Elizabeth L. Silver's "Execution of Noa P. Singleton" was great, incredibly heartbreaking. Noa is on death row for killing her father's young, pregnant girlfriend, Sarah. Sarah's mother who once championed the death penalty for Noa, is now hiring attorneys to try to get the sentence commuted to life in prison, but Noa is fighting her. Noa wants to die, feels she deserves to die, not for Sarah but for something else she has lived with for a very long time. Marlene, Sarah's mother, just wants to keep Noa alive long enough to find out why she killed her daughter. It was very sad but good.
"Hangman's Daughter" by Oliver Potzsch was really great, I enjoyed it a lot. Set in a small Bavarian town in 1659, the local hangman, Jakob Kuisl, is working against the clock to prove the local midwife is not a witch after children are murdered with a mysterious mark on them. Jakob's daughter, Magdalena, and her boyfriend, Simon, set out to help Jakob discover the truth before it's too late.
"Walking Dead Vol. 18" by Robert Kirkman was pretty boring, actually. I can't remember the last time I really enjoyed these books. I keep reading them, though, silly me :) Rick makes a deal with Negan that seems to sell out his townfolk. Carl tries to take on Negan himself with not so great results. Honestly the series has run its course.
Warren Ellis's first volume staring Spider Jerusalem, "Transmetropolitan", is a great graphic novel set in a dystopian future. Spider was a famous journalist who has spent the last five years living on a mountain away from civilization when his book publisher calls him up demanding the book Spider owes him, or he'll sue. Spider reluctantly leaves his mountain and heads back to the city, where he gets work being a real journalist again and observing the crap going on around him. I liked it a lot: it was dark and edgy and fun.
"Dark Monk" by Oliver Potzsch is his second book in the Hangman's Daughter series, and like the first one I really enjoyed it. Kuisl, Magdalena, and Simon are on an interesting quest to solve a mystery of the Knights Templar.
And finally, "You Make Me Feel So Dead" by Robert J. Randisi. I read an Advanced Reader copy a few weeks ago, his latest Rat Pack mystery. Eddie G. is babysitting Elvis in Las Vegas as a favor to the Colonel, who is worried about the crowd E is running with. Eddie has also promised his friend Danny that he'll figure out what's going on with his secretary, Penny. Penny's ex-boyfriend turns up dead after blackmailing her, and it looks like Danny might be on the hook for it. Elvis, Frank, Dean all want to help Eddie clear Danny's name. As usual, it was great fun and I enjoyed this quick read.
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