A bit of summer escape-ism,  just sheer entertainment:

Louise Penny: The Nature of the Beast, 9781250022103, Minotaur Books, Macmillian,

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Louise Penny always delivers with her Canadian setting with retired Chief Inspector Amande Gamache in Three Pine. This one however, a bit too drawn out for my taste, 376 pages of a tightly woven plot based on a real life story of George Bull, a particular ruthless arms dealer and engineer.

Margaret Coel: Killing Custer, 9780425264645, Berkeley Crime, Penguin USA, paperback

Since Tony Hillerman passed away, Margaret Coel provides for my arm chair trip to Native American territory. Coel's is Arapaho Wind River country in Wyomning with Vicky Holden, Arapaho lawyer and Father John O’ Mailey  as very likeable chief protagonists. A reenactment of Custer's killing at Little Big Horn sees history repeating itself with the impersonator of Custer shot dead from within a group of young Arapaho horsemen. 

For more serious reading, prize winning Native American author  Louis Edrich “La Rose” will be next……