40s with a Black Dahlia-type investigation thrown in. Really well written.

"A fast-paced and often hilarious classic of contemporary fiction, True Confessions is about a crime that has no solutions, only victims."

It was a movie, too, with Robert Duvall and Robert De Niro.

I picked up some of Terry Pratchett books. I am reading Weathersmith which is a young adult novel featuring a 13 year old witch in training Tiffany Aching. It is a lot of fun and quite humorous.

That's the one I'm listening to. Really enjoyable.

Granny Weatherwax
Mrs Earwig
Miss Level
Miss Pullunder
Miss Eumenides Treason
And others.

And Miss Tick is mystic, what better name for a witch? I didn't catch on to that right away....

by Arnaldur Indriðason
one his first in his Erlendur series, actually the 3rd but the 1st translated.
have read many of his later in the series, and located this copy in a local thrift shop...
from wiki: The body of a 70-year-old man who was struck on the head with a glass ashtray is found in a flat in Norðurmýri. The only clues are a photograph of a young girl's grave and a cryptic note left on the body. Detective Erlendur discovers that the victim was accused of a violent rape some forty years earlier but was never convicted.
and
far from reinforcing the kind of myths of Icelandic national identity promoted by eugenicists earlier in the twentieth century and re-invoked by the publicity machine around DeCODE, Indriđason’s novel uses the figure of the defective gene not only to expose and trouble national mythologies of social and familial cohesion and continuity but to ask some fundamental questions about the meaning of innocence and guilt, justice and punishment in the face of the identification of genes that bear the secret not of life but of death.

quite a creepy mystery and intriguing Icelandic police procedural

✌🏼

Will have to keep an eye out for it.

the road trip was so much fun. I hope you like it, too.

Moving on to Crooked Heart by Lissa Evans and wishing I could give credit to whomever recomended it. What a good story.

by Katarina Bivald.

The protagonist is dead. She was killed by a truck while crossing the road near the beloved motel where she worked. She is unable to move on to the next plane.

It is supposed to be dark humor. There are LGBTQ themes. I will finish the book, but I would not recommend it to anyone. I don't like it.

We'll give that one a miss. I like the name, though. The Pine Away.

Hey, I hope you are feeling better now. I saw where you were ailing from the flu and I thought to myself that this is a really bad time to get the flu. Not that there's any really good time to have it, but you know what I mean. Scary stuff. So, wishing you and hubby good health.

Last year I read The Liebermann Papers, a series by Frank Tallis and loved it. Well, BBC made a series out of three of the books. Each one runs 1 1/2 hours, but Masterpiece decided to split them in half for some reason (actually they might contain more 'adult' material than PBS's usual stuff).
They started showing it last week but my local channel was out for most of the week (new antenna). They did re-air the first one Friday night, but I saved it so that I can watch the first show in full tonight.
Dr. Liebermann is an early psychiatrist, trained by Freud, who gets together with a police detective with whom he solves murders. It's turn-of-the century Vienna, so it's pretty much a Viennese "Alienist." Liebermann is Jewish and boy is there plenty of antisemitism in the books, not to mention music and strudel.
I read that some of the people who worked on Sherlock were involved. Hoping they did a good job.

Evidently the show is called Vienna Blood and I hope they put it out on DVD eventually. I'd like to see it.