A new stack of books!

Here is the next lineup. Dead Watch by John Sandford. I always read his Prey series and his Virgil Flowers books are super sexy. I don't care too much about his other series but I found this standalone book from 2006 that I somehow missed so I am giving it a try now. It has a political setting which isn't one of my favorites but the writing is familiar Sandford so that makes it worth my time.

Displaced Persons by Ghita Schwarz. This one I found just browsing the library New shelf. It sounds interesting. From the Harper Collins website:

An astonishing tale of grief and anger, memory and survival, Displaced Persons marks the arrival of a supremely gifted new literary talent, Ghita Schwarz. Schwarz’s powerful story of a group of Holocaust survivors—“displaced persons”—struggling to remake their lives and cope with the stigma of their pasts in the wake of the monumental Nazi horror is beautiful, tragic, moving, and unforgettable, chronicling the lives of ordinary people who have suffered under extraordinary circumstances.

The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley was recommended by a good friend of mine. It is a nice long book so I am waiting to have a big block of time to dig into it. Maybe Thanksgiving weekend? King Arthur's story from the perspective of  female characters. 


The next two books are older titles I  found on a seach on Novelist as readalikes for other books I have enjoyed. Hopefully they will be awesome! The first one sounds delicously twisted!!! YAY

The Dark Lantern by Gerri Brightwell. 

Editorial Review - Publishers Weekly vol. 254 iss. 50 p. 29 (c) 12/17/2007

Brightwell’s debut, an uncanny thriller, brings late Victorian London to vivid life. Devon-born housemaid Jane Wilbred has snared her new post with the Bentley family with a letter of reference she forged, omitting any mention of the possibly pertinent fact that her late mother was a notorious murderer. That, however, is trifling compared to the shady games being played both upstairs and downstairs at 32 Cursitor Road while the family matriarch lingers on her deathbed, especially the struggle between mysterious beauty Mina Bentley, wife of younger son Robert, and the wan stranger who claims to be the widow of older brother Henry (drowned recently while sailing home after years in India). Meanwhile, Robert is focused on a battle closer to his heart: winning official recognition for anthropometry, the science of identifying criminals by body measurements. Far from being an arcane digression, Robert’s passion eventually figures into the intricate and surprising plot. The action will keep the reader as intrigued as a parlor maid eavesdropping outside her mistress’s boudoir. 

and finally....

The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld.  

"A spellbinding thriller featuring Sigmund Freud and the search for a diabolical killer in turn of the century New York." This book has mixed reviews so we'll just see about that!