Ace is Ace

Yes, Ace Atkins has done it again.  Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic is the forty-sixth Spenser book and I am again very thankful that Parker's family found Mr. Atkins and that Mr. Atkins agreed to carry on the Spenser stories.  My only sadness about this one was that Hawk wasn't there!  Other than that, this was perfection! 

Horrors of War

Salt to the Sea is an incredible historical fiction novel about an incident during WW2 that I had not heard of, the sinking of the German MV Wilhelm Gustloff by a Soviet sub in 1945.  It was the largest incident of loss of life in maritime history.
Ruta Sepetys is a really incredible writer.  I think this is the third book of her's that I have read.
It is told of the POV from 4 people:  a German soldier with serious mental issues, a Prussian dude who is fighting Hitler under the radar, a young Polish girl and young woman with medical training.
A heart-breaking story about a horrific time in history.

Peter and Rina! On the East Coast!

So after I finished the last Peter Decker/Rina Lazarus novel by the amazing Faye Kellerman, I wrote to Ms. Kellerman with much worry, that the end of the road had come for PD/RL books.  And she assured me no!  Again, I was so excited that she would take the time to write back to me and then super excited to learn that there were going to be more books!  And this month Murder 101 came out!  I preordered it from audible and jumped right in, very excited to hear that Richard Ferrone was the narrator!  I wrote Ms. Kellerman before I was even done with the book to tell her how much I was enjoying it, and she wrote back again!
I love this new turn that Rina and Peter's life has taken.  I love the setting, the promise that the kids will be still involved and maybe even more so, since they will be close.  I loved, loved, loved all of it.  The only bad thing...gotta wait another year for the next one! But man, these books are worth the wait!