{"id":11056,"date":"2024-07-03T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11056"},"modified":"2024-07-03T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T11:49:18","slug":"heads-up-new-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/?p=11056","title":{"rendered":"Heads Up! New Books"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pull out your credit card. The UK\u2019s The Guardian<\/em> recently published not one, but two, lists of recommended crime thrillers\u2014the best recent ones<\/a>, and new ones for the month<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among the \u201cbest\u201d is Lucy Foley\u2019s The Midnight Feast<\/em> about local traditionalists and unwelcome visitors preparing to celebrate the summer solstice on England\u2019s Dorset Coast. Complete with fire and the dead. More than a little reminiscent of The Serpent Dance<\/a><\/em>, the new book by Sofia Slater about an off-the-rails celebration of the solstice in Cornwall. Fire and the dead. Hmmm. That celestial event was a couple of weeks back, so we\u2019re safe now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The editors also recommend the small book, French Windows<\/a><\/em>, by Antoine Laurain, translated by Louise Rogers Lalaurie\u2014and it\u2019s one I\u2019ve actually read. It\u2019s about the interplay between a psychoanalyst and his patient, a young women photographer who\u2019s stopped taking pictures after seeing a murder. He focuses on what she does<\/em> see, and her subject is the fascinating people she observes through the windows opposite. Are her stories real? Or revelatory? The Guardian<\/em> calls it \u201ca sheer delight,\u201d and I agree!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New ones the editors especially liked include the aforementioned Foley, as well as Stephen King\u2019s collection of short stories, You Like It Darker<\/em>, ranging from the deliciously creepy to mini-novels. Supernatural elements in some, and \u201call are worth a read.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They also like Will Dean\u2019s, The Chamber<\/em>, set in the claustrophobic environment of a deep-sea-diving chamber. When the crew starts to die, you\u2019ll be hard-pressed not to think of 2001: A Space Odyssey. <\/em>It might be hard to step into the close confines of an elevator again after reading this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pull out your credit card. The UK\u2019s The Guardian recently published not one, but two, lists of recommended crime thrillers\u2014the best recent ones, and new ones for the month. Among the \u201cbest\u201d is Lucy Foley\u2019s The Midnight Feast about local … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"A few brand new crime and mystery books to consider for your summer reading. Stephen King short stories to help you stay chilled on a hot day. Enjoy!","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,40,311,126,120,66],"tags":[2205],"class_list":["post-11056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","category-fiction","category-novel","category-reading-2","category-short-story","category-suspense","tag-midsomer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2Sk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11058,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11056\/revisions\/11058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}