TGIF

Sorry for missing yesterday. I've been fighting some kind of flu thing all week and I just did the essentials last night then went to bed. I'm hoping that catching up on rest will do the trick and make this go away.

I've very glad it's Friday. I made it through the week at work, catching up on the things that piled up while I was gone last week. But I have so much to do this weekend... I HAVE TO work on my newsletter, I'm way behind. I need to do the usual cleaning because it didn't get done last weekend. Steve and I would like to go see RED sometime this weekend.

I haven't done much reading at all in over a week but I think I'm back to THE SHIMMERING BLOND SISTER by David Handler. This is 7th of 7 in series featuring Mitch Berger, a New York film critic, and Desiree “Des” Mitry, a black police detective, in Dorset, Connecticut. Here's a description:

Back when Mitch was a chubby thirteen-year-old living in Stuyvesant Town, Beth Breslauer, a lovely blond single mother, lived across the hall with her son, Kenny. These days, she’s a wealthy widow who owns a condominium in the Captain Chadwick House, the Dorset Historic District’s most exclusive condo complex. Kenny is engaged to marry Mitch’s yoga teacher, Kimberly Farrell. Kimberly’s parents are Beth’s neighbors. They are also social pariahs. Her father was one of the Wall Street power brokers responsible for the sub-prime home loan meltdown and her mother is praying that Kimberly’s elaborate engagement party will endear them to their lost friends. Meanwhile, Augie Donatelli, a retired police detective who manages the Captain Chadwick House, is positive he’s figured out the identity of the infamous Dorset Flasher, an elusive, ski-masked figure who has been terrorizing wealthy widows after dark. He also believes that Beth is the proud descendent of a long line of professional thieves. He demands that Des do something about it, but Des dismisses his charges as the wild rants of a lonely, bitter drunkard, which is rather unfortunate---because when Augie turns up dead, Des is included in the round-up of suspects. That leaves it up to Mitch to find out what really happened, even though it means he’ll have to find out more about the people in his life than he ever wanted to.

It was published October 2010 and has 256 pages. I'm reading it on the Kindle.

Much love,

PK the Bookeemonster