No.1 Ladies Detective Agency Omnibus Edition: No.1 Ladies Detective Agency; Tears of the Giraffe; Morality for Beautiful Girls by Alexander McCall Smith

Read and reviewed in October, 2014, released later

A trilogy of books about the delightful and intriguing Number One lady detective of Botswana, Precious Ramotswe, and her friends and associates, her clients, and the cases she and her able assistant so cleverly and thoughtfully solve. I had already read the first one in the series, but gladly read it again, as well as the others. I really enjoy the Precious Ramotswe books, and hope to find more of them.

The William Monk Mysteries: The First Three Novels, by Anne Perry

Read, reviewed, and given away in January, 2015

I thoroughly enjoyed this trilogy of the first three William Monk mysteries by Anne Perry. Each of the three actually was two mysteries:The whodunnit in each case and also the developing revelations of William Monk"s identity and background following an accident in which he sustained a head injury and subsequent amnesia.

Mr. Monk is a police detective in 1850s London. Ms. Perry describes the Dickensian scenes very well, and the reader is drawn into the scenes: the busy street life, the pubs, the overwhelming and frightening ghettos, as well as the luxuries of the upper classes. The endings were completely surprising, uncomfortably so.
I will look for more William Monk mysteries by Anne Perry.