BOOKS AND CHINOOKS

I went into this one blind, and I was immediately caught up in the suspense. Agatha sets out on her six-hour train trip with some secrets we aren’t knowledgeable of initially. She is supposed to be working on her novel, but that plan soon derails when death and mayhem ensue amongst the passengers and staff. The atmospheric writing has the characters trapped on a stationary train in the Canadian countryside amid a raging snowstorm, with no wifi or outside connections. That’s

Yael goes by a pseudonym on her podcast as Elle, and she believes her new podcast editor lives in NYC and his name is Kevin. Kevin uses his middle name, Ravi, in non-professional areas of his life, and he actually lives in Portland, where Yael lives. They have an unfortunate first meeting in real life, and then he ends up volunteering at her queer book club at the high school where she works. Yael and Ravi are both part of the LGBTQ+ community. They start falling for each oth