For your consideration... or the puppy gets it

Here are a couple books that you may like to consider purchasing lest I send the boys round to acrimoniously divorce you from your limbs...

First up is A Gentle Axe by R.N. Morris who is none other than Roger Morris, author of last year's Taking Comfort (you all bought that, right, because you know how angry I get when people don't take heed of my recommendations - I have a basement of dead puppies to prove it).

A Gentle Axe is a murder mystery set in St. Petersburg, 1867 and features the character of Porfiry Petrovich, the detective who investgated the Raskolnikov case in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. If that isn't enough to convince you then I'll add that the novel involves a murdered dwarf packed into a suitcase. Come on, what more do you want from your fiction?

The second book is Rachael King's novel The Sound of Butterflies. Set in 1903, the novel tells the tale of Thomas Edgar, an enthusiastic butterfly collector. He embarks on a scientific exhibition to the Amazon in the hope of finding a mythical butterfly that he can name in honour of his wife, Sophie. When he returns, however, he is haggard, gaunt and his experiences have rendered him mute. He gradually attempts to tell Sophie the truth of his voyage, an expedition that descended into a lurid tale of wealth, greed and murder.

Rachael is not only a lovely women who I have had the pleasure of meeting but she also dropped a sprog a few months ago and needs the extra pennies to keep her newborn in nappies. So click on the cover and buy the book or else.