Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All - Jonas Jonnasson

This book was found at a dollar store and it looked interesting so I picked it up and read it on two flights for a work trip. It was an entertaining novel and kept me quite content on the plane, which is as good of a recommendation as I can make for it. I liked the characters and how the story changed them (or didn't, as the case may be). I'd definitely read other books by this author.

The Girl on the Velvet Swing - Simon Baatz

Evelyn Nesbit is a name I have run across while researching my vaudeville-era obsession, so when I ran across this book in the library, subtitled "Sex, Murder, and Madness at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century," I had to pick it up. The crime central to this book isn't well known today but at the time it was the scandal on every front page. This book is really well researched and well written and the story is bizarrely tragic and doesn't quite end how one might expect. This book is well worth a read.