The novelist Maile Meloy has a useful recipe for living through the Trump era: detective fiction.
Meloy writes: "Detective stories are about the fantasy of exposing and containing evil. The villains lie shamelessly, the brilliant detective catches them in their lies, and justice is done. Nothing, these days, is more satisfying than that."
When you read "Original Sin," you can imagine the killer you're pursuing is Donald Trump--and you can expect, with certainty, that Trump will "go down."
Meloy recommends the following mystery writers: John le Carre (the first two novels), Philip Pullman (Sally Lockhart), and Kate Atkinson ("Case Histories").
I have my stable (Rankin, Rendell, PD James, Leon, McDermid, Lehane, Connelly), but I'll add: Ed McBain, Ann Cleeves, and the fun, frothy Carrie Bradshaw-ish murder tales of Hendricks/Pekkanen.
These are "getting me through."
P.S. Hughes, Mina, Abbott, McManus, Waters, Paretsky, Silva, Coben, Lippman, Tey, Jewell, Grisham, Ware.....
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