The Kari AnnAlysis

On My Bookshelf is a weekly meme that was started as In My Mailbox by Kristi at The Story Siren. I just changed the title a little bit to match my reading tastes. I have an itty bitty mailbox and have things sent to work, so they aren’t technically given to me in my mailbox. I’m a little strange, I know! Anyway, the meme is to show the goodies you’ve gotten the previous week, whether you buy them, win them, borrow them, or someone sends them to you for review.

I normally download or get a book or two a week. This week, I went a little overboard. I am leaving for NYC on Thursday evening and although I know I won’t be sitting around much with time to read, I always like to go prepared, so I downloaded several books to my Nook from NetGalley in case I need to read. It is a long drive…..

If you’d liked to read the Goodreads.com summary of each of the books above, just click on the book cover. I am really excited about all of these and have already started I’ve Got Your Number. I’ve never met a Sophie Kinsella book I didn’t love.

I also got a book for review this week. My review for Dead Tease will be up on March 16. Until then, here’s a preview:

A hot August afternoon and Midwest Clinic CEO John McNeil has been working late. Working on his latest conquest, that is. Jen Williams is twenty-six, in charge of graphics for the hospital’s PR division–and quite attractive in a healthy, athletic kind of way. She is quick to laugh and a little too quick to fall for guys. She is no virgin. And she is one of three women–including his wife–intimately familiar with McNeil.

When Jen’s youthful body is found with a single stab wound through the heart, suspicion falls on both McNeil’s wife, who insists she is being stalked, and the striking hospital physician with whom he had just ended an affair. Pressure to find the killer falls on Loon Lake Police Chief Lewellyn “Lew” Ferris and Dr. Paul “Doc” Osborne, the retired dentist and forensic dental expert whom she has deputized to help with the investigation–when they are not taking a break for fishing and other personal pursuits. When the mayor demands Lew take early retirement–and Doc has to babysit his teenage granddaughter who won’t stop texting–the frustrations mount.

Desperate for a few hours off–and persuaded by Ray Pradt (a fishing guide who wears a stuffed trout on his head, so they should have known better)–to try fly fishing from kayaks, Doc and Lew find themselves in life-and-death straits on the river. This leads to an unexpected and macabre discovery that just may break the case.

Did you get any good reads this week that you can’t wait to crack open??