Finished HIDE YOURSELF AWAY

Still not certain what the title has to do with the story, but the reviews, most of which said that literally anyone could have been the murderer, is not entirely true, but close.  The conclusion was a definite surprise.  The writing style is eminently readable with short chapters, slowly unfolding the action from the characters' points of view.  Loved it.

I have now started People of the Longhouse (#1) by W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear.  This is another in the series of archeology based books, this one about the Iroquois of what is now the northeastern USA and Canada.  Eventually these nations would form a confederation which valued individual liberty and became the model for our own form of government.  This book is set in the time predating the confederation, a time of violence so horrible that it eventually spawned the great peace which came with confederation.

Finished MIDNIGHT CROSSROAD

All Right!  Thank you, Charlaine.  All is forgiven.  This new series with its wonderful quirky characters, strange commeraderie, and caring (though not non-violent) solution of problems has squirmed its way into my heart.  Can't wait to read the next one teasingly foreshadowed in this one.

I have now started Hide Yourself Away, a murder mystery/thriller by Mary Jane Clark.  This is her seventh book in the Key News series, but I am not trying to read them in order.  A group of summer interns are competing for one position with Key News and this mystery will entice these young people to get too close to the solution.  Have they forgotten there is a murderer at large???

Finished THE MINOR ADJUSTMENT BEAUTY SALON

Mma. Makutsi's newborn baby and the solving of two intriguing mysteries are at the heart of this story.  As usual, we are struck by the gentle and loving relationship between the two very different detectives and the manor in which they enjoy their world.

I have now started Midnight Crossroad by Charlaine Harris.  I was a bit miffed with her for ending the Sookie Stackhouse (True Blood) series, so I am hoping this new series will also be wonderfully quirky and exciting.  So far, I am enjoying the unusual mix of people who live in this tiny crossroad hamlet.

Finished A SHIVER OF LIGHT

Wonderful escape, but something has happened that I haven't forgiven Hamilton for as yet.  However, most of the ending was satisfying and new problems have cropped up to continue the story...

I have now started The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon, a #1 Ladies' Detective Agency book by Alexander McCall Smith.  These books are just relaxing and often quite funny in the delightful humor or Mme. Ramotswe and others.  She tends to get along with everyone and understands rudeness with a grain of salt and a lot of tolerance.  Two problems are introduced so far:  Mme Makutsi is pregnant, but because of her fear that speaking of it will jinx it, she will not so much as share with her employer when she is due or what her plans are for maternity leave.  A client who is a lawyer tasked with executing a will suspects that the man who has presented himself as the heir is actually lying.

Finished HORNET FLIGHT by Ken Follett

Understand that my books are piled by genre or author (Ken Follett's books are in my "epic" pile) and are stacked in chronological order from when I got them within the pile, the most recent book is on the bottom.  I try to get them in the order that the author wrote them, but Follett is a definite exception to this rule, since I read his huge epics--Pillars of the Earth and sequel, Fall of Giants trilogy--first.  I have three shelves of books and take the top one off each pile as I come to it--approximately 13 piles of books in all.  So how is it that I read In the Garden of Beasts only one book before I came to this book?  Do I really need to read two books about the Holocaust and Nazis while Trump is newly president?  The world and my books are disturbing!

That said, this is a very good book about a couple eighteen-year-old kids in Nazi occupied Denmark risking everything to help the British.  The ending was quite satisfying.  I especially liked the note at the beginning that said, "Some of what follows actually happened."

I have now started reading A Shiver of Light by Laurell K. Hamilton, a long-awaited Meredith Gentry novel.  Merry is fey, now queen of the Unseelie court, and is having triplets in an highly unsettled (though fantasy) world.  Hamilton's books are thrillers, fantasies, and erotic as well as exotic.  Wonderful escape, and I need an escape....