Read All About It! About what? About Everything!

"With American Thanksgiving just around the corner, it's getting near to present-buying time. What five criminally good books would you recommend and for whom?" By Catriona

I've recently read all of these and loved every one. Loved some of them - wait, no, all of them - so much I wondered why I bothered. That feeling is the essence of bittersweet - it's the best bit of reading and the worst bit of writing.

There's cozy, hard-boiled, literary and classic here. And a master-class on how to start...