code meets music

Just finished reading The Stranger House by Reginald Hill and I was very impressed. Hill is the creator of Dalziel and Pascoe, but this isn’t one of their books, focusing instead on the intertwined lives of a young australian woman trying to trace her family roots and a Spanish history student, who recently quit the seminary, researching old catholic families in England.

The book is full of surprises and is, in places, very tense. It’s not your typical murder-mystery novel, but given the events span 400 years, and jump regularly between the present, the 1960s and the 16th Century, the author does a good job of keeping things moving.

This is the first entry in my new ‘Books’ section, which I intend to use as a record for myself of what I’ve read.