The Disaster Tourist by Yun Ko-eun

Translated by :Lizzie Buehler  It is rare for the last chapter(s) of a book to change my mind positively. I have had moments where I get keyed up for a finale that never comes or is a poor shadow of what it could have been. This was a different kind of switch. I was halfway…

Jane Darrowfield, Professional Busybody by Barbara Ross

I succumbed, once again to try out a new 'cozy mystery' series. This time, luck was by my side, and this particular first book is promising. We have an amateur sleuth, Jane Darrowfield, who sees her preoccupation in terms of her age and labels it in a self-deprecating manner. We are given a birds-eye view…