The B Section!!!!

Finally got to the Bs, yeh!!! I started with Honore de Balzac's Cousin Bette. Couldn't finish it because I couldn't stand the thought of referring to a woman as a spinster. She was a supposedly homely woman with attitude, but the reference to her as a spinster or someone to be pitied was too much. So the next book is by a British author using his pseudonym Benjamin Black. His real name is John Banville and he writes mysteries under that name. This book Christine Falls is set in Dublin. It involves a pathologist who does love his drink and who discovers his brother-in-law is involved in something not quite right. His brother-in-law is a beloved doctor who delivers babies. And this is part of the problem that brings the pathologist to realize he can't give up trying to find out what happened in his lab. Good story & unusual. Lots of soap opera, but intirguing to read.