I like to read fiction books that take place in the location I am visiting, so I recently read
Nevada Barr's stand-alone book,
13 1/2. Can you think of a better way to read a book than while eating beignets and drinking coffee at the Cafe Beignet on Royal Street in New Orleans? I originally avoided reading this book because it is a departure from her Anna Pigeon series, and I had been told it was really "different." It is very different.
13 1/2 is a very dark psychological suspense book that I did not want to put down. I
really needed to know how it ended!
At the age of fifteen, Polly Deschamps escapes her abusive childhood by running away to New Orleans. On her first night there, a fortune teller at Jackson Square tells her that she will make something of her life. The fortune teller was right;
