Pete Davies.
About the 1918 cataclysmic influenza
Pandemic.

100 years ago. In 1918, this flu killed up to 40 million people across the planet. From the remotest villages in Arctic climates to crowded U.S. cities to the battlefields of Europe, there were plague houses in which whole families lay sick or dead. In the United States it killed more Americans than all the wars fought in the twentieth century put together. The disease did not discriminate. It took whom it pleased. It was a flu unlike any that the world had encountered before or that has come along since. It remains a mystery why the 1918 outbreak was so devastating. As far as the next pandemic is concerned, scientists agree: It's not a question of if, but when.

People dying within hours...
you wouldn't have a chance.

by John M. Barry, and that was excellent.

Prayers for Rain this time.

My husband likes Sandford.

That sounds intense. About a a depraved stalker who carefully targeted Karen and slowly, methodically, exploited her every weakness, stripped away all that mattered to her, and then watched her self-destruct. Now, as investigators begin a psychological battle against a master sadist the law can't touch, they discover he's starting to learn their weaknesses, their loves -- and he's determined to tear their world apart.

Sandford has SO many series to choose from. So far the Prey series has 27 books and Virgil Flowers, 10. Decisions, decisions.

I was sad when he died, but he left a lot of good books.

I really enjoy his writing.

and Marcel Proust, a brief biography by Edmund White. i hadn't read Foundation. I'm not a big Asimov fan but I think this is his best book. i've made a couple of unsuccessful attempts to read Proust but Chatwin's book inspired me to give it another go. I thought maybe if I sneak up on him I'll have better luck so I'm starting with a short, reader friendly biography.

read Foundation someday as it's considered one of the greatest sci fi stories ever.

Good luck with Proust. Sneaking up on him sounds like a good plan.

Really liked the first bit of Bonfire I've read. Very compelling narrator.

The Goldfinch is probably going to go slowly since it's my "at home" read, but I like what I've read so far. Really a compelling narrative.

about a woman who spent two years telling people her husband was a raging alcoholic who would beat her, threaten her and her sons' lives, and that she was too terrified to leave him. Then she went with him on a camping trip and murdered him. Alas, that woman only had to serve 12 years in jail.

Ann Rule's books are always good.

Now it's back to The Berlin Project by Gregory Benford.