This Sunday, the Fourth of July, will also be Independence Day in the United States. While I often spend national holidays working, this one—coming at a time when much of the country is reopening after the pandemic nightmare—will find me communing with family. COVID-19 caused too much fracturing of relationship bonds, and now is the time to start rebuilding those, in whatever manners are possible.
Which is not to say that I won’t be found off in a corner somewhere on Sunday, reading a book between visits with relatives.
That’s just the way I am.
If you, too, are planning to take occasional reading escapes from the July 4 festivities, and need suggestions of works you might tackle, look over Janet Rudolph’s list of more than 80 crime and mystery novels linked in some fashion to this holiday. Among the choices: The Fourth of July Wake, by Harold Adams; Yankee Doodle Dead, by Carolyn Hart; Red, White, and Blue Murder, by Bill Crider; Knee High by the Fourth of July, by Jess Lourey; King Suckerman, by George P. Pelecanos; and Firecrackered, by Patricia Rockwell.
Enjoy a bit of peace and companionship on Sunday, everyone!
Friday, July 02, 2021
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