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Murder Crossed Her Mind, by Stephen Spotswood, is the fourth in his series Parker and Pentecost mysteries. The series is set mostly in New York City, shortly after World War II.
The books work well as mysteries. Also, part of what I like about them is that one of the two detectives is living with multiple sclerosis, at a point when her doctor can't give her much besides stretches and advice about when to rest, which she often ignores, because resting is boring even if you aren't racing against the clock to solve a mystery. Her assistant is bi, ran away from home/was kicked out when her parents found out, and spent a few years working for a circus before coming to New York. Her boss doesn't consider this a problem in itself, but sometimes reminds Parker to be careful, because being queer could get her into legal as well as social trouble.
I read The Wednesday Wars for book club, finished it about an hour and a half before the book club meeting, and decided that I liked it, but didn't think I had much to say about it, so I skipped the book club. The book is a historical novel about a seventh grader, Shakespeare, and his family, set in suburban Long Island in 1966-68. The narrator is mostly interested in school, his friends and immediate family, and baseball, but there's no way to ignore national and world events, even if his father didn't insist on listening to Walter Cronkite every night.
The books work well as mysteries. Also, part of what I like about them is that one of the two detectives is living with multiple sclerosis, at a point when her doctor can't give her much besides stretches and advice about when to rest, which she often ignores, because resting is boring even if you aren't racing against the clock to solve a mystery. Her assistant is bi, ran away from home/was kicked out when her parents found out, and spent a few years working for a circus before coming to New York. Her boss doesn't consider this a problem in itself, but sometimes reminds Parker to be careful, because being queer could get her into legal as well as social trouble.
I read The Wednesday Wars for book club, finished it about an hour and a half before the book club meeting, and decided that I liked it, but didn't think I had much to say about it, so I skipped the book club. The book is a historical novel about a seventh grader, Shakespeare, and his family, set in suburban Long Island in 1966-68. The narrator is mostly interested in school, his friends and immediate family, and baseball, but there's no way to ignore national and world events, even if his father didn't insist on listening to Walter Cronkite every night.
