Looking forward to getting out and about this summer. Finally. Starting with my niece’s wedding at the end of the month. It will be great seeing all the kin I haven’t seen since—when? The last wedding!

Not quite on the countdown to the new book, but I’m hoping to have it at the copyeditor’s before we leave town for the wedding. It’s NOT a Travelers book, but it takes place in the Travelers’ world. The plot concerns Capt. KD Thorne and her partner Jeffery Blunt, operatives with the National Defense Agency. (You might recall Clara Garcia and the National Defense Agency from Travelers books 6 and 8.) Anyway, I’ll have more to say about The Hunt for the Hijacked Viruses as it gets closer to being released.

Just read Robert Crais’s LA Requiem, the 8^th Elvis Cole/Joe Pike book. I’ve mentioned previously that I particularly like the books in this series that focus on Joe Pike. This one slips in the complicated backstory that explains just how Joe Pike becomes the silent, sunglass-wearing, dangerous and yet loyal man of action we see in the series. An excellent crime thriller.

Last month, I mentioned that I downloaded a copy of Red Means Run by Brad Smith. This is a classic who-done-it, where the hero is wrongly accused of murder and the reader is given the clues as the story progresses. (I was almost at the end before I figured it out.) Set in upstate New York, with detailed characters and crisp dialogue. Well worth a read.

Also read S is for Silence, a Sue Grafton novel featuring her detective Kinsey Millhone, which concerns a cold case of a missing woman from a small town. Was she murdered or did she run away? I’ve read several of Grafton’s alphabet series, and I’m always impressed by the way Grafton handles the details in the story, as well as with Kinsey’s emotional range. A fun read.

LynDee Walker’s Fear No Truth is free today. I’m going to check it out. Here’s the link if you’re interested.

https://www.amazon.com/Fear-No-Truth-LynDee-Walker-ebook/dp/B07KYTLJ6S

That’s all for now. Happy reading!