Maybe it was the Stieg Larsson novels or the business of life and relatively mundane projects at work, but I've been consuming mystery novels voraciously as of late.
I started with Benjamin Black's Christine Falls. Black is the pseudonym for John Banville the Booker Prize winning author, so I had high hopes for his mysteries. But Christine Falls felt less like a mystery and more like delving into a strange family history to answer "why". Never are you on the edge of your seat - always a requirement for my favorite mysteries.
After taking Dead Ringer by Lisa Scottoline from my parent's house, I've read another of her mysteries (Lady Killer) and have two more on the shelf. Scottoline's characters are sassy, strong women which makes for fun reading. The first two I read featured Benny Rosato and the associates at her young law firm. It looks like Scottoline took the characters in different directions through four or five books and recently revisited those characters, so there could be more ahead.
Greg Iles' Dead Sleep is our June book club book. It's our departure from our usual literary fiction, but Iles is a great mystery writer and leaves you guessing along the way. Dead Sleep starts with Jordan Glass, a world-renowned photojournalist, happens on an exhibit of a series of paintings known as "The Sleeping Women," she is stunned to discover that one of the models--a nude who, like the other women in the paintings, looks dead rather than asleep--is her twin sister, Jane, who disappeared from her New Orleans home more than a year ago. Jordan becomes involved in the case with the FBI and is even used to lure the killer putting her life in danger.
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