Started with Fever Dream by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. Not awesome, but so, SO much better than the last couple of books in the series. I suspect because the super stupid brother character is gone. Thank God. Second-most annoying character appears infrequently, although I suspect she will be more, if not entirely, front and center in the next book (which, as usual, Misters Preston and Child not only hint at constantly throughout the story proper, but plug shamelessly, if ever there was a shameless plugging, in the end papers of the book).
Next came Sovereign by C. J. Sansom. I liked this one even better than the last Matthew Shardlake mystery I read - huzzah for authors who get better. The kinks are clearly being worked out, and I really appreciated that while the author refers to events in past books, he does not ram ads for the previous installments, in the guise of plot, down the reader's throat.
After that (Monday-Tuesday, hooray long weekend!) was "An Abigail Adams Mystery" by Barbara Hamilton called The Ninth Daughter. I was hoping it'd be good, given the character/setting, but it was...meh. Not bad, not good. This may be the "first in a new series!" but I'm not going to be searching out the next one.
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