Lacking Natural Simplicity

Master of Rain, by Tom Bradby. This is an interesting murder mystery set in the late 1920s in Shanghai.

Sign of the Unicorn, by Roger Zelazny. This is the the third novel in the first Amber series. I listened to the unabridged audio version from Sunset Productions over the course of a week or so in my car going back and forth to work, and enjoyed it immensely.