WHAT SHOULD YOU READ THIS WEEKEND?
Any good online gossip columnist worth her millions of hits has a virtual Rolodex full of reliable sources. The title anti-heroine of the graphic novel Ann Tenna has a hotline to an even higher power.
Ann suffers no fools or bad stories as the fashionable head of the allseeing Eyemauler website, blogging and vlogging her way through the A-list New York City scene.
Celebrities and co-workers alike are not big fans of hers personally, but are afraid of the influence and power she wields with from the viewpoint of the hidden camera in her Fendi purse.
Karma catches up to her and Ann ends up on a literal Astral plane to the afterlife — with wings and everything — after a horrific car accident. She then meets her goddess-like ideal self, named Superann, who has a deal for her.
The author has a whip-smart and wry sense of humour and shows a serious bit of creativity.
In the 24th instalment in the Alphabet Mystery series, PI Kinsey Millhone j uggles a missing person case, a strange code left behind by a late colleague, and her landlord Henry’s sudden interest in water preservation, before a dark turn in the book’s back half leads her onto the trail of a serial killer.
Its voice is as winningly candid as ever.
Set in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, this atmospheric novel tracks four characters with connections to two crimes: a body found in a New Orleans hotel and a missing painting by a minor European master.
A restrained and l ovely work, admirably resistant to melodrama, punctuated by moments of sublime insight.
The true story of a prescription pill in Broward County, Florida, and how two brothers made millions pushing painkillers such as OxyContin to addicts from multiple states.
A tale of sun-baked greed that could have sprung from the keyboards of Florida novelists Carl Hiaasen and Tim Dorsey.
Early is his memoir, Black Man in a White Coat, psychiatrist Damon Tweedy forces readers to confront an important lesson he learned as a first-year medical student: Being black can be bad for your health.
It’s fascinating. An engaging, introspective memoir.