5 more Inspector Maigret's books read this year, reread Travels with my Aunt, always enjoyable and read The Hand of Dr. Fu Manchu, not as rude to different groups as I expected it to be. New author this year Jay Rayner, UK food critic, writes well, very witty.
- Duck Season David McAninch Author moves to Gascony for 9 months, eats lots of duck and writes about the people he met.
- At the Villa of Reduced Circumstances, Alexander McCall Smith (AMS), third in a series of 4 small books concerning Professor Moritz-Maria von Igelfel. Strange happenings here.
- Adventures of the Mad Monk Ji Gong, Gui Xiaoting DNF
- Suffer the Little Children, Donna Leon, Takes place in Venice, main character is a police detective.
- Atomic Habits, James Clear
- About Face, Donna Leon
- Beastly Things, Donna Leon
- Maigret Travels, Georges Simenon (GS) Portrayed on TV recently by Rowan Atkinson, rather well I thought, but only 4 episodes were produced.
- The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
- The Patriarch, Martin Walker French policeman in small French town.
- The Dead Ringer, MC Beaton
- Maigret's Doubts, GS
- 44 Scotland Street, A Time of Love and Tartan, AMS
- No Echo, Anne Holt The author's series with character Hanne, I enjoy some more than others.
- The Source of the Nile, John Hanning Spike DNF Written in a journal entry style, too much data to keep in ones head.
- In Dust and Ashes, Anne Holt
- Toujours Provance, Peter Mayle Not as good as some of his earlier books.
- The Hardman Legends/Cycling Gods
- ???, Ann Cleves
- Fatal Pursuit, Martin Walker
- 13 (short stories), Dick Francis
- Monsieur Pamplemousse Afloat, Micheal Bond (MB)
- Monsieur Pamplemousse and the Tangled Web, MB
- The King's City, Don Jourday DNF
- Travels with my Aunt, Grahame Greene
- The Dead Season: A Mystery in Florence, Christobel Kent Very good book about an ex-police private investigator searching for a missing person, first time reading this author.
- Cold Earth, Anne Cleeves
- Maigret's Secret, GS
- The Hand of Fu Manchu, Sax Roamer
- The 10 Food Commandments, Jay Rayner
- Brief History of Capitalism, Yanis Varoufakis
- Maigret and the Ghost, GS
- Maigret's Anger, GS
- Greedy Man in a Hungry World, Jay Rayner
- Death at La Fenice, Donna Leon
