I recently finished reading A Crossword to Die For by Nero Blanc and gave it a B grade. In this mystery, a crossword editor suspects that her father, who died from a heart attack on his way to visit her, was in fact murdered, so she and her PI husband investigate his death. The story leaned a little too heavily on certain red herrings, but it kept my interest for the duration, which is one of the most important things when it comes to murder mysteries. The book contained six crosswords, some of which provided hints regarding the mystery, but I was disinclined to stop reading long enough to solve the puzzles and also unwilling to write in the book. So, I skipped all but one of them, which kinda defeated the purpose of the crossword gimmick. Whatever. I like reading, and I like crosswords, but I don’t like them together.
Currently reading: This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, Taran Wanderer by Lloyd Alexander (Book 4 in the Chronicles of Prydain), Aimless Love by Billy Collins, and Le petit fantôme by Emma Tennant (traduit de l’anglais par Lan du Chastel)