Deadfall; Feast for Crows

Linda Fairstein's latest Alex Cooper mystery picks up where the previous one, "Killer Look", left off. Alex's boss, DA Paul Battaglia, has been murdered, right in Alex's arms. Alex and Mike and Mercer start trying to untangle the twisted web around his death, which involved animal poaching and drug smuggling. It was really good, I enjoyed it.

I reread book four of the Ice and Fire series by George R. R. Martin, "A Feast for Crows". Not a big fan of this one, since he broke it up geographically because he had to (so he claims, I think he could have done it differently), so as a result there's no Daenerys, no Jon, no Tyrion. My response? ZZZZZ. Lots of Cersei (blarg), Jaime, Brienne, Arya (Arya's okay, I like her), and Sansa. Sansa is stuck in the Eyrie with Littlefinger, pretending to be his bastard daughter and an impostor posing as Arya Stark is married to Ramsay Bolton. Cersei had the brilliant idea of arming the Sparrows, which is going to come back to bite her in spectacular fashion (I love that part). Brienne meets Gendry and realizes right away he's a Baratheon. Instead of going to Dorne, like he did on the show, Jaime is at Riverrun, dealing with the siege there, and the Blackfish escapes.