Women on every page
Louise Penny (L) is the international best-selling author of the Three Pines mystery series; I shook her hand at the 2018 Bouchercon mystery readers & writers conference. Hillary Rodham Clinton was Secretary of State in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2013. She won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College vote in the 2016 US presidential campaign. I have not (yet) shaken Clinton's hand. Some books are classics to be kept on our shelf for all time. Some are quick reads for distraction, then passed along. Others are of the moment in which they're written and for that reason alone a must-read. At least for me. Such is the case with the blockbuster book co-authored by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton, published on October 12th. They call it "a cautionary tale" for our times. I call State of Terror a rollicking plot of a political thriller that kept me turning the pages to find out the next twist in the story. And what a story it is — nuclear b