A NECESSARY END

 Peter Robinson. A NECESSARY END. Pan, 1989.

Banks and Sandra are still married. 

The GLASS COFFIN

Gail Bowen. The Glass Coffin: A Joanne Kilbourn Mystery. McC&S, 2002.

A doomed winter wedding, about marrying for the wrong reasons.

HACKS

Donna Brazile. HACKS: The Inside Story of the Break-ins and Breakdowns That Put Donald Trump in the White House. Hachette, 2017.

A democratic party worker and pundit who becomes acting chair of the DNC, trying to work with the Hillary Clinton election team. Learning on the run about computer hacking generated from Russia. 

The busy-ness and the responsibility and the amount of travel involved. I really felt for the negative impact upon the environment.

REACHER SAID NOTHING

Andy Martin. REACHER SAID NOTHING: Lee Child and the Making of Make Me. Bantam, 2015.

An academic, journalist, writer shadows Lee Child as he writes his 20th Jack Reacher novel. Very interesting depiction of one writer's process. He may have a title. He has no plot, other than knowing that Reacher will survive.

SPLINTER THE SILENCE

Val McDERMID. SPLINTER THE SILENCE. HarperCollins, 2019. 

I am so happy to have been introduced to this Scots crime writer equally as entertaining as Ian Rankin, and with female protagonists too. My selections have been in the Carol Jordan /Tony Hill series. In this one, Carol finishes re-doing the barn, gets arrested for drunk driving, and heads the new re-MIT major incident (crime) team. As a practice-run, they uncover a previously unknown serial killer. 

SCARBOROUGH

Catherine Hernandez. SCARBOROUGH. Arsenal, 2017.

Winner of CBC Canada Reads this year, 2022. Voices of students, parents, teachers, and administrators in a Toronto suburb. Although I am not usually a fan of stories told from a child's POV, this book is the exception. Revealing and moving.

Evelyn Evelyn

Palmer and Webley. EVELYN EVELYN. Dark Horse Books, 2011. 

A graphic novel about the unfortunate life of Siamese twin girls, Americans, who end up in Manitoba.