like a convention, only smaller and with nicer wine.

In other news: too damned hot; more blood tests Thurs; still meepish post-juring; technology pretty much working though did not back up Palm properly pre-crash; have this morning been patronised by a 'Jobseeker's Session', where a nice DSS lady read out a Powerpoint presentation on ~~the bleedin' obvious~~ how to find a job. Personally I thought I'd look down the back of the sofa. Or possibly under the cat.