Seattle Times Best Books

Gleaned from the 14 December 2014 Seattle Times, books to read:

• Let Me Be Frank With You, by Richard Ford
• The Stories of Jane Gardam
• The Peripheral, by William Gibson (requested from PCL)
• The Museum of Extraordinary Things,  by Alice Hoffman
• Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
• The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters (M. requested from PCL)
• Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, by Bryan Stevenson (non-fiction, by a lawyer who defends the most hopeless of criminals) 

From the Crime Fiction List: 

• Destroyer Angel,  by Nevada Barr
• Love Story, With Murders,  by Harry Bingham
• Jack of Spies, by David Downing
• Darkness, Darkness,by John Harvey (this is described as the last in a series about a detective named Charlie Resnick, in Nottingham -- might be good to read some of the earlier ones in the series)
• Day of Atonement, by David Liss (author of Conspiracy of Paper,  read and entered recently in here. The main character is one Sebastian Fox, a young, Jewish "thief taker." This reminds me of things in Conspiracy.)
• Red Joan, by Jennie Rooney