Just starting on Angel of Darkness - Caleb Carr, sequel to Alienist. Appreciate the meticulous recreation of laste 19th/early 20th century realia of New York. A refreshing change of narrator shows a nice new perspective on events and sets out some traits in the characters previously not seen. Ought to be good.
Scourge the Heretic - Sandy Mitchel, a WH40k Dark Heresy PnP RPG tie-in novel, first of a two-part series and half-way through it. While the story is fairly interesting and competently told, with decent characters, it somehow feels too generic and doesn't ring true with my idea of WH40k. I guess that's what you got for not going after Dan Abnett (still got Eisnehorn and Ravenor to read, gah) - although I'm told Aaron Dembski-Bowden is the rising new star of Black Library fiction.
In connection with this, I've also just finished Blood of Martyrs, a Dark Heresy supplement and am half-way through Rogue Trader Core Rulebook, the RPG I think I'll be enjoying the most of the WH40k RPGs.
Finally, once I'm done with the DH tie-ins, I feel like going either for some David Lodge (finally, my wife's been nagging me about it for forever) or Thomas Pynchon. Think I'll go with Pynchon, as I've been putting off Mason & Dixon for far too long.
Yeah.