I put the first book of the Flavia de Luce series on hold. It will take a couple weeks before I have it.
Just finished The Sentence by Louise Erdich. I love the author but just wasn't ready for this book. The short blurb says it's about a ghost in a bookstore. The longer form is the bookstore is in Minneapolis and the year is 2020. Had a lot more about George Floyd and Covid than I was prepared for -- just like I couldn't really handle end of the world by plague stores very well during the worst of Covid. Still a good book...
Another less than satisfactory for me (and I think especially in audio) was Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincoln_in_the_Bardo
On the cozier mystery side of things, a couple more books in Paige Shelton's Alaska Wild series were recently obtained by my library. An author from Missouri escapes a kidnapper and hides in a small town in SE Alaska...
https://us.macmillan.com/series/alaskawild
The publisher blurb mentions "fans of Vicki Delany's Molly Smith books" will enjoy it. I really like Vick Delaney's earlier (Constable Molly) books and would not consider them cozy. Now she is churning out a lot of perfectly acceptable cozy mysteries but I'm not as thrilled with them. Sort of like I feel in fantasy there is a big quality gap between (the always prolific) early Piers Anthony and more recent books.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/661...le-molly-smith
I am continuing to enjoy the antics of Sheriff Longmire as well as the Chet and Bernie dog/human detective duo...