I know some of you will pick up the slack today since I’m in New York. I should have time to drop in this morning. I haven’t really decided what I’m doing today, although I’m heading to the Met tomorrow to see the Winslow Homer exhibit.

I will tell you what book I brought with me, hoping to read some of it.

Sandra Dallas’ latest book, Little Souls, was just released. Her books are hit or miss for me. I’ve loved several, liked a number of them, and found one or two just okay. But, her novel, The Persian Pickle Club is still one of my all-time favorites. Here’s the description of Little Souls.

“Sandra Dallas’s Little Souls is a gripping tale of sisterhood, loyalty, and secrets set in Denver amid America’s last deadly flu pandemic.

“Colorado, 1918. World War I is raging overseas, but it’s the home front battling for survival. With the Spanish Flu rampant, Denver’s schools are converted into hospitals, churches and funeral homes are closed, and horse-drawn wagons collect corpses left in the street. Sisters Helen and Lutie have moved to Denver from Iowa after their parents’ deaths. Helen, a nurse, and Lutie, a carefree advertising designer at a fashionable women’s store share a small, neat house, and each finds a local beau―for Helen a doctor, for Lutie a young student who soon enlists. They make a modest income from a rental apartment in the basement. When their tenant dies from the flu, the sisters are thrust into caring for the woman’s small daughter, Dorothy. Soon after, Lutie comes home from work and discovers a dead man on their kitchen floor and Helen standing above the body, an icepick in hand. She has no doubt Helen killed the man―Dorothy’s father―in self-defense, but she knows that will be hard to prove. They decide to leave the body in the street, hoping to disguise it as a flu victim.

“Meanwhile Lutie also worries about her fiancé “over there.” As it happens, his wealthy mother harbors a secret of her own and helps the sisters as the danger deepens, from both the murder investigation and the outbreak.”

What about you? What are you reading this week?