An Axe for January

 We are getting through the month very quickly, but I thought I would give you a reading suggestion. As you may know, I read "seasonally", by this I mean I try as much as possible to read books set during the time of year I am reading them. It's a method like any other to get through my reading list. Anyway, you probably know I love Ed McBain's 87th Precinct series. I try to read a novel of the series at least once every year. There is at least one of its novels set in January, titled Ax or Axe. Because someone gets murdered with an axe. If you think you need to fight gloom and doom with gloom and doom, as a sort of literary vaccine, this is for you. It's suitably dark and it's a short, gripping read.