Meredith Monday Schwartz

Right.

Yeah, so you might want to do a downstairs Kindle and then that can go places with you and you don't have to have that feeling of worry like, what if I don't have it at nighttime when I need it?

All right.

Well, I have a great melange of books today.

I've got a book that is squarely in my wheelhouse.

I've got another memoir because who am I anyway?

And I have a work of fantasies.

So the first one is The Bookseller by Tim Sullivan.

Have you started reading Tim Sullivan?

I feel like lots of people are reading him all of a sudden.

Possibly.

So if you like a great detective series with a really, really one of a kind, like a very distinctive protagonist, then I think this series might really work for you.

So

Here's the setup of the bookseller.

When a rare bookseller is discovered dead in his Bristol shop, surrounded by first editions and a huge amount of blood, autistic detective George Cross catches the case.

Cross is meticulous to the point of infuriating his colleagues, but his conviction rate is the best in the force precisely because he goes by cold, hard facts and nothing else.

This time, he is distracted by a crisis in his personal life that has thrown his carefully ordered world into chaos, forcing him to rely on others in ways that are deeply uncomfortable to poor D.S.

Cross.

But he persists, and thankfully so, because murder is afoot.

All right, if you are like me, I get a little thrill walking into a very old, rare bookshop, right?