A Thursday Murder Club mystery, fun and engaging, mostly because of the characters. Plot is fairly good and a surprise. Stolen diamonds, who has them?
Sunday, June 21, 2026
The Deep Blue Goodbye by John D. MacDonald
A private eye helps a pretty girl. What could go wrong? Gritty and explicit. The writing is very good, perhaps even better than Chandler, who this is very much like.
The Widow by John Grisham
(read aloud)
Very good mystery of greedy small-town lawyer wrongly convicted of murder. His life in shambles, he rushes to find the real killer.
The Rigor of Angels by William Egginton
Borges Heisenberg, Kant and the interface of quantum mechanics and philosophy, space, time, and reality. Deep and interesting, written with insight, pace, and patience. Worth the effort.
A Darkness More Than Night by Michael Connelly
A Bosch police murder story. Quite good with suspicions about Bosch and some interesting asides about the eponymous painter.
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Lots of good advice presented in a fun way. Young people should read this.
The Waters of Eternal Youth by Donna Leon
(read aloud)
Brunetti is getting older. Scarpa more brazen. A beautiful woman who has been brain damaged for 15 years after a near-drowning perhaps gets justice.
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