I've just finished reading "Started Early, Took My Dog" by Kate Atkinson.
"This is the fourth book to feature "semi-retired" private investigator Jackson Brodie, a tender curmudgeon and solver of mysteries whose appeal lies in the fact that he remains a mystery to himself. Over the four novels Atkinson has painted Jackson into a fractured universe of missing wives, near-death experiences, exploded housesand estranged lovers, but the absence nearest to his heart – his "own dear grail" – remains his sister Niamh, murdered as a teenager in a brutal crime that was never solved."
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/14/started-early-took-my-dog-kate-atkinson
So far I've read "One Good Turn", "When Will There Be Good News" and now Started Early, Took My Dog". Now I'm on the lookout for "Case Histories".
Meantime I have the newest Jack Reacher thriller "Never Go Back".
Now I have to go clean the bathroom lol.
