What Fiction are you reading this week, November 27, 2022?

[hermetic]

I am reading The Vinyl Detective: Written in Dead Wax by Andrew Cartmel. I've been looking forward to reading this series as I have long been involved with music and used to have a fairly large vinyl collection. This first story was published in 2016 and introduces us to a record collector and connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the “Vinyl Detective” and some people take this more literally than others. Like a mysterious woman who wants to pay him a large sum of money to find a priceless lost recording. Since he's just about to run out of cat biscuits, this gets our hero’s full attention. So begins a painful and dangerous odyssey in search of the rarest jazz record of all. At just under 500 pages, this tale gets pretty involved with everyday details that do detract from the story, somewhat. But then something really intriguing happens that just keeps me going. And I spend way too much time researching the records he writes about. The main one is made up but enough of the others are real so that keeps you wondering if maybe that one was real, too, way back when. Good mystery.

I'm listening to Old Bones, the first in the groundbreaking Nora Kelly series from #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child. Nora is a young curator with a series of important excavations already under her belt. She is asked to lead an expedition unlike any other, searching for remains of the ill-fated Donner Party. It's a good one.

What good books will you be reading this week, while you enjoy your turkey sandwiches?