Manny Rivera Mystery #4

I am really enjoying this series of books. Intriguing mysteries, clean plain prose, beautiful setting, and an admirable Deputy Sheriff, Manny Rivera. Manny Rivera #5 here I come...

My reading arc for 2020 took me from the dark into the shadows. Here are the titles that got me through the gray..

A marvelously incandescent book that sends a ray of human kindness through a very dark period in the history of humanity. One of my top 10 reads for 2020. Read it if you haven't. 

Second book in this trilogy. A series that gets better book by book.

I have really enjoyed all of Ms. Kostova's books. One of the few modern authors who portrayed a vampire as evil and not a romantic anti-hero in her novel "The Historian". I will happily continue reading whatever she writes next.

I am came across this book while I was reading The Familiars by Stacey Halls as part of my Bewitching Reads category. The book takes a completely different look at the Pendle Witch Trials-- through the eyes of a different historical character. These books were totally different reads but I will say I did prefer this book.

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I don't often read "classics" but when I do I hope to always find gems such as this one. Very readable for a "masterpiece". Wallace Stegner was a contemporary of Avis Devoto and was great friends with her husband. I mention this because I love when my categories and book choices serendipitously collide. At the beginning of 2020 as I finished my reads for the category "To the Letter" I read As Always, Julia which is a collection of letters between Julia Child and Avis Devoto. I highly recommend both of these books for separate reasons.