just finished: nothing. Lol. I took a week off, hoping to get some extra reading done. And I guess I did. I’ve been starting books right and left. I just haven’t finished anything yet. I’m in that mood.
currently reading: I’m closing in on halfway through The Butterfly House, Katrine Engberg’s follow-up to The Tenant. It follows the same police detectives, and it’s just as amazing. A woman is killed, drained of blood, and left naked in a city fountain. The only surveillance they can find of the person leaving the body there is of a hooded figure with a cargo bike, so they don’t have much to go on. But the brutality of the crime, blended with the banality of everyday life (particularly for Anette Werner, who is on maternity leave), makes for a fascinating look at crime solving in Copenhagen. I’m also reading Before the Ruins, about a man who goes missing and his best friend from high school who tries to figure out what happened to him. Victoria Gosling’s London-based thriller is lovely and haunting and atmospheric, and reading this book is like immersing yourself in a dream. And then I’m also reading Lisa Gardner’s latest, Before She Disappeared. Gardner is a perennial bestselling author, so it’s no surprise that this is completely engrossing. A woman with a mysterious past goes from town to town looking for missing people, and this time she’s embedding herself in Boston’s Haitian community, trying to find a teenaged girl who left school on a Friday and disappeared. They found her backpack, but nothing else. Frankie Elkin is determined to find her. She’s already found 14 missing persons. She just hasn’t found any of them alive.
up next: There are so many great books coming out the first couple of weeks of February, I’m not even sure where to start. I may need to buy some darts to help me out.
