Alex Stewart (5) (1958–)

The Commissar Cain omnibuses have ending up becoming a kind of comfort read for me. Fun, light, fast reads that despite knowing the story because I've read it before, have not yet ceased to entertain me. They're like a TV show that each time you come across an episode of it you stop channel surfing and watch it. At least once a year it seems, I'll pick up one of these books no matter how enticing the rest of the books on my to read stack may be.

I'm rounding up to 5 stars, but the last super-short stories at the end of the book make me wish there was a quarter start option. I understand the three novels in this omnibus are linked, but after those three novels and two interesting shorter stories, these last two entries are only a couple pages each and feel tacked on and hurried.… (mais)