Honorable Mentions ...

I have been reading A LOT lately. That's the one good thing about recuperating from surgery ... you don't have to feel guilty about spending too much time on the couch with a book in your hands.

If you haven't read Mrs. Pollifax you really should! I love to read one of these in between a more difficult book because they are so easy and entertaining. I call them Jessica Fletcher from Murder, She Wrote meets James Bond. They are about a woman who finds herself widowed, bored with garden clubs, and wanting to try something she always thought she would be good at ... being a spy. So she goes to the CIA and applies for a job. Start with "The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax".

I also really like the Stephanie Plum books by Janet Evanovich. They are about a mostly average kind of woman who finds herself out of a job and broke. She turns to her cousin to give her a job ... as a bounty hunter. She thinks it might be easy money but always ends up over her head. They are definitely not a book you would find at Deseret Book, I would say PG-13 kind of material, so if you don't like a good sexual inuendo now and again then they're not for you. But I really find then entertaining and has a woman as the protagonist to boot.

"Fancy Pants" by Cathie Marie Hake ... started off really cute. Turned into predictable but OK. Ended with disjointed and not interesting at all.