Fiction
In reply to the discussion: What Fiction are you reading this week, April 7, 2024? [View all]NanaCat
(2,332 posts)I haven't kept up with the Rebus series after it 'ended' with Exit Music, but that's mostly because I'd have to re-read the series from the beginning to get back into its groove. Maybe another year.
This week, I'll read Edgar Best Novel Winner Bluebird, Bluebird by Attica Locke. Thriller featuring a black Texas Ranger suspended from his job for helping out a guy arrested for (allegedly) killing the Aryan Brotherhood trash heap who was harassing his granddaughter. Adding to the tension is how this happened in the deepest, darkest boonies of yokelstan East Texas--one of the most racist places on earth. While the Ranger's there, lo and behold, what turns up surfacing from a local bayou but a murdered black man from Chicago. Only two days later, the body of a local white woman is found in the bayou as well. As if the racist pot wasn't boiling enough already. I probably won't get any sleep with this one.
I'll also read Kaia Alderson's Sister in Arms about a squadron of black women serving as WACs who deliver mail to soldiers in Europe during WWII. I'm beyond burnt out with WWII novels, especially the ones about women serving because so many of them are woefully formulaic, but I've committed to reading the ALA book-a-week. So I'm stuck with this one, but we'll see if it transcends the formula.
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