My new favorite author for light reading is Kerry Greenwood. She has two series heroines, Phryne Fisher and Corinna Chapman. We discovered The Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries on NetFlix. Set in the twenties in Australia, the stories are good. Our Miss Fisher is dauntless and charming. The clothes and cars are spectacular. We watched them all, twice. It's been a long winter. I miss Inspector Lewis. I just finished reading the first book in the series, Cocaine Blues. I found it a good match for the t.v. version of that story, which is nice. I can accept the changes.
The second series interested me because the heroine reminded me of the fantasy life of a former friend. Ms Chapman has a wonderful apartment and bakery arrangement, and cats. The proximity of the cats to the food is off-putting to me, I wouldn't eat there, ICK! I would like to live in that apartment building with the stores downstairs, although I can't quite believe the description of the tile work. It's nice to see a woman who is not tiny and has romance in her life. This is set in modern times, and probably that bakery making it financially is as unlikely as the murder sleuthing story, but we don't read these things for money tips.
Ms Greenwood is a nice break from the New York magazine writers I usually end up with. I plan to read at least the second in each series.
