Mini-reviews for my A-to-Z BLUES, PUPUS, and REVIEWS theme
appear on Monday and Wednesday.
This Wednesday is also #IWSG day!
Often
I get stuck in my writing or start to feel less than confident with a current
WIP. That’s when I like to pick up a book that will entertain me without making
me feel guilty for not working on my own project. I am a sucker for any book with
the word “bones” in the title.
Admittedly,
Kathy Reichs cornered the market with the television series BONES, and her novel Flash and Bones is high on my reading list. At the top of that list
is Keri Hulme’s The Bone People, but
several other authors with “bones” novels have also entertained me over the
years.
My A-list of “bones” books includes
The
Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold,
heralded by the Chicago Tribune as saying
“. . . there are more important things in life than
retribution.
Like forgiveness, like love.”
Jan
Burke’s Bones: An Irene Kelly Mystery offers
a controversial story that moves forward at a steady pace. The Bone Collector: The First Lincoln Rhyme Novel made best-seller
Jeffrey Deaver a favorite on many lists. The kindle edition is scheduled for release
in May, 2014. Winter’s Bone by Daniel
Woodrell offers a look at poverty in the Ozarks that gives me a chill even now.
Other
guilt-free favorites are:
Bag of Bones by
Stephen King
City of Bones
(A Harry Bosch Novel) by Michael Connelly
The Bone Garden
by Tess Gerritsen
At
a book sale, I came across Bones: A Forensic
Detective’s Casebook by Dr. Douglas Uberlaker that demonstrates how bones
can speak for the dead. It is a good reference book for mystery writers.
What is your favorite “BONES” title?
