Recent Reads

Kate Atkinson's When Will There be Good News is an absolute gem.  This is the 3rd Ms. Atkinson novel I have read and the 2nd featuring investigator Jackson Brodie.  She has a way with dialogue and her general prose which brings to mind words flowing as easily as water pours over a waterfall.  She has a great sense of humor and of character without brooding or noir-ish cliches. Everything I have read of hers has been refreshing and gripping, so much so that I don't want to get to the end as soon as I do!  

Recent Reads

Jacqueline Winspear's latest Maisie Dobbs novel, Among the Dead.  The series is set in 1920s and 1930s London and while being a bit on the melodramatic side, is very readable and interesting.  Ms. Winspear is an ex-pat Brit living in California.  She certainly seems to do a huge amount of research for these books.  Either that or she's making it all up - not a crime amongst novelists.