I seem to be on a detective story kick this week. I’m reading Murder on the Yellow Brick Road, by Stuart Kaminsky, and next on the book pile is Walter Mosley’s Devil in a Blue Dress. I don’t know exactly where the gumshoe thing came from, although I was watching part of The Wizard of Oz the other evening and that probably put the Kaminsky book in my head. I’ve read some of his other stuff and enjoyed it so I decided to give this a try; it’s set in LA in 1940 and the plot centers around the murder of a little person who had played a Munchkin in the movie. Devil in a Blue Dress is set in 1948 in LA, so maybe I’m on more of a period/atmosphere kick than I am a detective story kick.
I’m not sure what’ll be next on the agenda. I have Dewey waiting on the shelf, along with a biography of Abigail Adams, a Margaret Frazer mystery set in medieval Europe and half a dozen others of various genres, so who knows? Or maybe I’ll go to the library and see what I can find, or go downstairs to my own little library and root around for something. Whatever I decide on, I’m sure it’ll be a good companion for a winter afternoon, cat on lap and warm beverage within reach.
How about you? Are you reading anything interesting during these cold days?
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I also like to read so I listen to audiobooks while I am stitching. Getting ready to start Finger Licking Fifteen by Janet Evanovich.
Thanks for the book tips--all of them authors that I normally don't read. You should join Good Reads--it's a lot of fun! Right now I'm listening to Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen (or Allen Addison...) while waiting in fevered anticipation for Elizabeth Kostova's second book, after her incredible "The Historian", to be released on the 12th. I am getting the audio version to listen to but have the hardback ordered for my daughter to read. It doesn't come out till the 28th here, so it's on order from Amazon in the US. I finished Sue Grafton's latest book, U is for Undertow, and enjoyed it but didn't like it as much as T is for Trespass.
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