Finished off

the last two of these Steve Hamilton novels, North of Nowhere and Ice Run (the second was particularly good, very dark and Alex gets beaten up even more than usual). It makes me sad that I've read them all now, I guess I'll have to wait a while for the new one to come out.

Also read an advance copy of John Harvey's Ash and Bone, the second in his new series featuring Detective Frank Elder. Very good, really, only not so much my kind of book as the Hamilton ones, which are written in a really excellent first-person voice.