Get Swept Away by Fallen

Last week I published a blog post on Camp Nanowrimo, which is going on right now. All the best to my writerly friends who are participating in this worldwide event. Writing can be lonely, difficult business, and those who are doing is deserve our support.

As far as my Nano goes, I just crossed 50K, so have officially met my challenge, but will continue until I am finished the first draft of Posed for Death.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme. Read the rules and more teasers at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along.

Fallen, by Linda Castillo is book #13 in the Kate Burkholder series. I always enjoy these mysteries with a little taste of Amish country, with tidbits about their culture and phrases of Pennsylvania Dutch sprinkled throughout. Kate does a good job of tracking down the killers with her special combination of brains, compassion, and respect for the community that she chose not to be a part of, instead pursuing a career in law enforcement. Her significant other, John Tomasetti work well together. I enjoy a book where the woman and the man are on equal footing and don’t have a lot of conflict or competitiveness over cases. (Though, of course, I also enjoy books where there is some conflict between the couple as well. Since all couples have conflict of some kind.)

I’m no stranger to violence of the unspeakable things human beings are capable of doing to each other.

Linda Castillo, Fallen