What Fiction are you reading this week, April 21, 2024?
Welcome
I've just started reading Fourteen Days and is it ever fun. Thirty six authors; the first one has me laughing out loud in spite of the horror of thousands dying from Covid back in 1921. Gosh, that seems like a decade ago, not just a few years. It's also fun trying to figure out which author you're reading from the writing style. At the end of the book all will be revealed.
Listening to Solitude Creek by Jeffrey Deaver again. I was listening to it a few months back but lost track of where I was and gave up on it. Now I'm back with agent Kathryn Dance as she searches for an arsonist who is obsessed with turning people's fears and greed into weapons, and he's about to strike again.
Saturday the 27th is Independent Bookstore Day, so do visit your local independent store, if you've got one.
And have a Happy Earth Day tomorrow. Do something nice for the planet.
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"A novel about the first Black sheriff in a small Southern town, and his hunt for a killer." Sounds great. 
to read that he died in 2020. I've always enjoyed his books and the one I'm reading now is no exception. Beautiful writing and a real page turner.
Terry Kay's book, Dark Thirty
In the sleepy town of Tickenaley, Georgia, they call the thirty minutes between day and night Dark Thirty. The memory of daylight lingers, but falling darkness brings with it haze, change and uncertainty. One day at Dark Thirty, Jesse Wade, in high spirits, carrying a birthday gift for his beloved grandson, returns home to a scene of unspeakable horror. His entire family—wife, children, grandchild—have been savagely slain. In one slashing moment, the life of this decent, loving, home-rooted man is torn apart forever.
Not since In Cold Blood has a book probed so deeply and so powerfully into the human drama that a senseless act of savagery leaves in its wake—the agony of Jesse Wade, the panic of the townspeople, the burden of the lawyers who must defend the killers, and the encroachment of the news media, exploiting it all. As the story unfolds, Terry Kay also dramatically brings to light the complex social issues we all face in a violent time: justice vs. vengeance, the failings of our legal system, capital punishment. In this beautifully written, deeply felt novel, Terry Kay chillingly juxtaposes the pastoral beauty of Appalachia and the traditional values of small-town America with the spreading stain of evil that threatens us all.
Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic!
dark thirty. Long ago and far away but I recall.
My poor old TBR list is getting so looong, thank goodness for computers. I can't even imagine if I had to keep it all handwritten. 
...so new fiction is piling up beside my bed, lol. Fourteen Days is on the top of the heap, though it will likely be several months before I get to it. I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it!
