My Summer Reading List

I'm always surprised at other people's reading lists, particularly those published in The Globe and Mail which read like a marketing person's Canlit or classics list. I'm not going to even pretend to read War and Peace or attempt to get through The Golden Bowl. Even the movie was a slog (the latter, not the former) and I always thought Henry James was in dire need of a good editor.
So here's my list and no surprise, it's mainly mysteries.
Camille Lackberg's The Drowning, which I grabbed as soon as I saw it was out. The blockbuster ending leaves the reader salivating for next Spring's follow-up, The Lighthouse.
Helen Tursten's Night Rounds made me very happy to see her back on Canadian bookstore shelves. Readers discovering the Inspector Irene Huss series for the first time will want to search out The Torso and The Glass Devil.
Tana French's Broken Harbour. I have mixed feelings about this author--though The Likeness was absolutely fantastic, I just couldn't get into her last book, Faithful Place. So maybe that's another to add to my reading list.
Ake Edwardson's Sail of Stone and Jo Nesbo's  Phantom because I love the Scandinavians.  
Then there's always the books I'd happily reread like Ami McKay's The Virgin Cure and The Crimson Petal and the White by Michel Faber ( now out in an excellent Masterpiece Theatre adaptation). Since Case Histories came out on DVD, I think I'd reread Kate Atkinson's Jackson Brodie mysteries because when I first read them, I never thought of them as mysteries. 
And though I'm not tempted at all by any Shades of Grey, I admit my guilty pleasure is men in armour, ergo George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones and all the rest of the series because I can't wait for HBO.

What more could you want than a dog, a book and a blog?