Spoiler Alert (if you read Karin Slaughter or Tami Hoag....you know who you are, so stop here!)

I just finished the last Karin Slaughter paperback.

I'm heartbroken. She killed off a major character whom we've all come to know and love despite their many faults. Not in a soap opera, oh my god they can come back in the next novel kind of way, but in a holy shit, they-really-died-kind of way.

But...in a positive note, were I Ms. Slaughter, there is an excellent plot hook buried in the interaction between said dead character and said dead character's spouse that just screams to be developed in the next novel.

The Tami Hoad was one of those modern day/olden day story in a story novels. I like her regular novels about the forensic pathologist and the detective. Chick crime novels. Like Scarpetta but not as overblown as those have become in recent years.

Now I'm onto more serious literature. I'll let you know how those turn out.