Current Reading: DeKok and the Dead Harlequin

Current Reading: DeKok and the Dead
Harlequin
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I take it that everyone in the world has been reading the DeKok series by Baantjer except me. But finally I'm immersed in my first--though not the first--and I'm pleasantly surprised. I guess I shy away from series of this sort. I'm not sure why. I think in part it's because they tend to be heavy on dialogue. But at any rate, I'm quite enjoying this. DeKok is a great leading character, and the mystery he's faced with in this one, at least, is most compelling: at the outset, he receives a note asking for an appointment from a man who says he has determined to commit murder. I'm more than halfway through and the mystery is still compelling.

Mel, meanwhile, having finished Junie B. Jones Cheater Pants, has moved on to Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus.