Homer and Langley by E.L. Doctorow was wondrful-and sad. It's based on a true story of two brothers in NY who start out as very privileged kids in an upper-crust Fifth Ave home across from Central Park. They end up, very sadly, as home-bound, blind, paranoid, hoarders. This book is the biographical imagining of how that happened. Poignantly, beautifully written.

Another Linda Fairstein-The Bone Vault. I am enjoying her descriptions of how things work in the D.A.'s office of New York's sex crimes unit. She obviously writes from experience. However, I'm still having trouble with the depiction of her personal life.

Also, Cool in Tucson by Elizabeth Gunn. This series follows Tucson police detective Sarah Burke. She's smart and ambitious and I'm liking the character. I had read the next one in the series and read this one to fill in some gaps. Her personal life is difficult. She's divorced, her sister is an addicted single mother, her mom is getting older, and she loves her niece and worries about the best way to help and protect her from her mother.