What Fiction are you reading this week, April 30, 2023?

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30. "In Crime" Kat Makris #4

Back in Greece with Kat Makris and her hilarious gangster family.

Heir to Greece’s biggest crime family Kat Makris’ life is scheduled to explode when she’s catapulted into a counterfeiter’s deadly path, in this hilarious fourth installment of the Greek Mafia series.

After a covert attempt to buy Marika a pregnancy test fails, everyone in Greece wants to know who is the father of Kat’s baby? If a rampant case of mistaken pregnancy isn’t bad enough, an encounter with Greece's National Intelligence Agency turns sour fast, and soon Kat finds herself stuck in Naples, Italy, with a probably-pregnant Marika and a crime lord’s nephew for company. No money. No food. Working cellphone? Fuggedaboutit. What they do have is a gun, thanks to their new—and suspect—guardian angel, a hobo with urinary issues and what used to be a very nice coat.

There’s no way out of Naples; not in their condition. Not unless Kat can scrounge up some intelligence—which is even more difficult than it sounds, given the company she's keeping—for the NIS. Unfortunately the way out involves a deadly game of cops, forgers, and bakers.

Hot cop Detective Nikos Melas can't save her, and the equally tasty, far more deadly Xander is busy watching over Grandma, who is in the hospital after a table-dancing incident gone awry. Which leaves Kat on her own, more or less, to strike a deal with Mario Fontana, a criminal with Camorra connections ... and a professional relationship with Kat's missing father.

I love these books! The author has such a great sense of humor and a real skill in shaping her characters. It was a perfect read for the plane trip out to Phoenix.


Currently, I am reading "Moscow Sky" A Dak Harper thriller
This is #5 in the Relic Runner series by Ernest Dempsey.

When the Russian military invaded Ukraine, the world watched from the sidelines as shells rained down on homes, schools, businesses, and factories. But what the media didn't show us was a sinister plot carried out by a rogue Russian unit.

In the frigid chill of winter, while the Russian army barreled into Kyiv, an elite band of fighters had a different target in mind. Led by a notorious Colonel, the rogue unit broke into the Ukrainian Museum of National History, and took every valuable artifact connecting the country to its Scythian past.

Enter Dak Harper.

On the run, both hunter and hunted. He learns of the museum theft. But this is one mission he can't handle on his own. With more danger than he's ever faced, his life isn't the only one that hangs in the balance.

From the streets of Kyiv to the mountains of Romania, and into the hills of Hungary, Dak must use every contact he can muster to track down the Russian thieves.

But the Russians aren't the only enemy he must face when Dak's past comes full circle.

Dempsey can really weave a good thriller! I am enjoying it.