If you read mysteries for escape, like I do, you probably watch CSI or Law and Order, or SVU. A newer series written by two authors is one I highly recommend for this kind of action, and it centers around "The Body Farm", a part of the University of Tennessee. Jefferson Bass is the authors' combined name, and the latest, "Devil's Bones" as usual takes you through the backroads and byways of rural Appalachia, while you learn more than you sometimes want to know about body decomposition and its importance in criminal pathology.
Then take a trip up north, to Alaska, to Sue Henry's newest, "Degrees of Separation", and experience vicariously an Alaskan earthquake, feel the snows coming on the wind, and hear the sled dogs barking excitedly as they get ready for another Iditarad race. A biker gang murder, the closeness of a community which feels almost pioneer, and the taste of dog racing all combine to give excitement to quiet backwoods Alaska. This rates up there as "one I couldn't put down and had to read to the finish line".
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