#86: The Transcendental Murder by Jane Langton:She was a servant of the old school, eager to please. But she had one well-known flaw. Gwen beheld Mrs. Bewley sticking the sugar tongs coyly into her bosom, the dear old kleptomaniac. It was just a habit she had. She didn't mean anything by it. Mrs. Goss always frisked her sternly before she went home ( Read more... )

# 83: Toast Mortem by Claudia Bishop:Adela chaired the library board. Just as John Deere bulldozers were good at moving dirt, Adela was good at fund-raising. So the library was a pleasant, well-ordered place with good lighting, lots of books, and up to date computer equipment.
Synopsis: Simply the best culinary mystery I've ever read.

( Snark! Mayhem! Cats! And a computer-savvy kickass librarian! )

#68: Hurricane Punch by Tim Dorsey:

A few miles above Venice, the Tamiami Trail takes a pair of jogs as it swings past Marina Jack's and the bridge to Bird Key, home of lifestyle pace-car and AC/DC front man Brian Johnson.

Synopsis: Serial killer/Florida historian Serge A. Storms and his stoner buddy Coleman take up hurricane-chasing, while ( Read more... )

Day 03 - The best book you've read in the last 12 months:

Ouch. That's a horribly tough call.

On the other hand, I now have to skim through all these lovely reminders of what I've read...hm...

( And the winner is... )

#67: Love, West Hollywood edited by Chris Freeman and James J. Berg:I'm a white girl from New England, with a snooty college education that prepared me to teach English classes to other uptight Boston kids. To be discussing rumors of pubic lice in a dingy Sunset Boulevard motel, is not where I expected my life to take me ( Read more... )

#54: Pickets and Dead Men: Seasons on Rainier by Bree Loewen:I remembered Glenn telling me about finding two boys who had fallen to their deaths on an icy day a little ways above here, just at the base of the Cleaver. He didn't have any nets or body bags with him, so he had to fly them out with the cable just hooked to their climbing harnesses. He ( Read more... )

#52: Transparent: Love, Family and Living the T with Transgender Teenagers by Cris Beam:

“I can’t,” she said, “It’s right next to me. I’m in the sink ( Read more... )

#47: Riddle of the Sands by Geoffrey Knight:

Will looked at Daniel, then at Shane, then shook his head. "No offense, dude, but we're on a very tight schedule here, our friend has just been shot with poison darts, and I don't know who the hell you are ( Read more... )

#44: Coffee to Die For by Linda French:

Alongside Teddy, Sister Bede Kinney sat with hands clasped, the picture of perfect humility and call-to-service. In Bede's eyes danced the question: just how did Asian boys in ballgowns fit into the Lord's great Scheme of Things?

Synopsis: History professor Teddy Morelli has a complicated family, and while ( Read more... )

# 43: Rogue's Valley by Kathleen Creighton:

"Oh, Jason, look! It's like a supermarket!" She whirled, arms spread wide to encompass it all: thickets of wild rose, heavy with orange rose hips; tangles of currant and gooseberry bushes, some with a few overlooked berries still clinging to low-hanging branches. A bird flew up, flushed from cover by her ( Read more... )