I’m a sucker for these “cozy mysteries”. The premise is simple: a usually small-town local business owner, going about their daily life, encounters a dead body. (Most that I’ve read have been female, so I’m going to go with that assumption, but male narrators are welcome!) Sometimes, she’s new to town and sometimes, she’s lived there forever.…

I picked FAKING NORMAL up at a Barnes & Noble in Chicago. I kept picking it up, reading a random bit, putting it down… and then being drawn back to the book to pick it up again. That’s how I pick books – either by the cover (of course I judge books by their covers……