Nerve Damage by Peter Abrahams

When sculptor Paul Valois learns that he has only months to live, his thoughts turn more frequently to Delia, his late, beloved wife. While undergoing an experimental treatment for mesothelioma, he aska friend to read his unpublished obit.  It is then he discovers that Delia's death--and life--may have been different than he believed. Debilitated by disease and chemotherapy, he sets out to learn the truth.

This fast paced novel starts out quietly and slowly but quickly takes off as Paul strives to discover what really happened to his wife.  But towards the ends you almost wonder how much is really happening or just inside his psychie.

Before the Poison by Peter Robinson

A widower, Chris Lowndes, returns to his native England after a successful career in Hollywood as a composer of background music for movies. Upon his wife's death, he decided to return to Yorkshire to write a composition to honor his wife's memory. He buys Kilnsgate House, an old mansion deep in the isolated Yorkshire countryside, only viewing it online and relying on his real estate agent to preview the property for him.

Chris finds the house charming, but has a vague sense that the house has been waiting for him as he sees or feels ghostly presences as he tours his home. He conducts inquiries and finds that the house was the scene of a murder in the 1950's. The home's owner, a prominent doctor, was poisoned by his much-younger wife and she was hung for the crime.

More intriguing is that he grew up not far from this house and was about 3 years old when incident happened but finds himself having dreams and memories of the events. 

Chris begins to delve into the background of this tragic event to determine what really happened. His curiosity quickly becomes an obsession to determine if the death of Dr. Fox was really a murder committed by his wife, Grace, or a natural death. As Chris delves deeper into the mystery, he conducts inquiries with locals who knew the Fox family, and searches through archives to find out what really happened. The more he reads and researches this tragedy, the more convinced he is that Grace was innocent and only declared guilty because she was having an affair with a much-younger man.

I found this story fascinating as it was almost a ghost story but more of a historical mystery as the story goes between Chris's time and his imagining the story based on Grace's diary - he discovered while looking through a desk.  This is a quite story of one person's self discovery as well as trying to solve a mystery from his childhood.  From my reading this is a stand-alone and not part of the Inspector Banks series.

Ghost, Interrupted by Sonia Singh

An amateur ghost-hunting team takes on a professional-grade haunting in this pale paranormal novel by the author of Bollywood Confidential and Goddess for Hire. Former stockbroker Scott Wilder recruits Indian-American psychic Anjali Kumar for his San Francisco ghost-hunting firm, the Cold Spot. Soon, the pair picks up the telekinetic drifter Coulter Marshall, whose golden-boy looks get more ink than his talents. The trio lands jobs removing spirits from expensive homes, but Singh's ghosts aren't scary in the least; they're just a pretext for the heroes to zip around the Bay Area and for Scott's ex-girlfriend, parapsychologist Vivica Bates, to re-enter the picture with her own paranormal investigation team. By the time the teams go head-to-head at a military base to impress the Department of Defense by exorcising the spirit of a tortured soldier, the mission is less important than the goofy antics that ensue.

I've read many reviews about this book and her others and was intrigued to try it out.  I enjoy a good chick lit kind of supernatural book.  And this fit the bill.  I liked how the main character was from India and how they main characters interacted and had interesting storylines.  I'll be interested to see if she writes more in this style and try her other books out.  2nd Kindle book so far.  I have to say it makes reading fast for me!

The Right Attitude to Rain by Alexander McCall Smith

3rd book in this delightful series - Isabel Dalhousie Mysteries

Isabel, fortysomething and well to do (her mother left her a sizable inheritance, much of which she donates anonymously to charity), once again finds herself in several ethical dilemmas. Her cousin and her husband, are visiting from Dallas, TX (from her American Mother's side).   They introduce her to an affable and affluent fellow Texan, whose flighty fiancee seems less interested in his character than his cash.  But as we all know there is always 2 sides to every relationship and this one is even more complicated than most.  At the end Isabel just can't tell who is really right so has to let it go. 

During her cousin's visit she discovers that her Sainted American Mother had an affair while in Dallas and never told Isabel's father as she died from cancer not long after.  So the main theme of this book is dealing with relationships and impressions. 

Meanwhile, Isabel must come to terms with her feelings for Jamie, who is 14 years Isabel's junior, but should age really matter when it comes to matters of the heart.  But most of all she will need to deal with her niece Cat, who used to date Jamie.  As Cat does not deal with rejection well.  But the ending of the book is one that makes me want to read further. 

Oh, before I forget.  This was the first book I read on my new Kindle Fire that Jose gave me on 5/4/12.  I'll still be a traditional book reader but am becoming around to the digital age.  It did read really well on the Kindle.