So the only PD James book I’ve read before this one was The Children of Men, and while I did like that one for a lot of reasons, it’s hardly preparatory to read a one-off sci fi novel 30 years into a writer’s career to try to figure out what their mystery writing is like. So this one came across my Overdrive, and even though it’s the second in the series, I figured it was close enough. It’s a lot like the Martin Beck novels […]