What are you reading the week of April 7, 2013?
The Blue Corn Murders by Nancy Pickard based on Virginia Rich "Mrs Potter" series2013 book #38
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It does not seem to be that well known, although I believe it has stayed in print ever since it was first published.
Let me know how you like it and if you want any more book suggestions from me. 
as the favorite book no one ever heard of
I agree with you--not a name you hear a lot, but when I start talking about it, there's always someone that pipes up "Oh, I loved that book." Has ended up on some top 100 lists, too. Predictably SF, but the one that surprised was a "100 Favorite Beach Reads" from a couple of years ago.
In science fiction, I've been recommending "The Doomsday Book" by Connie Willis for years now. Also, most anything by Robert Charles Wilson and Robert Sawyer. They're Canadians, and so don't seem to write as much by formula as a lot of Americans. Wilson's early books had gone out of print, but I see they're back. Hooray! His novel "A Bridge of Years" is one I love to recommend. Man buys an abandoned home and discovers that in the basement there's a walled-up tunnel that leads to NYC 1962. Why that tunnel exists, and who is responsible for it make up the bulk of the novel. I like everything of his. For me Sawyer is a little bit hit or miss, but I will still go ahead and pick up anything of his. Oh, and I've actually met both men at different science fiction events. They're both very nice in person.
In non s-f, another Canadian author I'm partial to is Andrew Pyper. "Lost Girls" which I think is his first novel is absolutely amazing. The language is lyrical, and I kept on reading parts out loud to people, which is something I almost never do. I need to get around to re-reading it soon. I've also read "The Wildfire Season" by him and liked it. He's got other books out there but I haven't ready any of them yet.
I will also recommend Stewart O'Nan as an author. I first discovered him with "The Circus Fire" which is about the Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey fire on July 6, 1944. Chances are you've heard of this fire because of the mystery of the one unidentified girl, known forever as Little Miss 1565. I happen to be oddly obsessed by books about fires, and this was a very, very good one. But O'Nan is better known as a novelist. So far everything I've read of his has been more than worth it. He writes novels about ordinary people living out ordinary lives. "Last Night at the Lobster" is about the final day and night of a Red Lobster Restaurant. "Emily Alone" is about an 80 year old widow who lives in a Pittsburgh suburb, and whose life is defined by the limitations of age. "The Good Wife" (one of my all time favorite novels ever) is about a woman whose husband is a burgler, unbeknownst to her. A woman is killed during a burglary, and he is sentenced to 25 years to life. She's pregnant with there first child, and the novel is about her building a life for her and her son while maintaining as best she can the connection to her husband in jail. There are no big dramatic moments (there never are in O'Nan's novels) just the day by day, month by month, and year by year unrolling of a lifetime.
Another favorite author of mine is Thomas Mallon. "Henry and Clara" is a book I've actually gotten total strangers to buy when I'm in bookstores. It's about the young couple who went to the theater that night with President and Mrs. Lincoln. Bet you never heard of them, right? They actually grew up as step-brother and step-sister from about the time they were ten and twelve, when his widowed mother married her widowed father. The father was a U.S. Senator, so they were always around political power. What eventually happened to them, how their entire life stories played out is incredible. I read the last twenty pages or so with my mouth dropped open, because it was so astonishing. Everything I've read by Mallon is good.
When you need more suggestions just let me know.
I want to read them all.....one of these days. The authors are now on my list or authors to check out.
Thanks.
I really ought to work in a good bookstore.
I really have grabbed total strangers and persuaded them to buy a particular book I think they'll like.
I'm also trying to write. If I'm ever published, I hope people grab total strangers and say, "Oh! You must read this book by SheilaT!"
I dont' know if you've read other books by Stephenson but here's my totally unsolicited opinions on some of them. 
The Baroque Cycle is also fantastic IMHO.
Anathem is really good although I found it sometimes dwelled a little long on the philosophical debates.
Reamde is bit more on the conventional techno-thriller side of things, all in all fun but not as original as his other books.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Baroque_Cycle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reamde
