Speaking of book blogging, Jay Fitzgerald has compiled (as a work in progress) a Boston reading list. There's some good stuff, fiction and non, The Last Hurrah, Common Ground and The Friends of Eddie Coyle among others. It's too bad that space, presumably, limits George Higgins to only one book. I've been thinking, just about everything he wrote has a Boston nexus and it's all great, especially the books from the eighties and early nineties and especially the Jerry Kennedy series.

I'd also recommend The Strangler by William Landay and not because of the character's name. It's a great crime novel centered as much around the building of The New Boston as on the Boston Strangler.