Just finished reading "The Black Country", by Alex Grecian, which is book two in Grecian's "Scotland Yard Murder Squad" series. I thought it was every bit as good (if not better) than his first novel (The Yard). I'll definitely be picking up books 3 and 4 in the near future.

I'm currently immersed in James Ellroy's "Perfidia", which is book one in the "new L.A. Quartet series." Nobody writes about 1940's era L.A. like Ellroy. The man is a master. I'm only about a hundred pages in, but so far I am transfixed. Ellroy hasn't lost his touch.