No complaints today. The weather has been gorgeous, 70s and low 80s during the day. I’m an Ohio resident again, with my driver’s license, car title, registration, license tags, voter registration. And, I have my library card to the Columbus Metropolitan Library System! It’s been a fruitful week. What about you? Did you have a good week?

I SHOULD be reading for either Library Journal reviews or for moderating a panel for the Library Journal Day of Dialog. I did finish three books this week for reviews. But, today I started Ben Aaronovitch’s Winter’s Gifts. It’s a spin-off of his Rivers of London series. Magic, and gods, and all things unexplained. This one is set in the United States and features FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. She works for the department that handles the weird, the supernatural and the genuine occult. In fact, she’s worked with Detective Constable Peter Grant in London. (Think X-Files.)

When retired FBI Agent Patrick Henderson calls in an ‘X-Ray Sierra India’ incident, the operator doesn’t understand. He tells them to pass it up the chain till someone does.

That person is FBI Special Agent Kimberley Reynolds. Leaving Quantico for snowbound Northern Wisconsin, she finds that a tornado has flattened half the town—and there’s no sign of Henderson.

Things soon go from weird to worse, as neighbors report unsettling sightings, key evidence goes missing, and the snow keeps rising—cutting off the town, with no way in or out…

Something terrible is awakening. As the clues lead to the coldest of cold cases—a cursed expedition into the frozen wilderness—Reynolds follows a trail from the start of the American nightmare, to the horror that still lives on today…

I love these kind of urban fantasy books.

What about you? What are you reading this week?