My COVID-caused reading slump is over! Our mannequin is dressed with authors’ written words. Words I’ve read!

My own story bite this week is titled “Feu! Feu!“

What I’m Reading

I emerged from a long COVID-shutdown reading slump this week. A book from the romance genre sparked the comeback: Widow of Rose House, by Diana Biller. A romance ghost story, set in New York in 1875. By no means my go-to genre for reading, but it came recommended. A welcome change of pace for me.

From romance I moved back to my favored mystery and thriller genres. I discovered two authors who each have a number of novels published…and one author available on Libby!

I read Loreth Anne White’s Beneath Devil’s Bridge, a story that reminds me of HBO Max’s Mare of Easttown. Both are stories of murdered teens in a small town environment. I’m only one episode into Mare, but it has promise. The novel is suspenseful, well written. A podcaster unearths a long-buried memory of a local teen’s brutal death. “If it takes a village to raise a child, does it also take a village to kill one?”

I also discovered Allison Brennan’s The Third to Die, a genuine page-turner. Drama with FBI and local police fighting each other as they search for a serial killer. And Brennan has lots of other novels I can now enjoy.

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