In this book by Alexander McCall Smith, Isabel Dalhousie is intent as intent in satisfying her curiosity about an “accident” she witnessed in happenstance. Add meanderings about Philosophy, intrigue and dashes of suspense to this central plot and you get “The Sunday Philosophy Club” which I found it about as interesting as a lecture on Platonic epistemology on a searing summer afternoon. Perhaps it wasn’t the best Alexander Smith novel for me to start with.

How can death be so lovely?

A young woman is brutally murdered as she goes home from school and Alice Sebold’s “The Lovely Bones” lets us in on the life that Susie Salmon leaves behind. One of the more interesting books revolving around family dramas that I’ve read recently, this book has that added drive of mystery in it and just the right kind of drama that let’s you sink in for pages on end. If there is something that this book lacks though. It would probably be closure.