What are you reading the week of April 7, 2013?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

2. Bedside book: "Those Who Love Night" by Wessel Ebersohn

Second in a series about a black woman attorney in post-apartheid South Africa. Much of her extended family was killed during the anti-apartheid struggle, and she is surprised to receive a phone call saying that a cousin she never knew existed is a political prisoner in Zimbabwe.

Purse book: "Dead Man's Footsteps" by Peter James, one of my newer favorite mystery writer. I'm not very far into it, but so far, there are four plots: 1) A failed scheming-and-dreaming Englishman is in New York on September 11, 2001, and is rushing to make an appointment in the World Trade Center, 2) A woman's skeleton is found in a disused sewer and draining pipe; 3) A young woman returns to her hometown but hides her presence from everyone except her mother. However, she is in danger of being exposed because of a newspaper reporter, 4) A young couple swimming in a pond in Australia find a sunken car with a body in the trunk. I'm waiting to see how it all comes together.