All 3 you mention are good. also I promise you, if you do start the Quincunx you will race through it and wish it were longer - it's really page-turningly addictive.
For historical mysteries, Lindsey Davies' Falco series is great.
Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series is sort of urban fantasy crossed with police…

When I was a child I read an article in the Readers' Digest about the murder of Sue Snow which happened because a woman wanted to kill her husband and copied that method. Ms Snow was just massively unlucky as she ended up with one of the bottles of pills that the murderer had planted in shops to try to cover her…

Joke answer is The Cook, the Thief, like someone said below.
Otherwise maybe Eat Drink Man Woman. Or anything with beautiful cakes - Marie Antoinette, Grand Budapest Hotel.

Dead Man for me.

Also St Trinians, which my school had a connection to…

twitter tells me 35% of thanksgiving turkey meat gets wasted :( :( :(

nonononono we don't want Trump knowing we're still here. he will try to build something on us.

I seem to only drink about once a fortnight or less these days. (I just got back from a bar though. someone's birthday! there was bad wine. I only got there at 11 when everyone else was already pissed so had to play catchup. eek. I think the headache is starting now.)

Thank you :) They said January so fingers crossed for that. I need to get back into yoga, too.
There is always the sea - I live on a peninsula so I could just go to the beach, but I don't own a wetsuit and it's not the same as doing a proper hour to 90 mins in the pool :) I need to get my act together and just walk to…

That was by far the stupidest thing they did, agreed. Even more of a shame given the whole thing about how it would be nice to see more of the characters' relationships develop, and how Whedon's usually so good at that. It has to happen realistically and organically rather than in this ludicrously forced way.

than you, that's good to know- I clearly don't know enough/ have read misleading things in the past.

Exactly, why the hell not! I would much rather be the art director or the DOP. And I fail to understand why Jennifer Lawrence is not exactly like me in her thinking.

I like loads of Jicks songs, but never an entire album. They're great fun live though, I will say that. I still think hes the sexiest man in pop.

one day I want an actor to decide to be a DOP or an editor or a sound designer or an art director or something.

I love Le Fanu, so I definitely second that recommendation.

I'm like that! I want to move as far north as possible as soon as I can. I love the variation between long days and long nights we have here, but I want even more of it.

I know what you mean.I try not to talk about it because I've just spent too much time trying to justify my own mental illness to other people and it's hard enough justifying it to myself. But you're not alone, and I think people do care. I hope you can find somewhere to talk about it that helps.

It's not going that great here - failing to write, being overwhelmed by time consuming, awful freelance work. spending a reasonable amount of time in the print room, but never happy with the stuff I'm making. hope everyone is doing better than me.

Feeling really bad as the swimming pool I usually go to is closed for renovation and I haven't managed to do something else instead. I always rely on swimming because I don't actively hate it, but I know it;s not enough even when I am doing it regularly. (There is another pool but it's further away and work has been a…

Absolutely, the more women the better, esp as we have to lose the terrible Jane.