What Fiction are you reading this week, July 14, 2024?

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30. currently (almost finished) Media Justice by Dennis Karstens (third in series)

Late to the party this week; too much going on what with all the election stuff
and a long drawn out illness (ultimately resulting in death) in my family which has thrown us for a loop. For the past three weeks my anxiety level has been in the stratosphere.

So the book: An adorable—and photogenic—two-year-old girl is kidnapped, and, when her remains are found, her twenty-two-year-old widowed mother Brittany is arrested for her murder. But before she can even be charged, she’s been tried and convicted by the media., at the center of which is Melinda Pace, a cynical, mostly-functioning alcoholic Minneapolis television personality with a “legal news” show called The Court Reporter. Not even in the alternative universe of television news could she be described as a reporter, since she makes no attempt at or pretense of presenting the truth, or even the facts. She does do a great job of producing through-the-roof ratings and whipping the public into a frenzy—with tragic consequences.

Marc is brought into the case early on, before it’s clear it will erupt into a media circus that brings out every goofball, crackpot, and member of the aluminum foil helmet club, along with a publicity-hungry state attorney general.

I am almost finished. Not sure what I will read next. I have a lot of series which are not too complicated so may stay in that territory for the immediate future.

Never did finish Jesus and John Wayne - I had the Kindle version from the Library; my checkout expired and I could not renew it. Waitlist for the one physical book. It was almost like a textbook so could not devour it, but it is definitely interesting. There are suddenly a lot of books showing up which deal with this subject; I have seen several interviews with authors.