Madeleine

The Man - The Killers

Black Velvet - Alannah Myles

Visions in Blue - Ultravox

Dorian Gray is pretty short, so maybe you could read both versions!

Same here, it's unseasonably warm though there is a bit of a chill, the trees haven't started to turn yet, probably because of the late warm weather,but I walked into a wall of Halloween stuff in the supermarket yesterday.

Blue Savannah - Erasure

A Taste for Vengeance by Martin Walker - this is the 11th book in the series but my first read of this series of crime novels set in France's Perigord region, and featuring Bruno, who is the Chief of Police. When a woman fails to turn up for a cookery course, run by Bruno's ex-girlfriend (one of them anyway), and is later found murdered in the home of a local man, who is found hanged in the woods, it looks like a murder/suicide case, but then the police discover that the man wasn't who he'd been claiming to be. Their investigations go back to the dark days of the IRA, and it looks like someone from that organisation is out for vengeance. In amongst all this, Bruno coaches the local women's rugby team, helps with cookery classes and vineyard tours, and has also been promoted to chief of the overall region, so it's hard to see how he manages to find the time to do just one thing! There's an interesting cast of characters, and although I enjoyed the book overall, there was a bit too much detail in some instances, plus what I thought was an unnecessary extra plotline involving his star rugby player. But it's a popular series, and I have several others to read, and he has an adorable basset hound called Balzac, so bring on the others in the series! 7/10

Ooer, I thought the last one was tense enough!

That's a gorgeous colour.

The next in the Frey and McGray series, "The Darker Arts", after last year's disappointment with Shadowplay I think I'm on safer ground with this one, plus it ticks all the boxes,maybe even Science Fiction/Fantasy too? But definitely Victorian!

I remember this one too, a bit of an oddity especially for The Carpenters.

I'd love to go for the Victober/Halloween theme, and for once I know exactly what I want to read!

Calling all the Heroes - It Bites

Streets of London - Ralph McTell

Where the streets have no name - U2

Very wet and windy last night but nice today, still windy but sunny, so like Brian I've been getting as much sun as possible, even managed an ice cream as well! Currently on hols in Dorset so have managed some beach walks, but think it will change after today.

Into the Groove - Madonna

Nice yesterday and not bad today, tomorrow looks ok but more wind and heavy rain and storms too come!

Send in the Clowns - various

I think it stayed fairly close up to series 5, which lost it completely, though they did mix up storylines a bit, a the books don't follow on chronologically but you catch up with some characters in a following book.

having a very close-up view of a cormorant, apart from when it lifted it's tail and did a big pooh, nice!

With or without you - U2

One more night - Phil Collins

Absolutely torrential rain last night, for the best part of an hour, I wonder how much fell, must have been several cm/inches.

The Only One I know - The Charlatans