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2019 Norwegian disaster film, dir. Andreas Andersen, Kristoffer Joner, Ane Dahl Torp: IMDb / allmovie. Kristian Eikjord is a hero after the events of Bølgen, but his life has fallen apart. Now he's got another bee in his bonnet, about the geology underpinning Oslo…| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved character sieving and noughts and crosses. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I have contributed to an APA. Not a thing I expected to do at my time of life…| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
More gaming with nearby friends.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2019 historical mystery; seventh in Huber's Lady Darby series (post-Regency amateur detection). Gage and Lady Darby investigate the murder of a rake which was set up to look like an attempt by resurrection men to obtain a body for dissection—and with London already seething after the failure of the Reform Bill, Lady Darby's past is raked up again.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I went to Airecon Northwest again, in the convention centre in central Manchester. With images; cc-by-sa on everything.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
1959 police procedural, eighth in the 87th Precinct series. A woman comes into the squad room and holds the detectives hostage with a pistol and a bottle of nitroglycerine.| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
2025 Victorian romance. Euphemia Flite is an orphan brought up in a very special charity school, and forged as a weapon to take down a particular powerful man. But she will find more goals than that for her life…| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array slicing and point filtering. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog: Latest posts
1923 mystery. A young barrister catching the last train home shares his compartment with two strangers having an unusual conversation. THen one of them drops dead, and the other runs away…| RogerBW's Blog
High Wycombe's in-town shopping centre is called Eden. This offends me, but perhaps not in the obvious way.| RogerBW's Blog
Notes on Mongoose's Bayern 6: Derelict| blog.firedrake.org
1991 mystery. Sheila Malory has returned to Oxford to do some research at the Bodleian. Her godson, working there, found the victim of a shelf collapse, who turns out to have been a thoroughly bad thing and probably a blackmailer. But the police were quite happy to say it was an accident…| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved string manipulation. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
1994 mystery. Sheila Malory regularly visits some of the residents at the local nursing home, and one of them has a daughter who's rather too keen on getting a power of attorney. Then the mother disappears…| RogerBW's Blog
2011 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, seventh in the Logan McRae series. The most popular contestants on Britain's Next Big Star have been kidnapped – but is it all a hoax by the promoter? Meanwhile the target of a drugs bust seems to think he can get Logan to get him the drugs back…| RogerBW's Blog
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, eighth in the Logan McRae series. A man turns up burned to death, gangland style; someone's beating up Asian drug dealers; oh, and two teenage lovers haven't been seen for a few days. Logan McRae will, ultimately, solve all of these cases…| RogerBW's Blog
2000 military SF, first in the Valor/Confederation series. Staff Sergeant Torin Kerr's platoon of Marines is just back from a hard fight when their liberty is cancelled and they're sent off to escort a group of diplomats as they try to get a recently-discovered world to join the Confederation. Then things get worse.| RogerBW's Blog
2025 horror-romance-fantasy. The town of Lake Argen, deep in rural Ontario, seems quiet and boring. They work hard to keep it that way…| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sets and combinations. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
2024 short fantasy novel in the World of the Five Gods (formerly known as Chalion). A girl washes up in a fishing village, and promptly sets things on fire. Penric is sent to deal with it.| RogerBW's Blog
I have noticed the same thing happening twice in my interaction with software, and two data points makes a straight line.| RogerBW's Blog
2024 paranormal fantasy, fourth novel of its series. Bunny Barrington tries to track down whoever it is laying curses on the townsfolk, while coping with a visit from her domineering mother.| RogerBW's Blog
2025 paranormal fantasy, fifth novel of its series. Bunny Barrington, now a trained police officer in the supernatural town of Portlock, looks into a mysterious death at the town's mine…| RogerBW's Blog
1954 suspense, dir. Alfred Hitchcock, James Stewart, Grace Kelly: IMDb / allmovie. Laid up after an accident, photographer "Jeff" Jefferies becomes suspicious of the goings-on in the apartment opposite.| RogerBW's Blog
2022 short stand-alone modern fantasy novel. Gadriel, the Fallen Angel of Petty Temptations, has a debt to pay off, so ends up having to tempt Holly Harker. Just a little bit.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a date calculation and run-length encoding. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
The Grand Senate controls the Terran Federation, but is hopelessly corrupt. When one of the Federation's admirals leads an attack on Earth, he is just barely beaten back, and so his forces need to be suppressed…| RogerBW's Blog
2013 fantasy, third volume of its series. Cathy tries to kick off her project to reform society in the Nether; Max still works for the increasingly erratic sorcerer Ekstrand; Sam is dragged into the Elemental Court.| RogerBW's Blog
2024 non-fiction. Zinoviev introduces the core functions of seven programming languages that are now, for various reasons, little-known.| RogerBW's Blog
1978 comedy anthology, consisting of Mortimer's adaptations of his own scripts from the first season of the television series. Rumpole is an ageing barrister who somehow prevails over everything life can throw at him.| RogerBW's Blog
1945 Napoleonic naval fiction, fourth written but ninth by internal chronology. Hornblower is settling uncomfortably into rural life when he's given a squadron and sent on a diplomatic and military mission to the Baltic.| RogerBW's Blog
1946 Napoleonic naval fiction, fifth written but tenth by internal chronology. Hornblower is summoned to deal with a mutinous crew on the French blockade.| RogerBW's Blog
2024 romance/SF/mystery; 59th novel of Robb's In Death series (SF police procedurals). At a hen party, one of the prospective brides slips away… and is murdered.| RogerBW's Blog
2012 police procedural mystery, tartan noir, first in the Ash Henderson series. A serial killer takes girls just before their thirteenth birthdays, kills them, and sends a photograph of the process every subsequent year. DC Ash Henderson is really not the man to crack the case.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved sequence testing and splitting. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
2016 fantasy, fourth volume of its series. Cathy seeks allies in her reform of Neither society; Max finds himself showing disconcerting initiative given what's happened to his soul; Sam finds out what the Elemental Court is really up to.| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved counting digits and matching bit-counts. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved array analysis and string merging. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved a lot of counting. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved lots of combinatorial searches. (Note that this closes today.)| RogerBW's Blog
I’ve been doing the Weekly Challenges. The latest involved prime counting and list selections. (Note that this ends today.)| RogerBW's Blog