Waiting on WEDNESDAY: December releases

                                                                                                  These are the books I am eager to read that come out this month. The first two are new mysteries in series that I read and the next is from a fun series of graphic novels. The final is a book I hope to find under the Christmas tree to use with my Writing Club students.

Happy Reading!

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FRIDAY: Killer Sudoku and Ghost Sudoku

 In Killer Sudoku, Liza is at a sudoku tournament with old friends (including two of her three suitors) and new. But one by one, the top contenders start dying. Can Liza find a killer before she is the next champ targeted?

In Ghost Sudoku, Liza returns home after a two week secret vacation (to recover from her last adventure) and finds out she is somehow running for mayor. By the time Liza gets out of the race, she knows way more about the local political machine than she ever cared to... and someone is dead.

I enjoyed both mysteries. In Ghost, I figured out the who and the how fairly early, but there were still plenty of clues about why for me to discover. The puzzles are great, too. I got both books from the library, so I had to transfer the puzzles to paper in order to work them, and they range in difficulty from fairly simple to ones that stretch out over several days. Answers are included. My review of other books in the series can be found here.

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FRIDAY: Death by Sudoku

Another Sudoku series. Liza Kelly used to be a mover and shaker in Hollywood, but needed some times to regroup in her personal life, so she went home to Oregon to write sudoku puzzles for the local paper. In the first book, she returns to California for a sudoku tournament, and reconnects with an old friend. His sudden and mysterious death pushes Liza into solving sudoku for something much more serious than a tournament.

I have read the first three books in the series so far and enjoyed all of them. In my opinion, this series requires more background knowledge of sudoku than the other series I reviewed, but the author does a good job of explaining things for newbies.