What Fiction are you reading this week, July 12, 2026? [View all]

Heat got ya down?


Reading Walk the Wire by David Baldacci, the 6th book in the Memory Man series, aka the Amos Decker series. Decker and Jamison are sent by the FBI to investigate the death of a young woman in London, North Dakota (not a real town). London is experiencing a fracking boom and is replete with ruthless business owners, shady government officials, and religious outsiders. If you've ever wondered how fracking works, wonder no more. You can read all about it here. Sad to say the writing isn't great but it seemed to be an interesting mystery. And now I'm starting to find it boring.

Listened to Murder on the Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood. The amateur sleuths of the Marlow Murder Club investigate the murder of the founder of the Amateur Dramatic Society so there's lots of theatre fun.
Now listening to Only If You're Lucky by Stacy Willingham. Four young ladies attending a liberal arts college in South Carolina decide to get an off-campus house together. It's all fun and parties until one of the fraternity boys from the house next door is found brutally murdered and one of the girls is missing. A tantalizing thriller about the nature of friendship and belonging, about loyalty, envy, and betrayal.