Kaitlyn Dunnett/Kathy Lynn Emerson here. I recently had carpal tunnel surgery that wasn’t entirely successful, since I put it off longer than I should have, so both before and after I’ve been avoiding writing and spending a lot more time reading other people’s books to rest the tingly fingers on my right hand. What follows are some of the novels and nonfiction I wholeheartedly recommend.

Why Longfellow Lied—a book for kids but delightful for adults, too. It tells the real story of both Paul Revere’s ride and Longfellow’s poem.

Murder Most Fowl

all of Deborah Crombie’s series—18 titles

Lindsay Davis’s new Flavia Albia mystery

And here’s what I’m reading now:

Kasey Michaels’ Romney Marsh series of historical romances, a reread. There are seven books in the series and I’m on number five.

Rereading/listening to J. D. Robb’s In Death series from the beginning—I’m up to Survivor in Death (on audio cassette on a Walkman)

an ARC of Maggie Robinson’s latest

Ruth Goodman’s How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England

Happy reading, everyone!

Kathy Lynn Emerson/Kaitlyn Dunnett has had sixty-four books traditionally published and has self published several children’s books and three works of nonfiction. She won the Agatha Award and was an Anthony and Macavity finalist for best mystery nonfiction of 2008 for How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries and was an Agatha Award finalist in 2015 in the best mystery short story category. She was the Malice Domestic Guest of Honor in 2014. Her newest books are Murder, She Edited (the fourth book in the contemporary “Deadly Edits” series, written as Kaitlyn) and, as Kathy, I Kill People for a Living: A Collection of Essays by a Writer of Cozy Mysteries. She maintains websites at www.KaitlynDunnett.com and www.KathyLynnEmerson.com. A third, at A Who’s Who of Tudor Women, is the gateway to over 2300 mini-biographies of sixteenth-century Englishwomen, now available in e-book format.