Well I've completed yet another Kathy Reichs -- Monday Mourning. Apart from this I finished Grave Secrets and Bare Bones bringing the total count to 7. I am on my 8th Kathy Reichs novel.
I've realised that the secret sometimes to good reading doesn't just lie in the reader - the author's style matters to a great extent. Sometimes Rushdie e.g. is just so amazing in his prose that you take an hour to finish a chapter, to incorporate all the wit that he infuses into his text. Amitav Ghosh is also like that. And so is Pico Iyer, whose book, Abandon, remains my most favourite romance novel of all time. I seriously recommend this book to anyone and everyone. The book is almost like falling in love.... I read it when I was in training in Mussoorie, next to the heater, curled up in my blanket... trying to save myself from the biting cold... I could not put this book down.
Monday Mourning was in keeping with my morbid theme of death and crime investigation, which is reflected in my favourite television shows - CSI, Criminal Minds... There's just something about a good mystery that I love. I used to be a great fan of Law and Order as well. It's a good thing my line of work involves investigation!
So Temperance Brennan stumbles upon the modus operandi of the killer and unravels the mystery of the bones found in the basement of the pizza parlour. Not for the faint hearted I might add. Her love interest, Detective Ryan, gets more serious... all in all a good beach read. I finished it in a little over three hours.
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