Killing Time Until Spring

No matter what the groundhog predicted, spring is a long way off – - in fact, a flesh-pinching, bone-chilling, snow-shovelling, hemorrhoid-inducing month and a half at least in Eastern Canada.

Now sufficiently sated with the Olympics (Turined to death, some might say) by today’s closing ceremonies, and with your favourite hammock still buried in backyard drifts, what else is a mystery reader to do, but read?

To help soothe impending cabin fever and ease your way through winter’s remnants and back to your rightful position under a shade tree, here’s a 10-step plan for getting through the rest of winter:

Send to Printer Killing Time Until Spring No matter what the groundhog predicted, spring is a long way off – - in fact, a flesh-pinching, bone-chilling, snow-shovelling, hemorrhoid-inducing month and a half at least in Eastern Canada. Now sufficiently sated with the Olympics (Turined to death, some might say) by today’s closing ceremonies, and with your favourite hammock still buried in backyard drifts, what else is a mystery reader to do, but read? To help soothe impending cabin fever and ease your way through winter’s remnants and back to your rightful position under a shade tree, here’s a 10-step plan for getting through the rest of winter:
	1.	Cell: A Novel by Stephen King
	2.	The Secret Supper: A Novel by Javier Sierra
	3.	False Impression by Jeffrey Archer
	4.	Memory in Death (In Death) by J.D. Robb
	5.	Vices of My Blood: A Detective Murdoch Mystery by Maureen Jennings
	6.	The Wave by Walter Mosley
	7.	Sea Change (Jesse Stone Novels) by Robert B. Parker
	8.	Death Dance: A Novel (Alexandra Cooper Mysteries) by Linda Fairstein
	9.	The Old Wine Shades (Richard Jury Mysteries) by Martha Grimes
	10.	Dead Money by Grant Mccrea
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