The cicada invasion has found me cuddled up at home with escape fiction like it was the middle of February! And nothing relieves cabin fever like chick lit or a good thriller!
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
“The weird sisters” of the title are not necessarily all that peculiar, but as daughters of a professor of Shakespeare who names them after the bard’s most famous female characters , it is not surprising that the phrase clings to them.
Rosalind, Bianca, and Cordelia love each other, but claim not to like each other very much. After years of living apart, the bookish sisters (There is no problem a library card can’t solve) find themselves awkwardly reunited. The three descend on the family home packing serious secrets.
Returned to their childhood threesome, the sisters regress into familiar patterns of recrimination and resentment. But in the end, to paraphrase Irving Berlin, Lord help whoever comes between these sisters.
An enjoyable read, if a bit predictable.
A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart
A Plague of Secrets is a recent addition to the long running series of legal thrillers by John Lescroart that feature homicide lieutenant Abe Gilitsky and attorney Dismas Hardy. Set in present day San Francisco, the novels are a combination of police procedural and court room drama.
In this story, Abe and Dismas investigate/defend a local coffee shop owner who was serving marijuana and murder with the lattes. Like all Lescroart’s novel’s, this one is briskly paced and intelligent.
All the Colors of Darkness by Peter Robinson
Eastvale(Yorkshire) may not be the urban jungle that is San Francisco, but DCI Alan Banks and his colleagues see plenty of mayhem. In All the Colors of Darkness, the investigation of an apparent murder- suicide puts Banks on the wrong side of important people.
This is Peter Robinson’s 18th novel set in balmy Yorkshire, and the gritty plots and the characters are as engaging as ever.
