Well, I made it to the end of Sleeping Murder a while ago. Life has gotten in the way and I've not really had any motivation to get back here, which is lame.
In the end of the book, as is bound to happen, there's a moment when Gwenda realizes exactly who it was that she saw with Helen in the hallway all those years ago. More people have died in order for this person to try to keep getting away with having killed his sister... That's right! It was the doctor, Helen's own older brother who took care of her, Dr. James Kennedy. It turns out all those years ago, it was HIM that Helen was trying to get away from!
Once I was finished reading the book, I had chosen another already, Crooked House, but I never picked it up. Instead a few weeks ago, I found an interesting book at Walmart. It's called The Cousins by Karen McManus. The cover was what drew me to the book in the first place. I read the flaps inside and my brain instantly went to grandma calls the grandkids home and proceeds to knock them off one by one until only one is left and that's the one that gets to inherit her fortune.
That is NOT what happened in the book. At the end I was so surprised by what had happened, but it all made sense, which is fantastic. I read the book fairly quickly, when you think about the fact that I was sneaking reading it at work. I'm just kidding. I do occasionally have an assignment at work that allows me time to read, so I wasn't REALLY sneaking, it just feels that way sometimes.
The Cousins follows three young adults, who are sent to the resort home that their parents grew up in. The parents have basically been disowned by their mother receiving an ominous, "They know what they did," kind of message years before they'd had their children. The parents basically force their kids to go to this island to hopefully get un-disinherited by spending time with their grandmother whom they've never met. It really is a wild ride with twists and turns and a helluva surprise ending.
I would highly recommend this book to read.
Now, onto the next choice book... I WAS going to read The Crooked House, I promise. I really intended for that to be the next book I took off my shelf. I downloaded a bunch of Christie novels to my Kindle, but it's a device and I'm not really allowed to bring mobile devices to work and use them, so I went and grabbed a book off the shelf and ended up with The Body in the Library, which so far is hilarious.
That sounds morbid, doesn't it? Really, though, I was giggling reading the first few pages of the book, when Mrs. Dolly Bantry is dreaming about getting her first place prize from the vicar and his wife strolling around the church in her bathing suit. Then Mary comes in and lets Col. and Mrs. Bantry know there's a body in the library.
Neither of them understand what the hell is going on, as they're both still mostly asleep. Mrs. Bantry wakes up Col. Bantry only to realize he's really talking to her in his sleep.
Later we find out that the body in the library is Ruby Keene, who works at The Majestic. The management of the Majestic didn't call the police and neither did Ruby's cousin Josie, who works with her at the hotel. No, the police were notified that the girl was missing by Mr. Conway Jefferson, who lost his legs in a terrible plane accident that killed his family save his son in law and daughter in law.
This is as far as I've gotten so far, as I only just started the book yesterday. It's a great book and I really want to keep reading on it, obviously, but work and HOMEWORK! Eww! Just kidding, I'm behind on a bunch of assignments and a test so I have to get that taken care of and I have at least 3 more chapters before I get to the test. They are tedious! So it's taking me a long time to get them done because I'd rather soak paper cuts in salty lemon juice than sit here and type up sentences and make tables with headers and no borders for hours. Baby steps! An hour a day everyday for the rest of the week and I should be caught up. This is supposed to be my hour for today, but you can see, it's not working out well for that.
I'd really better get to it, though. So off I go. Enjoy your day and happy reading!
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