Everyone doing okay, post-vaccine or without vaccines? I hope everyone is enjoying an occasional beautiful spring day. And, I hope you’re all enjoying a good book or two!

I won’t really talk much about Sarah Stewart Taylor’s A Distant Grave. I’m halfway through this June release, reviewing it for a journal. It’s the sequel to The Mountains Wild, one of my favorite books of 2020. In fact, it was one of Library Journal‘s best crime novels of the year. I loved that book. It’s set in Ireland, an atmospheric mystery that combines contemporary crime with a cold case, a case that’s personal to Maggie D’Arcy. Maggie is a police detective in Long Island who travels to Ireland in search of answers about her cousin’s disappearance. That’s the first book, The Mountains Wild. Maggie’s back in Ireland, supposedly on vacation in the second book, but she’s working a case that spans both the U.S. and Ireland.

What about you? What are you reading this week? I hope you’ve found a book or two that you enjoy.