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Next book can we try something a bit more into bondage and bit less of a mystery?? The playing was ok for me but what kept me reading is to find more information about Carly.
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Small Town by Lawrence Block is a book I think would be good. Y'all let me know what you think. Here are some reviews of it;
Amazon.com
A solid craftsman with five bestselling series under his belt as well as numerous standalone mysteries and short-story collections to his credit, Lawrence Block breaks new ground with a resonant, compelling thriller about one man's response to the Twin Towers tragedy--an insane yet totally comprehensible, seemingly unconnected string of serial murders, or, as the killer calls them, "sacrifices" to the city he believes will be reborn out of the ashes of destruction. Block, a New Yorker born and bred, has penned a paean to the Manhattan he knows and loves, and created a cast of fascinating characters whose lives are touched by the killings. Among the most interesting are a woman whose sexual obsessions ensnare a former police commissioner who's being groomed for higher political office, a crime novelist uncertain about his own culpability in the so-called Carpenter Killings, and a gay housecleaner whose clients keep ending up dead. This may be Block's best novel to date--it's certainly his most erotic and astonishing one, and it will keep you going until the last extraordinary page. A mesmerizing take on New York after 9/11, this solidly paced, brilliantly executed thriller deserves all the attention it will surely receive. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
This is a rare standalone from the Edgar Award-winning creator of Matt Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, hit man Keller and others, and takes a number of risks unusual for its author. For a start, it is very deliberately a post-9/11 thriller, in which a man bereaved by the loss of his wife and children in the Twin Towers sets out to wreak what he thinks of as a sacrificial vengeance on the city by becoming a serial terrorist himself. For another, Block, who wrote some pornography early in his career, has created a female character whose kinky sex antics will definitely ruffle some of his mainstream readers. And while an intimate knowledge of New York and its folkways, and of urban character and conversation, has always been one of Block's great strengths, and is on plentiful show again here, his rather improbable action climax seems carelessly tacked on to the meticulous rest of the book. The novel offers a very crowded canvas whose central characters are the sad figure of the terrorist himself; a former police commissioner who eventually sets out to bring him down; a midlist writer who suddenly gets to be a hot property when he's accused of a murder (the publishing scenes will be delightful for insiders); the aforementioned kinky lady, an art dealer when not playing pierced dominatrix; a gay recovering alcoholic who unwittingly leads the villain to the scenes of his crimes; and, of course, the city itself, which, as the title suggests, is a place where everyone is somehow connected to everyone else's business. It's a bold and flashy effort, but its deliberately disturbing elements may somewhat limit its appeal.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Block temporarily abandons Matthew Scudder for a standalone thriller set in New York City after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Central to the tale is a mass murderer with an agenda.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
Here is one of those fairly rare cases in which an author'svoice marvelously fits the story and characters of his own book. Notall authors can read well--slowly and lucidly--but Block does. He hasa flat middle-American voice even though virtually everything hewrites is set in New York City. He slightly alters his tone, and thecharacters stand out as individuals, instantly recognizable onceintroduced. The story here is a simple framework of a man driven madby the events of 9/11 who becomes a clever serial killer and massmurderer. On this framework Block hangs a myriad of sex scenes,spending more time on those than on the plot. Typically Block.D.R.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
From Booklist
Marilyn Fairchild, a Manhattan real-estate agent, is murdered. John Creighton, a writer with declining sales, is the last person she was seen with. Susan Pomerance is a successful art dealer who purchased her apartment through Fairchild. A murder of someone within her personal circle triggers Susan's sense of mortality, and she responds with a series of life-affirming sexual adventures. Creighton soon becomes the suspect in this high-profile murder as well as a very hot literary property: his proposed first-person account of his ordeal is on the publisher's auction block for millions. Block, the best-selling author of the Matthew Scudder detective series, carefully weaves these key characters--and others--into a rich tapestry of modern life set against the backdrop of beloved New York City. Though murder is the catalyst, the focus is not on the solution of the crime but on how it alters the course of so many lives. Block's shifting third-person narrative draws us into each life, including that of the unnamed killer. This is a novel at once profoundly disturbing, graphically erotic, satiric, and above all, entertaining. A fascinating effort by a writer who never fails to exceed expectations. Expect intense demand. Wes Lukowsky
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well.
That was the thing about New York -- if you loved it, if it worked for you, it ruined you for anyplace else in the world.
In this dazzlingly constructed novel, Lawrence Block reveals the secret at the heart of the Big Apple. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. Pulsating with the lives of its denizens -- bartenders and hookers, power brokers and politicos, cops and secretaries, editors and dreamers -- the city inspires a passion that is universal yet unique in each of its eight million inhabitants, including:
John Blair Creighton, a writer on the verge of a breakthrough;
Francis Buckram, a charismatic ex–police commissioner -- and the inside choice for the next mayor -- on the verge of a breakdown;
Susan Pomerance, a beautiful, sophisticated folk-art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality;
Maury Winters, a defense attorney who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness;
Jerry Pankow, an ex-addict who has turned being clean into a living, mopping up after New York's nightlife;
And, in the shadows of a city reeling from tragedy, an unlikely killing machine who wages a one-man war against them all.
Infused with the raw cadence, stark beauty, and relentless pace of New York City, Small Town is a tour de force Block fans old and new will celebrate.
Fury
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A solid craftsman with five bestselling series under his belt as well as numerous standalone mysteries and short-story collections to his credit, Lawrence Block breaks new ground with a resonant, compelling thriller about one man's response to the Twin Towers tragedy--an insane yet totally comprehensible, seemingly unconnected string of serial murders, or, as the killer calls them, "sacrifices" to the city he believes will be reborn out of the ashes of destruction. Block, a New Yorker born and bred, has penned a paean to the Manhattan he knows and loves, and created a cast of fascinating characters whose lives are touched by the killings. Among the most interesting are a woman whose sexual obsessions ensnare a former police commissioner who's being groomed for higher political office, a crime novelist uncertain about his own culpability in the so-called Carpenter Killings, and a gay housecleaner whose clients keep ending up dead. This may be Block's best novel to date--it's certainly his most erotic and astonishing one, and it will keep you going until the last extraordinary page. A mesmerizing take on New York after 9/11, this solidly paced, brilliantly executed thriller deserves all the attention it will surely receive. --Jane Adams
From Publishers Weekly
This is a rare standalone from the Edgar Award-winning creator of Matt Scudder, Bernie Rhodenbarr, hit man Keller and others, and takes a number of risks unusual for its author. For a start, it is very deliberately a post-9/11 thriller, in which a man bereaved by the loss of his wife and children in the Twin Towers sets out to wreak what he thinks of as a sacrificial vengeance on the city by becoming a serial terrorist himself. For another, Block, who wrote some pornography early in his career, has created a female character whose kinky sex antics will definitely ruffle some of his mainstream readers. And while an intimate knowledge of New York and its folkways, and of urban character and conversation, has always been one of Block's great strengths, and is on plentiful show again here, his rather improbable action climax seems carelessly tacked on to the meticulous rest of the book. The novel offers a very crowded canvas whose central characters are the sad figure of the terrorist himself; a former police commissioner who eventually sets out to bring him down; a midlist writer who suddenly gets to be a hot property when he's accused of a murder (the publishing scenes will be delightful for insiders); the aforementioned kinky lady, an art dealer when not playing pierced dominatrix; a gay recovering alcoholic who unwittingly leads the villain to the scenes of his crimes; and, of course, the city itself, which, as the title suggests, is a place where everyone is somehow connected to everyone else's business. It's a bold and flashy effort, but its deliberately disturbing elements may somewhat limit its appeal.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Block temporarily abandons Matthew Scudder for a standalone thriller set in New York City after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. Central to the tale is a mass murderer with an agenda.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From AudioFile
Here is one of those fairly rare cases in which an author'svoice marvelously fits the story and characters of his own book. Notall authors can read well--slowly and lucidly--but Block does. He hasa flat middle-American voice even though virtually everything hewrites is set in New York City. He slightly alters his tone, and thecharacters stand out as individuals, instantly recognizable onceintroduced. The story here is a simple framework of a man driven madby the events of 9/11 who becomes a clever serial killer and massmurderer. On this framework Block hangs a myriad of sex scenes,spending more time on those than on the plot. Typically Block.D.R.W. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.
From Booklist
Marilyn Fairchild, a Manhattan real-estate agent, is murdered. John Creighton, a writer with declining sales, is the last person she was seen with. Susan Pomerance is a successful art dealer who purchased her apartment through Fairchild. A murder of someone within her personal circle triggers Susan's sense of mortality, and she responds with a series of life-affirming sexual adventures. Creighton soon becomes the suspect in this high-profile murder as well as a very hot literary property: his proposed first-person account of his ordeal is on the publisher's auction block for millions. Block, the best-selling author of the Matthew Scudder detective series, carefully weaves these key characters--and others--into a rich tapestry of modern life set against the backdrop of beloved New York City. Though murder is the catalyst, the focus is not on the solution of the crime but on how it alters the course of so many lives. Block's shifting third-person narrative draws us into each life, including that of the unnamed killer. This is a novel at once profoundly disturbing, graphically erotic, satiric, and above all, entertaining. A fascinating effort by a writer who never fails to exceed expectations. Expect intense demand. Wes Lukowsky
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
Book Description
The author of dozens of acclaimed novels including those in the Scudder and Keller series, Lawrence Block has long been recognized as one of the premier crime writers of our time. Now, the breathtaking skill, power, and versatility of this Grand Master are brilliantly displayed once again in a mesmerizing new thriller set on the streets of the city he knows and loves so well.
That was the thing about New York -- if you loved it, if it worked for you, it ruined you for anyplace else in the world.
In this dazzlingly constructed novel, Lawrence Block reveals the secret at the heart of the Big Apple. His glorious metropolis is really a small town, filled with men and women from all walks of life whose aspirations, fears, disappointments, and triumphs are interconnected by bonds as unbreakable as they are unseen. Pulsating with the lives of its denizens -- bartenders and hookers, power brokers and politicos, cops and secretaries, editors and dreamers -- the city inspires a passion that is universal yet unique in each of its eight million inhabitants, including:
John Blair Creighton, a writer on the verge of a breakthrough;
Francis Buckram, a charismatic ex–police commissioner -- and the inside choice for the next mayor -- on the verge of a breakdown;
Susan Pomerance, a beautiful, sophisticated folk-art dealer plumbing the depths of her own fierce sexuality;
Maury Winters, a defense attorney who prefers murder trials because there's one less witness;
Jerry Pankow, an ex-addict who has turned being clean into a living, mopping up after New York's nightlife;
And, in the shadows of a city reeling from tragedy, an unlikely killing machine who wages a one-man war against them all.
Infused with the raw cadence, stark beauty, and relentless pace of New York City, Small Town is a tour de force Block fans old and new will celebrate.
Fury
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I assume the past the Amazon part the rest of the post is singing their praises for this book right?? Personally I like mysteries, but I want bdsm and more of it, but will you find any good fiction books where this plays a bigger role in your public library, I think not. So it you can get a good who done it mystery I am for it.
Have you thought about starting a book series, its abit out there but the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books by Laurrel Hamilton I think are good and I know they are at the library too.
Have you thought about starting a book series, its abit out there but the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books by Laurrel Hamilton I think are good and I know they are at the library too.
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leeroy jenkins said:
They are reviews which may or may not sing praises. I happen to have enjoyed this author before. We could do that book or any book on the list I've already posted that the most people wanted to do. Also people could nominate books and we could pick from there.
I've read ALL of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books. In fact, the first one, Guilty Pleasures is on my ALL time short list of fav books ever!
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I am happy to read just about anything.....
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FurryFury said:They are reviews which may or may not sing praises. I happen to have enjoyed this author before. We could do that book or any book on the list I've already posted that the most people wanted to do. Also people could nominate books and we could pick from there.
I've read ALL of the Anita Blake Vampire Hunter books. In fact, the first one, Guilty Pleasures is on my ALL time short list of fav books ever!
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Boo, I have read on of the Blake book not sure which one now. The reason I suggested those books were there was some scifi and definate sexual overtones if not some out right sex in the books. But how about the Honor Harrington books by David Webar or Weber not sure which. Think Star Trek with a very strong female lead character.
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FurryFury said:*HUGS*
I love to read as well, though lately I am finding less time for reading and everything else.
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I hear that....my Spring Break.....is wayyyyyy over this week. The shock of having to get out of my pj's, put on real clothes, get back to a school schedule is killing me this week. *points to papers that need to be graded*
Oh well....I will have time this weekend *crosses fingers* to read.
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There was no sex in the first book but a lot of action. I found it great and frustrating. Now she writes a lot of sex and no action. I find it frustrating.
I'm not sure I want to read Star Trek novels at all, sorry.
I'd really like there to be at least some bit of BDSM tones in the books we read. Then if they do that part of the book "wrong" we can say so. Hopefully the books will be well written and enjoyable on some level, regardless.
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Hisbabydoll26 said:I hear that....my Spring Break.....is wayyyyyy over this week. The shock of having to get out of my pj's, put on real clothes, get back to a school schedule is killing me this week. *points to papers that need to be graded*
*HUGS*
I thought I would have more time and less stress on Spring Break than it's turned out to be but such is life. I do NOT look forward to getting back into "the swing" of things next week.
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EditedFurryFury said:
Ok well the book I read of hers there was a setting in a hospital that had a werewolf hurt and Anita through some connection called up this no dead she wolf and that helped to heal the injured wolf. As for Weber books no bdsm but they are about 2 factions of worlds fighting in space. What I like about the books I did read and looking at some of the others is that Honor, main characters name, has her life sorta told from when she was a lowly captain I think uptil when she is like a Commador in the last books. So her story is set on a backdrop of this galatic war and you see how she handles the obsticals that her own side gives her and prevails.
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bookmarking thread while I go back to read from beginning.
Book junkie here. yup! yup!
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Book junkie here. yup! yup!
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I do not even know what book that came from, but lets turn our hearts and minds to the task of talking about Panic Snap. When are we going to start Fury, I am chomping at the bit here.
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fieryjen said:Okay, how did I completely miss this thread until now?
I love books. And reading (duh).
This sounds lovely.
Not sure but as we still have not yet started the discussion and even if we did you could catch up. The book we will be discussing is Panic Snap by Laura Reese and if your like at least me and Fury you could try the local library for it first.
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fieryjen said:Thanks
*Peers around to make sure its safe* No body move and you will make it out of this Hijacking safely.
Just read your Swordplay story nice, it resonates with me becuase I love bladed combat. If you saw Kill Bill or similar films you know what I am talking about. You had a nice mixture of dominance and surrender by the slave. I am like another of your posters, wanting more to the story. What happens after she is carried out to her sleeping area, assuming that is where the master is headed. How will she rededicate herself to her training with the sword??
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leeroy jenkins said:
Thank you so very much. I am flattered by the positive feedback I've received for the story so far. I have seen Kill Bill (loved it too), and I was inspired quite a bit by R. A. Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy.
I'm considering a sequel, but I'm nervous I won't manage to make it as good as this first story. If a fitting scenario comes to my mind, I'll definitely write it though
*whistles innocently* What were we talking about? Oh yes, books. Always books.
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fieryjen said:Thank you so very much. I am flattered by the positive feedback I've received for the story so far. I have seen Kill Bill (loved it too), and I was inspired quite a bit by R. A. Salvatore's Dark Elf Trilogy.
I'm considering a sequel, but I'm nervous I won't manage to make it as good as this first story. If a fitting scenario comes to my mind, I'll definitely write it though
*whistles innocently* What were we talking about? Oh yes, books. Always books.
Again with the Salvatore, I did read one of his Star Wars book and I hated it or at least I would not rank it as one of my favs. Maybe I need to wonder over to Dragonlance or Forgotten Realms and read what he has there and hope I like it better.
Fury is very nice to me and does not mine a jack or two, besides with this much exposure then you might get more people to read you stuff and that is a good thing.
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Okay, I promise to go back and read the whole thread but I haven't done it yet.
YES I am saddened when I realize I'm coming to the end of a good book.
I get physically distressed if I'm coming to the end of a book and I don't have something else to read immediately afterward even if I choose not to do so. I'm truly uneasy if I know that there isn't a book around for me to read.
I'm almost exclusively a low-brow, pulp lover. I can and have and even occasionally will read high-brow stuff, but mostly I read for escape and high-brow doesn't do that for me.
Books are my drug of choice and it's a damn good thing they're legal because I'd be knocking over liquor stores in a skinny minute and pushing your granny out of the way to do it if she tried to come between me and my fix.
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YES I am saddened when I realize I'm coming to the end of a good book.
I get physically distressed if I'm coming to the end of a book and I don't have something else to read immediately afterward even if I choose not to do so. I'm truly uneasy if I know that there isn't a book around for me to read.
I'm almost exclusively a low-brow, pulp lover. I can and have and even occasionally will read high-brow stuff, but mostly I read for escape and high-brow doesn't do that for me.
Books are my drug of choice and it's a damn good thing they're legal because I'd be knocking over liquor stores in a skinny minute and pushing your granny out of the way to do it if she tried to come between me and my fix.
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If you're looking for BDSM-flavored books then I could suggest some Emma Holly titles:
Menage
Cooking up a Storm
Velvet Glove
Top of Her Game
In the Flesh
THEY ARE NOT for hardcore BDSM practitioners. There's plenty of explicit sex but it's fairly tame compared to much of what gets discussed here at Lit. There's no blood, there's no marking that lasts for days. It's a lot more about D/s than B&D or S&M. They are also romantic stories and it's not all strictly Alpha males nor even all straight males and all of the books have some instances of female topping. Holly's sexual world is very fluid which is one of the things I like about her because it jives with my own, but I know that a lot of people are more interested in more clearly drawn lines so if stricter adherence to roles is your thing then Holly is probably not for you.
Holly's got good characters, though, and the plots move because the characters are real, not because the plots push the people around ---- at least until you get to later books like Personal Assets where she starts to decline a bit. I didn't include those on the list for that very reason. I'm hoping she'll return to her previous skill.
Anyway, Holly was the first author that made me consider the idea that Beta men could be every bit as sexy and compelling as Alphas.
Now I'm off to read more of this thread and hope I haven't brought up something somebody already did.
BTW --- Electronic Books, anyone??
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Menage
Cooking up a Storm
Velvet Glove
Top of Her Game
In the Flesh
THEY ARE NOT for hardcore BDSM practitioners. There's plenty of explicit sex but it's fairly tame compared to much of what gets discussed here at Lit. There's no blood, there's no marking that lasts for days. It's a lot more about D/s than B&D or S&M. They are also romantic stories and it's not all strictly Alpha males nor even all straight males and all of the books have some instances of female topping. Holly's sexual world is very fluid which is one of the things I like about her because it jives with my own, but I know that a lot of people are more interested in more clearly drawn lines so if stricter adherence to roles is your thing then Holly is probably not for you.
Holly's got good characters, though, and the plots move because the characters are real, not because the plots push the people around ---- at least until you get to later books like Personal Assets where she starts to decline a bit. I didn't include those on the list for that very reason. I'm hoping she'll return to her previous skill.
Anyway, Holly was the first author that made me consider the idea that Beta men could be every bit as sexy and compelling as Alphas.
Now I'm off to read more of this thread and hope I haven't brought up something somebody already did.
BTW --- Electronic Books, anyone??
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leeroy jenkins said:
That's a very good thing
"Swordplay" did get off to a slow start (I'm assuming the category was part of it), but I'm excited I finally gathered the ten votes necessary for a little H. Yay! It has only received postive comments from people, which is exciting. I'm convinced it's my best story to date, by about a mile.I've only read Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books, and I loved those. I'm not as much into the Star Wars stuff to be honest.
Thanks for allowing the threadjack, Fury!
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Ok Burner I assume you did read Panic Snap for this months book as well right?? My question/statement is Panic Snap was more of a mystery in my mind with some bdsm mixed in, so Burner now the question how would you describe Holly's books mostly an genre with bdsm or what??
Alpha is the head of the pack dominancewise so is beta his right hand man??
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fieryjen said:That's a very good thing
I've only read Salvatore's Forgotten Realms books, and I loved those. I'm not as much into the Star Wars stuff to be honest.
Thanks for allowing the threadjack, Fury!
Ok I am ashamed to say but of all the stuff I have read on lit yours is the only one I have voted for. Well the Star Wars thing was a total accident, I saw The Courtship of Princess Leia in the Krogers and I thought to myself ok I will pick this up and read it and then give it to my new friend and 12 years later adopted brother Tim. How foolish was I this one book started me on collected over 70 Star Wars novels, none of which I own now, gave them to Tim and my other friend to share. Durning this time I amassed over 300 christian romance and other christian genre books too, again none that I own now too expensive to ship from Oh to Az.
I have never read the forgotten realms but if you like swords, I assume you do with your story, you should check out the Kingsmaker series by Ann Marston. Think Irish or is it Scotish meets a bit of magic and so forth. Excellant books and the cover art rocks too. If you like these 3 books then there is a second series that follows it set like 20 years after the last book.
