Librairie Decitre Ecully

Atkinson is a treasure, I dare you to fight me on this.
Her short stories have just the right amount of weird, without being creepy. But most of all, her characters - even the ones we barely cross paths with, those whose names we just learned and whom are gone a few lines after that - those characters are very real and memorable.
Plus, each story links with the next, just a little bit, just enough to make you smile with recognition.

You haven't read the Bill Hodgers ? That's okay, I haven't either. This was still great fun.
Stephen King has written a good old thriller, with a private detective, horrendous villains, and tiny clues, and it hits the spot.
The bad guys really are bad, in the best way, and we see them from the start, which makes us want the detective to win even more.
It may not be the very best writing, but it is a hell of a page turner, and the perfect read for a holiday.

Oh this is a fun book right there. It’s like Wild: a woman goes to the desert to figure some things out about her life (and in this case, her father’s probable demise), it doesn’t sound fun, it sounds bleak and depressing. But it’s fun, because our narrator is quirky and very human. She likes the certainty of the expected, she talks to cacti and stones, she gets mad for no reason and understands things a little too late. It is a delight to read.