Victoria Huston

When we were first married, I was reading a Peter De Vries novel and a portion of it was very funny.  I wanted my wife to share in the pleasure and I wanted to see her reaction to an event in the book.  So, I began reading the book aloud to her.  I enjoyed reading to her and she liked my reading and we have been doing it ever since.

When we are reading, sometimes one of us has had enough of a given book and we need to find something else.  That happened last night, when we decided to stop with "Sharp", a self help book. We could spend quite a bit of time searching for and deciding on something else but if we are open to fiction at the time, we may fall back on Victoria Huston.

We have read 5 or so books of hers and they are reliably satisfying for both of us.  Her Loon Lake series includes 19 books, centered on the same characters we have gotten to know.  The fictional town in northern Wisconsin of Loon Lake has a woman sheriff.  A retired dentist in that town is a good alternative coroner when her unreliable and often unavailable official coroner is elsewhere.

If you are looking for a good book, I recommend Victoria Huston's Loon Lake series.