The latest Temperance Brennan book by Kathy Reichs was really good. Tempe is contacted by a woman who is a cybersleuth, trying to help find missing persons using online tools. She believes some unidentified remains that Tempe found belong to a young girl whose family claims she isn't even missing. No one has seen the girl in years, but the family says she ran off with some boy and they aren't concerned about her. Tempe is reluctant to dig in at first, but once she does she finds that nothing is as it actually seems. I enjoyed it, plus, bonus, it looks like Tempe and Detective Ryan are moving in together! Not quite marriage, but I'll take it :)
"Fables: Vol. 21" by Bill Willingham was pretty good, too. It seems like he might be gearing up to end the run, he's wrapping up loose ends. Rose Red discovers that the former Mrs. Spratt has been controlling Bigby through her glass ring and takes it from her. She also discovers that she and Snow are locked in a battle they cannot escape: due to a longtime family curse, only one daughter can inherit the power, so they cannot both survive. One has to kill the other. It looks like Rose is going to try to use Bigby to kill his wife. Oh boy...
There is no way I could succinctly summarize Mark Z. Danielewski's latest. I can't even begin to try. It was fascinating, though, and very good, extremely readable, despite its brick like appearance. The book takes place over the course of one rainy day in May, following a group of people from all over the world, although mostly in L.A. At the heart of the book is a young girl named Xanther, who is going with her stepdad to pick up a highly trained dog that should help her with her epilepsy. I'm excited for the next volume, to see how all these seemingly random people's stories tie together.
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