tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post8361975505127912928..comments2024-03-29T08:48:03.820-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: A Fox in Lamb's ClothingLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-7530222828596692622023-02-27T16:08:49.732-05:002023-02-27T16:08:49.732-05:00Good example, Candace. Glad to have you on board ...Good example, Candace. Glad to have you on board here.Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-22952132664813431002023-02-27T15:40:05.870-05:002023-02-27T15:40:05.870-05:00I'm not sure I'd want to work with Vera an...I'm not sure I'd want to work with Vera and drive round in her jeep. She's a dear to watch or read, but working with her????Candace Robbhttps://www.candacerobbbooks.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-84107636376361654172023-02-15T21:30:35.790-05:002023-02-15T21:30:35.790-05:00B.K. Stevens wrote a series with a terrifying, phy...B.K. Stevens wrote a series with a terrifying, physically imposing female investigator who loved to boss people around. However, Bonnie’s character came with a couple of humanizing twists. One was this rough and tough hard-boiled broad melted around her police detective fiancé. The other was she was entirely, utterly cowed by her mother to the extent she couldn’t tell her she wanted to marry the nice policeman.<br /><br />Rob, I haven’t begun the series, but it sounds like a must-do. Thanks, my friend.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-43801019652500160472023-02-15T20:26:24.864-05:002023-02-15T20:26:24.864-05:00The first season was very faithful to the book, T...The first season was very faithful to the book, The second is less so (if what I laughingly call my memory is accurate), but still close. I understand Apple+ has signed up for two more seasons (i.e. books). By the way, at Left Coast Crime last year Mick Herron talked about the novelty of being the wise authority in the writer's room. "I said, oh, I don't think Lamb would say that. And they reply, he did, on page 127..."Robert Loprestihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08844889305615182897noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-46390387079646475732023-02-15T19:36:15.170-05:002023-02-15T19:36:15.170-05:00I have GOT to read these books. I watched the firs...I have GOT to read these books. I watched the first season of SLOW HORSES and loved it. Thanks for the reminder, Rob!Brian Thorntonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-42041940784104808552023-02-15T12:43:09.687-05:002023-02-15T12:43:09.687-05:00True but few lions would be admired were they lion...True but few lions would be admired were they lionesses and vice versa.MI6https://www.blogger.com/profile/08416815195914841290noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-51827349746484953182023-02-15T10:47:04.153-05:002023-02-15T10:47:04.153-05:00I can't think of any recurring female characte...I can't think of any recurring female characters in fiction who are allowed to be as generally flawed and flatulent as Jackson Lamb. Even in fiction, women have to be relatively attractive - or very old - in order to recur. Those who "who insist on doing things their own way and get away with it because they are usually right": Liza Cody's Eva Wylie (female wrestler, lot of fun), to some extent V. I. Warshawski, and from the the non-mystery genre, Miss Mapp (Mapp & Lucia series).Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-35897286165407358132023-02-15T10:29:50.773-05:002023-02-15T10:29:50.773-05:00I finished Slow Horses and immediately bought Dead...I finished Slow Horses and immediately bought Dead Lions (2nd in the series). No flashy James Bond here, just regular people trained as spies, but they have screwed up in some fashion.R.T. Lawtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15523486296396710227noreply@blogger.com