What Fiction are you reading this week, March 19, 2023?

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I'm reading The Perplexing Theft of the Jewel in the Crown by Vaseem Khan, featuring "the most charming crime-solving duo ever to grace the pages of a book." I like cats but elephants are in a class by themselves. Wonderful.
Earlier I read An Elderly Lady Is Up To No Good by Helene Tursten, a tiny, wickedly funny little book. The adventures of an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. A woman after my own heart.

Listening to Raging Heat by Richard Castle. Balancing her high stakes job with a complicated romance has been a challenge ever since Nikki Heat fell for a famous writer. "Now, her relationship lurches from mere complexity into sharp conflict over the most high-risk case of her career. Set against the raging force of Hurricane Sandy as it pounds New York, Heat battles an ambitious power broker, fights a platoon of urban mercenaries, and clashes with the man she loves. Detective Heat knows her job is to solve murders. She just worries that solving this one will be the death of her relationship."
Richard Castle is a pseudonym for Tom Straw. Straw published his first mystery novel, The Trigger Episode, in 2007. Subsequently, writing as Richard Castle, he authored seven more crime novels, all of which became bestsellers. He's also a TV writer and producer of many shows like Night Court and Grace Under Fire. The ghostwriter of the more current Castle books remains a true mystery.

Any mysteries in your reading this week?

Happy Spring!