The
Robinson novel that I missed at Butterfly Books was nagging me now. Then, there is this other Robinson novel that
was available with another used books seller on Amazon. With these in my bag, my ‘DCI Banks’ set
would be complete. I was waiting for
both novels to appear with one seller. I
kept trawling all used books sellers on Amazon and sometime around the middle
of this month, I saw that these two ‘DCI Banks’ were available with J D
Books. The prices were more than I
expected, but less than what I had seen earlier with the other bookseller. And moreover, I was desperate you see. I had binge read the last four ‘DCI Banks’
novel and the next one in the series was this.
I couldn’t wait. The other novel
appears somewhere in the middle of the series and I could catch up with it
later. I put these two in the basket and
saw that the total was short of the shipping waiver limit. I would have to look for another book to reach
the limit or I have to pay shipping charges.
After much hair-pulling, I found a novel by Matthew Pearl, The
Last Dickens, which I had mentioned in my bibliothrillers series
earlier, but one which I hadn’t read. It
was an unintentional ‘limit-reaching’ purchase, but what the heck.
The package
arrived 5 days later. My ‘DCI Banks’
collection was complete, except for the most recent one. What I was most pleased
about was that all were ‘used books’ purchases.
I got some at Abids, some from Best Books, and the most recent were
these three heavy purchases from Amazon.
I finished Abattoir Blues and now reading Innocent Graves.
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