"Anne Perry and the Murder of the Century" by Peter Graham examines the Juliet Hume/Pauline Parker case in which the two teenage girls murdered Pauline's mother. Why they did, the events leading up to the murder, were closely examined. It was really interesting. Both girls served time in prison in New Zealand, where the murders occurred, and when Juliet got out she changed her name to Anne Perry and ended up becoming a bestselling murder mystery writer. I've never read any of her books, although I keep meaning to. Also, hilarious side note, Google's spell check did not recognize "Zealand" as a real word :)
"You & Me" by Padgett Powell was a super quick fiction read about two middle aged men sitting on a porch, discussing life, the universe, and everything in it. It was pretty funny and very clever.
"Honey Pie" by Donna Kauffman is the fourth book in her sticky sweet Cupcake Club romance series. Honey moves to Sugarberry Island from Oregon after her aunt dies and leaves her a building in her will. Honey, who is psychic and can foresee disaster, has kept herself mostly isolated from the world because of how hard it is to know bad things are coming to people, shows up on the Island only to find that a property company her aunt hired has already leased out the building she was planning on living and working in--to Lani, popular owner of Cakes by the Cup, to run her mail order cupcake business, Babycakes, out of. Of course Honey can't throw Lani out of the building, but now she has nowhere to live and no money to rent a space of her own (the rent for the building went to pay her aunt's medical bills). Luckily Honey meets the gorgeous town mechanic, Dylan, and they both fall for each other. Even *more* luckily, Dylan owns lots of office space! Isn't it lovely when everything works out?
"Salt, Sugar, and Fat" by Michael Moss was horrifying but a very important read about how basically everything in the grocery store in a box, can, bag, etc., isn't really food but specially processed by food companies to pack in as much sugar, salt, and fat as possible. Yikes. I want to move to farm in the midwest and grow my own food.
"The Cocktail Waitress" by James M. Cain was a cool fiction about Joan, whose abusive husband dies one night in a car crash after having too much to drink. In order to make ends meet and provide for her young son, Joan takes a job as a cocktail waitress. One of the detectives investigating the case is convinced Joan had something to do with the death of her husband, but can't find proof. While working, Joan meets two men: Earl K. White is older, wealthy, and has a potentially fatal heart condition that makes physical activity impossible, and Tom, who is young, handsome, and broke. Joan agrees to marry Earl in order to provide for her son, even though she really loves Tom. When Earl dies not long after they marry from a drug being slipped into his medication, leaving Joan a very wealthy widow, this time the police are convinced she had a hand in it. When Tom also turns up dead, Joan is arrested for murder. She swears she had nothing to do with it...
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