"Bad Monkey" by Carl Hiaasen was pretty hilarious. A tourist fishing boat pulls up an arm and a disgraced police officer named Andrew Yancey is determined to get to the bottom of it, despite being demoted to restaurant inspector.
"Lost Girls" by Caitlin Rother was well written and heartbreaking. John Gardner, a sexual predator, raped and murdered two teenage girls a year apart before he was caught. Rother details how the system broke down and even allowed Gardner to be on the street to begin with.
Dave Egger's latest, "The Circle", was truly scary despite being fiction. It takes place in a future I can definitely see happening at the rate we're going. The Circle starts out as an online social network but soon becomes so much more. Transparency is the key, and no one is allowed privacy, nor should they *want* privacy. It's like an updated version of Orwell's "1984".
"Elizabeth of York" by Alison Weir is her usually meticulously researched and well written look at Henry VIII's mother, who saw so much change during her short life. From her father being on the throne to tossed off of it, to be put back on, to die young and have his kingdom in upheaval. She had to marry Henry VII, who stole the throne from King Richard III (my opinion, not Weir's) and become mother to one of history's most awful men. Fascinating.
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