The Reading List

About The Reading List

Spring has finally reached Alderly, and Megan Ridley — book reviewer turned reluctant local fixture — has agreed to judge a town reading contest, expecting nothing more dangerous than strong feelings about literature. Then one of the entrants is gone, leaving behind a carefully chosen list of titles that reads less like a competition entry than a message meant for someone who knows how to read closely. Megan does. As she works through the books a dead man left her, she begins to suspect the list was never about the contest at all — and that the truth has been hiding in plain sight, between the lines, the way the best mysteries always do. Wry, bookish, and impossible to set down, this second Megan Ridley adventure is a love letter to careful readers and the secrets stories quietly keep