9.  Genetic Genealogy in Practice, by Blaine T. Bettinger and Debbie Parker Wayne

This is the second time I checked this book out, and it is a slight exaggeration to say I read it again. More honest is that I skimmed it.  This is a book one could study. In fact, it has questions at the end of each chapter for just that.  It did not have what I was looking for, but I did learn one thing new this time through about how one DNA company chooses which relative matches to show. I'm ready for the next level of genealogy understanding, but what I find is often either a repeat of what I already know or so complex I glaze over.  

10.  Stranger Diaries, by Kelly Griffiths

This is for one of my book clubs.  I enjoyed it, although I wouldn't have picked it for myself from the descriptions.  I like the women characters a lot.  I wasn't feeling tip-top, and used that as an excuse to read it straight through. The first character is a teacher who is writing a book. I don't get the English school jargon, like "sixth form" but I could have looked it up. Anyway, she is divorced and has a daughter, a remarried ex, friends, and a job situation that all seem reasonable. The who done it stuff makes as much sense as any of them do.  I think the author is planning to continue with the detective, but I liked the sort of victim better. Probably I won't track down a second book if it is out.

11.  The Code, by G.B. Joyce

We have been enjoying watching "Private Eyes" on television, on one of the rerun stations.  It is a fluffy mystery series, loosely based on this book.  I checked the book out of the library.  There are two or three others in the series.  It is kind of a guy's book, whatever the male version is of chick lit.  It is sharp and funny, what some other newspaper writer I won't mention shoots for and misses.  The romance that doesn't quite make sense in the television program is not in the book, and quite a few details of the situation don't match.  The male protagonist still comes through as something of the same clever, handsome, smart-alec fellow who is hard on himself. The book version guy is not celibate, as the t.v. guy appears to be. There's a lot more hockey in the book, and some problem drinking.Still, it's another nice piece of escape fiction, and I'll probably look for the next one.