>I’m really enjoying Booklist‘s May 1 Mystery Showcase issue, especially editor Bill Ott’s “A Hard-Boiled Gazetteer to Scandinavia,” which surveys the major Nordic crime novels that have made their way to our shores, a great summer-reading list. We already know about Norway’s penchant for this kind of thing.


>Now I want a steamy, icky-mucky, super creepy, tropical mystery to warm me up!