It is no mystery to people who know me even a little bit, that I can read everything in the form of book, phone book included, if I am desperate, but I definitely prefer mystery books. If I read one book of an author I like, I will check out from the library every single other book by same author, as long as supplies last. Sometimes, in chronological order, but it doesn’t make any sense if I started from the latest 
. It makes me instantly open my New York guide book or Google, whatever results in better photos, and read more.
Last fascination- [tag]Linda Fairstein[/tag]. And, believe me, these are not ordinary mystery books. I am reading a lot of comments about her works, none mentioning what I am finding the most fascinating about them. From “Bad blood” describing Saint Hogs, through Smallpox Hospital on [tag]Roosevelt Island[/tag] in “The Deadhouse”, and [tag]Edgar Allan Poe[/tag]‘s short episode in New York in “Entombed”, Cloisters in “Bone vault “- I am learning incredible stories, places and historical anecdotes.
I wonder, as the histories are not necessary part of the book stories, why all this interesting material get into the books? Is author doing the research with the story in mind, or she finds the “pearls” by accident and research out of her own curiosity?
Anyway, I am finishing off “The Deadhouse” tonight, already wondering what I am going to learn from “Death dance”.