Here, from our friend Liz Morgan, are this months great reads! 56 Days by Catherine Ryan Howard So my biblio-brain has been waiting for a COVID-based thriller being that we’ve lived the actual horror story of it all for over a year-and y’all - I think this one is it. In 56 Days, Clara meets an impossibly perfect guy in a supermarket line (or queue in this case) in Dublin inthe early days of the pandemic. (Side note, watch enough Dateline and you KNOW most supermarket meet cute guys are always NOT perfect). They date for a few weeks and when lockdown starts, they make an oxytocin fueled impulse decision to move in together for the pandemic. Or WAS it impulsive? As the story unfolds we find neither is who they said they were, secrets come tumbling out and it all ends up with a dead body in the shower. Lots of tense moments, all made more surreal in that the all too relatable pandemic times are the backdrop. I loved it! 5 out of 5 vaccinations from me PUB DATE August 17 Ghosts by Dolly Aldertson Ghosts is the debut novel by author Dolly Alderston, a London-based pop culture writer.