Dangerous book
I'm very good at setting aside a book I am not interested in reading. I set aside dozens over the course of a year and you won't hear about a single one. Tonight I am breaking that track record. A couple of days ago I pulled a few new mysteries off the new acquisitions shelf at the library and have been working my way through them. Last night I opened The Night in Question by Susan Fletcher. It promised to be a light read with a octogenarian detective. (The Thursday Murder Club has started a thing.) This one promised something a little different in that this detective has also lost a leg. I had reservations about that needing to be mentioned on the jacket flap, but authors don't have control over that so I was willing to overlook it. I began to read. [The actual term used on the jacket flap was 'one-legged'. While this doesn't quite move the needle to a slur, it is not great. The preferred terms are 'amputee' or 'person with a limb difference'.]...